April 20, 2026 -
The flash storage solution is the first complete IP set to include UFS 5.0, UniPro 3.0, and M PHY v6.0—and it delivers double the speed of UFS 4.0.
By Duane Benson, allaboutcircuits.com
Synopsys broke onto the AI flash storage scene with a recent IP announcement. Synopsys is enabling a new generation of high-speed, low-power, high-efficiency storage for mobile edge-AI devices with this new IP set. The IP stack covers UFS 5.0, UniPro 3.0, and M‑PHY v6.0 storage and communications specifications. Synopsys has verified the performance with successful tape-out on TSMC’s N2/N2P process nodes.
Flash memory capability has not kept up with other parts of edge-AI computing systems. As such, it has become a system-level constraint. The new protocols address this inequality by upping the data rates and improving error correction.