Presentation of Ophir Nadir, VP R D and Engineering, ChipX

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Standard Cell ASIC
Structured ASIC
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1. Fast Time to Market:
2. Very Low NRE:
3. Low Risk:
4. ASIC Performance:
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Prototypes in 6-7 weeks from hand-off
As little as $25K
Pre-built IP, clock trees, analog
Over 300MHz in 0.13
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ASIC Footprint
IP Phy Backend
Internal Phy
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Remainder Of Pkg Signal Pins
ASIC Footprint
Soft IP
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OnePass™ System
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ASIC RTL
Customer
Domain
Pinout Translator
Linter
and Checker
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OnePass
Library
Wrapper
Synthesis
FPGA
Library
Gate Level Checker
Report
Final RTL
ASIC
Constraints
FPGA flow
System Test
Check RTL w/OnePass
RTL Checker Tool
Execute ASIC Flow
w/out Optimization
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Constraint
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Handoff
to ChipX
Generate Report:
- Max frequency
- Gate count
- Slice fitting
- Power
- STA critical paths
ChipX
Domain
Customer can
Upload RTL to
ChipX and
report will be
emailed
Automatically
Within 24 hrs.
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One flow for both FPGA and ASIC development
All ASIC requirements generated during flow
Automatic pre-processing of design by ChipX to
provide vital information to customer. Operation
can be repeated as often as needed
Most timing issues addressed up front
Guarantee that design will fit in ASIC
Short backend processing time – Two to Four
weeks from final RTL to Tape Out.
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