Novelics’ coolOTP™ is the world’s only full-speed, readable, one-time-programmable memory available in pure bulk CMOS. It is commonly used in microcontrollers in the automotive industry. It is also widely used in embedded keys used for encryption and digital rights management in such products as smart cards, cell phones, set-top boxes and portable media players.
Like all Novelics embedded memory IP, coolOTP can be customized via the Novelics MemQuest™ memory compiler, a Web-based on-line tool suite that enables the SoC designer to specify and implement custom memories in a matter of minutes.
coolOTP Features:
- Based on patent-pending bit cell and sensing system architecture
- Implemented with unmodified standard CMOS logic process Processor speed access time (fastest in the industry by 100X)
- Active and standby power, similar to SRAM architectures
- Most stable bit cell, sensing and read circuitry in the industry
- Write programmability by external source or embedded charge pump
- Best-in-class active power, leakage current, density, and speed
- Supports a wide range of clock duty cycles
- Near zero setup time
- Two-dimensional as well as linear arrays
- Optimized for leakage control on a block-by-block basis
- Selectable power, speed, and aspect ratio, times programmable
- Field programmable
- Offered in major foundry leading-edge process nodes
coolOTP Benefits:
- First OTP that can function as at-speed program store
- First OTP that can not be reverse-engineered using electron scanning microscope techniques for superior security for encryption keys
- No bit cell instability issues that exist in all competitive technologies