1) Tape-out to First Silicon
Recognising the customers’ needs for quicker time-to-market, we place very high priority on having “first-time right” prototypes.

2) Design Support
In our quest for “first-time right” prototypes, a dedicated Design Support team provides, amongst other services, extensive pre-tape-out activities such as IP, library declaration and checks and Design Rule checks.

After a prototype is completed and shipped to the customer, our engineering team closely follows its progress, in order to continuously learn from new products and improve on subsequent tape-outs.

3) Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) and Multi-Layer-Reticle (MLR)
The MPW & MLR services are meant to provide designers/ customers with the opportunity to verify their designs not only with swift turnaround but also with the added advantage of lowest possible prototyping costs & maximum flexibility. They are available to our customers either at SSMC or our motherfabs.

In each of the MPWs, several products are placed in the same mask set.

For MLRs, multiple layers of the same product are grouped intelligently into the same mask layer. This reduces the physical number of masks needed and lowers the total mask costs. MLRs do not combine databases of other customers and so have a flexible tape-out schedule.