Monolithic Technology Systems
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MoSys, Inc. is a USA
United States
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 company based in California
California
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, that develops serial chip-to-chip communications solutions and system-on-chip (SoC) designs. MoSys designs, develops, markets and licenses its differentiated embedded memory and high-speed parallel and serial interface (I/O) intellectual property
Intellectual property
Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

 (IP) to fabless semiconductor companies, integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) and foundries that incorporate, or embed, its IP on complex integrated circuits, such as SoCs for applications in the network, consumer/graphics, computing and storage markets. In 2010, MoSys expanded its business model and market opportunity by to become a fabless semiconductor company
Fabless semiconductor company
A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing the fabrication or "fab" of the devices to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry...

 with the development of its new Bandwidth Engine product family.

As of December 2010, MoSys technology has been shipped in over 370 million devices, including home entertainment and graphics applications, mobile consumer devices, and networking and storage equipment. For example, the Nintendo Wii game console uses MoSys 1T-SRAM memory IP.

Products

  • Bandwidth Engine integrated circuit (IC): is a high-density serial memory device which combines MoSys' patented 1T-SRAM high-density memory technology with 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps) SerDes interface (I/O) technology.
  • 1T-SRAM intellectual property (IP): high-density alternative to embedded DRAM.
  • SerDes
    SerDes
    A Serializer/Deserializer is a pair of functional blocks commonly used in high speed communications to compensate for limited input/output. These blocks convert data between serial data and parallel interfaces in each direction...

     and DDR
    DDR
    DDR may refer to:In entertainment:*Dance Dance Revolution, a music video game series by Konami*DDR , a Norwegian rock band singing in German.*DDR , a Greenlandic punk band singing in Danish.In organizations:...

    IP: silicon-proven PHYs support a wide range of protocols at advanced process nodes.
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