Startup tapes out MRAM-based MCU demo for IoT

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LONDON , Jan. 05, 2018 –  A semiconductor intellectual-property startup in Grenoble, France, has taped out a magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM)-based microcontroller targeting battery-powered Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable devices.

The startup, eVaderis, provides CMOS-compatible nonvolatile-memory-based IP products such as memory blocks, logic cells, and memory and processor subsystems. The company says it has successfully demonstrated a fully functioning design platform, including software, system, and memory IP, for an ultralow-power MCU in Beyond Semiconductor's BA2x product line.

The tapeout is a demonstration vehicle to showcase eVaderis' "proficiency in disruptive, nonvolatile embedded IP design and flow for low-power, digital devices," Virgile Javerliac, deputy CEO and head of technology and marketing at eVaderis, said in an interview with EE Times. "We are not developing the MRAM technology itself, but the architecture based on it."

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