NUMEM & IC’Alps collaborate to develop an ultra-low-power SOC for Sensor and AI applications

Sunnyvale, USA – Meylan, FRANCE – May 29, 2024

NUMEM – a leader in high-performance Memory IP Cores and Memory Chip/Chiplet based on its patented NuRAM (MRAM) and SmartMem technologies, and IC’ALPS – a leader in ASIC/SOC design and supply chain management, have pooled their expertise to meet the challenge of developing an ambitious integrated circuit with RISC-V processors, 2 MBytes of NuRAM and a DSP/AI Custom Datapath Accelerator. The Custom SOC was developed in an advanced technology node.

This SoC has been designed and implemented to highlight the Numem high-performance, low power Memory subsystem with a RISC V Processor and AI Accelerator for ultra-low power applications. It has been developed through a close collaboration between Numem and IC ALPS.

The physical implementation of this integrated circuit was made in a secure space (isolated location, network, and servers, encrypted exchanges, etc.) to meet with the stringent protection of sensitive data required by this program.

“We were very pleased with the collaboration and quality of service provided by IC’ALPS which made this on-time tape out possible and first time functional silicon” said Jack Guedj, CEO of NUMEM. NuRAM is 2-3x smaller than SRAM and boast significant power reduction due to the NuRAM memory subsystem’s low-leakage power”, he added. Our patented SOC Compute in Memory enables to achieve significant gain in performance, endurance and dynamic power.

Lucille Engels, COO of IC’ALPS indicated: “The challenges were numerous including: architecture, power domains, protection of the sensitive data, run times pushing improvement of EDA flow and the pressure of the shuttle deadline”.

NUMEM and IC’ALPS intend to extend their partnership to serve new customer SOC projects– feel free to contact us.

Contacts Numem

Contacts IC’Alps