Suite Solutions: Aptos Semiconductor Powers Up VDSM Tools to Craft SRAMs, 'Network-Centric' Processor

摘要

How many days a week can you play golf?" asked Lowell Turriff after retiring from Cypress Semiconductor five years ago. Finding that a life of leisure wasn't all it was cracked up to be, in 1993 Turriff formed Aptos Semiconductor of San Jose to create an array of proprietary ICs to serve systems markets requiring very high speed devices. Today, Aptos supplies cost-effective solutions with associative processors, very fast low-power SRAMs, and specialty memories. The Aptos design team pursues the vias and leaves the fairways—at least on weekdays—to the duffers.