Novelics’ patented designs include breakthroughs in the fundamental methods of implementing memory circuits, including new patented bit cell and sense amplifier circuits that significantly reduce semiconductor area, increase access times and lower power consumption.

Consumer and commercial electronics products will benefit from Novelics memory designs by:

• reducing the size and weight of devices by reducing the size of the battery needed to power the device and reducing the need for heat dissipation components;
• reducing the costs of processing chips by reducing the semiconductor area required for memory by up to 60 percent and eliminating the extra mask layers and special processing steps required by competing technologies;
• allowing more powerful features with faster memory access time compared to the industry standard;
• significantly increasing battery life through decreased system power consumption.

Novelics offers all memory technologies needed for semiconductor design in a common Web-based specification and circuit generation tool called MemQuest™. MemQuest allows a variety of memory formats, including SRAM-6T and SRAM-1T, high-speed cache, ROM, One-Time-Programmable (OTP), and flash, to be designed using the same tool.

MemQuest allows designers to customize the various attributes of the memory such as size, shape, area, access time, power consumption and leakage. MemQuest allows Novelics’ customers to design custom memory in a matter of hours, instead of the typical months of development time, reducing time-to-market and production costs. MemQuest concurrently optimizes the desired specifications and automatically generates the simulation models and physical circuit design.