S3 Semiconductors joins Arm Approved design partner program

Embedded World, Nuremberg, Germany – February 28, 2018- S3 Semiconductors, a global supplier of Mixed-Signal and RF Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) solutions, is pleased to announce that they have joined the Arm® Approved design partner program. This program provides customers who wish to adopt Arm embedded solutions a trusted and accelerated path to full custom ASIC design.

“S3 Semiconductors is delighted to be joining the Arm Approved design partner program,” said Darren Hobbs, Director of Marketing and Strategy, S3 Semiconductors. “We have been working with and integrating Arm IP into our custom chip designs for more than 20 years now, and see this step as an acknowledgment of this on-going strong partnership. A truly complementary partnership: Arm IP together with its robust ecosystem of embedded system developers is a valuable ingredient in the embedded mixed-signal ASICs that we develop and supply to our customers.”

“The Arm Approved design partner program’s extensive network of design houses enables the acceleration of custom ASIC delivery,” said Ciaran Dunne, vice president and general manager, Partner Enablement Group, Arm. “S3 Semiconductor’s mixed-signal and RF integration expertise and established supply chain play a valuable role in rapidly delivering new Arm-based embedded ASICs.”

S3 Semiconductors and Arm will both be exhibiting and delivering talks at Embedded World from February 27^th to March 1^st.

About S3 Semiconductors

S3 Semiconductors designs advanced mixed-signal chips and manage every aspect of supplying production devices to its customers using some of the world’s most advanced semiconductor production facilities. With more than 20 years’ experience designing advanced analog and digital circuitry for hundreds of customers in every major region, S3 Semiconductors delivers a new breed of design-centric semiconductor supplier capable of optimizing its designs for every customer, yet achieving cost economies not thought possible with custom chips designs until now. S3 Semiconductors has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, with offices in Cork, the US, Portugal, the Czech Republic, along with representatives worldwide. Visit www.s3semi.com