Customized IC Solutions for
Military and Space Applications

Trusted Semiconductor Solutions' Structured ASIC Solutions

Our customers have indicated that there is a need for a cost-effective, fast time to market alternative to conventional digital ASIC’s. The non-recurring cost for foundry masks has reached a point in the military marketplace where it exceeds the recurring manufacturing revenue due to the low production volumes. Our objective is to provide a series of alternatives to enable the lowest cost of ownership for implementing a digital ASIC.

Cost-Effectiveness Approaches

• Development of a Structure ASIC using ViASIC technology
• Current design engagements with IBM 90nm version of the technology
• This technology can be implemented with between one and four layers
• In development of a 90nm SOI version of this technology for Space Applications
• Use of Multi-Project Production runs
• Our company executes customer specific designs
• These designs generally do not take the entire mask reticle area
• We attempt to coordinate other customers to utilize these production runs
• Implementing a pre-placed design resource array
• This is effectively a gate array using modern technology and design IP blocks
• Allows a prepositioning of resources on a mask set with only the need to modify the metal and via layers to route the design
• Shared design physical design kits, libraries, and tools
• This enables a more efficient use of these expensive state of the art resources
• We enable customers to connect to our tools to oversee the technical progress on our ASIC programs