Fujitsu Microelectronics America provides high-quality, reliable semiconductor products and services for the networking (metro, enterprise, access and wireless), automotive, consumer, industrial, security and other markets throughout the Americas.

To meet customer requirements of the complexities of deep sub-100nm process technology and compressed time-to-market schedules, Fujitsu has developed an Integrated Device Manufacturing business model. IDM provides specific services - ranging from flexible design methodologies to a comprehensive set of IPs - as part of development alliances tailored to customer needs.

Fujitsu has developed a highly integrated system-on-chip that fully complies with the IEEE 802.16 2004 WiMAX standard. As a founding and board member of the WiMAX Forum™, Fujitsu actively supports the standards development and compliance programs that are essential to successful broadband wireless deployment.

The fully integrated MAC and PHY SoC was designed to support operations in frequencies ranging from 2GHz to 11GHz in both licensed and license-exempt bands. This SoC can be used for both base-station and subscriber-station applications.

The Fujitsu SoC is also suitable for use in WiMAX systems supporting a variety of wireless broadband connections, including high-bandwidth metropolitan-area networks, backhaul networks for cellular base stations, and backhaul connections to the Internet backbone for WiFi hotspots.

The Fujitsu 10Gbps Ethernet switch chip family supports twelve 10Gigabit ports, which operate at wire speed and provide on-chip XAUI and CX4 interfaces. The switch provides 240Gbps of non-blocking, low-latency performance. It relies on a high-speed, multi-port, shared memory buffer and proprietary scheduling algorithm to resolve the memory-bandwidth bottleneck common to shared memory switches. Here are its key applications and features.

Applications

• Enterprise
• Data centers
• Metro networks
• Grid computing and server clusters

Key features

• 12-port 10Gbps Ethernet layer-2 switch chip
• Support for VLAN, QoS (802.1p), multicast and MSTP (802.1S)
• On-chip high throughput buffet memory
• Integrated XAUI/CX-4/KX-4 SERDES
• Capability of driving copper cable up to 25 meters
• 802.3ae PAUSE support

Taking the next step in fabrication process improvement, Fujitsu offers world-class 65nm CMOS technology for ASIC and COT customers. Fujitsu's 65nm technology has shrunk gates by 25% when compared to the 90nm technology. This highly competitive 65nm technology features options for maximizing performance and minimizing power consumption. The technology thus suits both performance-oriented applications and mobile applications that combine superlative performance with long battery life.

Features include: the 30nm long gate, only 75% the size of the CS100 transistors; 20 to 30% faster performance than the 90nm generation; transistor density doubled compared with the 90nm generation; and SRAM cell area reduced 50% compared with the 90nm generation.

Fujitsu will start tape-out acceptance for the 65nm technology early this year.