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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
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