| Commoditisation threatens ASIC business
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2007-05-02 |
| The tumultuous ASIC business is undergoing a shakeout amid soaring design, verification and mask costs, coupled with the economic realities in the market |
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| LSI to scrap ASIC line, sell DSP unit
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2006-03-09 |
| LSI Logic Corp. has announced that it will cease development of its RapidChip ASIC platform technology and said it would sell its DSP unit |
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| Fujitsu to ship structured ASIC built using Cadence
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2005-08-03 |
| Cadence Design Systems Inc. and Fujitsu Microelectronics America Inc. (FMA) will ship initial production volumes of structured ASIC using Cadence Encounter digital IC implementation this month |
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| Open-Silicon boosts ASIC processor performance
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2010-11-18 |
| Open-Silicon Inc. adopts Cadence Silicon Realisation product line to tape out a 2.4GHz ASIC processor |
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| Altera, Synopsys team to offer Nios II for ASIC designs
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2007-11-15 |
| Utilising its core competencies in design-for-reuse, IP packaging methodologies and design flows, Synopsys will provide a configurable, fully synthesizable version of the Altera Nios II processor core optimised for ASIC implementation |
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| Cadence, IBM team up to accelerate ASIC design
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2006-11-15 |
| Cadence Design Systems Inc. has signed an agreement with IBM to incorporate Encounter RTL Compiler global synthesis and Cadence Encounter Test technologies into IBM's 65nm ASIC design kit |
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| 45nm ASIC integrates embedded DRAM, SOI tech
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2007-08-01 |
| IBM Corp. has developed what it claims as the world?s first ASIC based on 45nm tech that combines embedded DRAM and silicon-on-insulator technologies |
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| NEC closes 8inch line, exits structured ASIC sector
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2007-02-26 |
| NEC Electronics Corp. announced last week a three-year restructuring plan that included the exit from the structured ASIC and single-chip cell phone sectors. The company, which is also terminating 600 engineers, will consolidate its nine front-end manufacturing lines in Japan to four |
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| ADI to sell ASIC business to Ikanos
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2006-01-19 |
| Analog Devices Inc. has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Ikanos Communications to sell its FUSIV network processor and ADSL ASIC product line |
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| India's ASIC market can grow more than 35
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2006-07-27 |
| A study commissioned by the ISA has said that the ASIC market could grow by more than 35 per cent, but growth will likely be slowed by rising use of FPGAs |
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| KaiSemi to showcase FPGA-to-ASIC tool
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2011-03-25 |
| KaiSemi is set to showcase its innovative IP synthesis tool that automatically converts any FPGA netlist directly to an ASIC netlist with the push of a button, at the Embedded Systems Conference |
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| Implement an FPGA ASIC prototype
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2008-06-16 |
| ASIC designers think they can best meet their requirements by prototyping the functional equivalents of their designs as FPGAs |
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| Faraday announces range of 0.135m ASIC productions
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2005-11-28 |
| Faraday announced wafer-out for volume production of three 0.135m customer projects. Faraday 0.135m ASIC and structured ASIC technologies lead a practice that enables a shorter, more predictable design cycle while creating reusable IP |
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| Open Silicon gains low-power ASIC design patent
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2011-09-22 |
| Open-Silicon gains patent for PowerMAX-based low power ASIC design process that adds design-specific library augmentation, back biasing, power recovery and custom leakage signoff |
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| Process tech eases ASIC conversion
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2010-03-17 |
| Tier Logic Inc. has revealed a few details about a technology that employs a new processing change to build FPGA and ASIC products on a single die |
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| India's SCL turns to ASIC design services
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2005-10-12 |
| Semiconductor Complex Ltd (SCL), a government-owned fabrication facility, has turned to ASIC design services in recent times, and has formed a business relationship with an undisclosed U.S. fabless semiconductor company |
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| PLDA, Rapid Bridge join hands to produce ASIC solution
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2006-07-27 |
| PLDApplications (PLDA) and Rapid Bridge Systems have announced an agreement to pool their PCIe proficiency to produce an ASIC solution |
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| Atmel's ASIC biz up for sale
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2009-02-06 |
| Atmel is pursuing alternatives for its ASIC business and related manufacturing assets, including a potential sale |
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| Ikanos acquires ADI's network processor, ADSL ASIC product lines
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2006-02-22 |
| Ikanos Communications has completed the acquisition of the network processor and ADSL ASIC product lines from Analog Devices Inc |
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| Open-Silicon selects MIPS' processor core for ASIC
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2006-11-22 |
| MIPS Technologies Inc. has announced that Open-Silicon Inc. has selected the MIPS32 24KEc Pro processor core to power advanced custom ASIC solutions for complex SoCs. Open-Silicon has developed a business model that simplifies IP selection and integration for ASIC designers |
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| Mentor provides Platform Express to LSI's ASIC program
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2006-01-23 |
| Mentor Graphics has announced that it has joined the LSI RapidChip Platform ASIC partner program with its Platform Express solution |
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| Fujitsu rolls 65nm ASIC, SoC process
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2005-09-23 |
| Enabling the next wave of semiconductors, Fujitsu Ltd has rolled out its 65nm process technology for advanced ASIC and system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs |
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| Open-Silicon, Magma team on ASIC school in India
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2005-08-29 |
| Pushed to the brink by a severe shortage of IC design engineers in India, Open-Silicon is teaming up with Magma Design Automation to start an ASIC design school |
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| Execs tackle ASIC, FPGA design challenges
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2009-09-22 |
| The ASIC versus FPGA debate took an interesting turn, as executives from two design tool firms offered duelling keynote address on the virtues of and challenges facing FPGA-based and ASICs-based SoCs designs |
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| OpenCores aims for 'super-low-cost' ASIC design
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2011-05-18 |
| OpenCores, a community website for the development of hardware IP cores as open source, has set up a donation website to gather funds for an open-source ASIC based on the OpenRISC processor |
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| Structured ASIC market remains significant, says researcher
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2006-07-26 |
| A Gartner Dataquest researcher said that, LSI Logic's exit from the structured ASIC market prompted many analysts to downgrade their market predictions, but the market for structured ASICs remains significant |
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| ASIC design starts drop 22% in '09
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2009-04-01 |
| FPGAs will further displace ASICs in 2009 due to the global economic crisis, according to Gartner. |
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| Auto industry prompts need for new ASIC methodology
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2008-06-05 |
| The automotive industry is pushing for fewer defects in chip designs. |
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| Timing analyzer puts ASIC-like functionality in FPGAs
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2005-08-16 |
| Actel Corp. rolls out a static timing analysis engine that brings ASIC functionality into the FPGA world |
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| ST deploys Synopsys compiler for ASIC design flow
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2007-02-15 |
| STMicroelectronics has deployed Synopsys Inc.'s Design Compiler topographical technology in its 90nm and 65nm ASIC design flow to eliminate design iterations and streamline the overall design cycle |
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