Laurence Marchini, Editor, writes:
We see from your search that you're looking for information on the term "ASIC market", and we have a large number of manufacturers' news releases and technical articles here on Electronicstalk which will be of interest. Let me be your guide.
Start with the news release Flash-based FPGAs put freeze on power consumption from Actel Europe, which we summarised at the time by saying "Flash-based FPGA family consumes 4x less static power than its nearest competitor and delivers more than 5x the battery life of the current leading PLDs in portable applications". A few weeks before, we featured the news release Standard cell ASICs set to exploit market void from AMI Semiconductor: "A flexible 130nm standard cell technology offers a low-cost high-performance ASIC solution for broad-based applications".
In May 2005, we covered the news from eASIC Corp concerning its Easy eFlow - take a look at Tools speed the way to structured ASIC silicon which says: "eASIC Corp, Magma Design Automation and Flextronics Semiconductor have combined to release the complete Easy eFlow tools suite for the FlexASIC product family".
Take a look also at the news release from Synplicity, FPGA software supports switch to structured ASICs, as well as Platform ASICs to gain physical synthesis from Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe, and Alliance to target Chinese ASIC market from ChipX.
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Report predicts big demand for power over Ethernet (June 2004)
Shipments of power-over-Ethernet enabling ICs are forecast to grow at a 55% compound annual growth rate through 2007, according to a new report
Rapid adoption for ASIC synthesis technology (February 2004)
Synplicity has reported rapid adoption of its ASIC synthesis technology, including a doubling of ASIC synthesis licence revenues during 2003
Software rolls out ahead of latest FPGAs (February 2004)
Altera has begun delivering design support for its Stratix II family of FPGAs to more than 20,000 customers
Synplicity poised for growth (February 2004)
Synplicity has published financial results for the fiscal quarter and year ended 31st December 2003
Stronger quarter for Synplicity (October 2003)
Synplicity has published its financial results for the quarter ended 30th September 2003
Physical synthesis aids structured ASIC design (October 2003)
NEC Electronics and Synplicity are expanding their joint development and marketing agreement
DSP solutions grab lion's share of camera market (July 2003)
Texas Instruments reckons it has secured the majority of the industry's top 10 digital consumer point-and-shoot camera manufacturers as customers for its signal processing products
Synplicity meets financial objectives (July 2003)
Synplicity has revealed its financial results for the quarter ended 30th June 2003
Progressive Refinement for Israeli ASICs (June 2003)
Avnet ASIC Israel has selected the Monterey planning, prototyping and implementation tool suite for its latest SoC designs
FPGA design flow runs from IP to the PCB (May 2003)
Mentor Graphics has developed a comprehensive FPGA design flow that expands traditional FPGA tools with new technologies to address emerging challenges of complex FPGA designs
Arrays aim for mid-volume ASIC market (May 2003)
AccelArray technology aims to meet customer requirements for low cost and minimal design cycles using Fujitsu's proven design and process technology leadership
Physical synthesis to incorporate prototyping (April 2003)
Synplicity is to develop ASIC physical synthesis technology which brings together the benefits of physical synthesis and silicon virtual prototyping into one tool environment
FPGAs put 90nm process to competitive advantage (April 2003)
A new family of programmable chips aims to propel programmable logic devices further into high-volume, low-cost applications traditionally served by custom chips with fixed architectures
Silicon Logic Engineering provides ASIC design aid (January 2003)
Silicon Logic Engineering is to work with Texas Instruments to develop complex ASICs for customers in the wireless and wireline infrastructure, and high performance computing markets
Lepiane takes on the world (January 2003)
Lightspeed Semiconductor has appointed Christian Lepiane as Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Bigger faster ASICs are a speciality (November 2002)
The Texas Instruments ASIC team is targeting the largest and most complex products by leveraging its advanced semiconductor process technology, embedded IP, and advanced packaging and design tools
EDA guru Rincon takes up fellowship (November 2002)
Ann Rincon, the 2002 EDA Woman of the Year, has joined AMI Semiconductor as engineering fellow
Lauro goes onboard at Chip Express (August 2002)
George Lauro has joined the Board of Directors at Chip Express