Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: LSI Europe | Subject: RapidChip Integrator2
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 27 May 2005
Slices provide an alternative for FPGAs
LSI Logic has added two new slices to its RapidChip Integrator2 platform ASIC family that provide both ASIC and FPGA designers with a low-risk, low-cost option for high-volume applications
With zero mask charges, nonrecurring engineering (NRE) charges of less than $50,000 and a 100,000-unit volume piece part price of $6, this new class of RapidChip slices offers the ultimate in cost-efficient system design for industrial, medical, defence and high-end consumer applications. Rich Wawrzyniak, Semico Research's Senior Analyst for ASICs and SoCs sees the new RapidChip offering as a significant benefit to designers seeking to gain traction in emerging markets.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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'By eliminating mask tooling charges for entry level platform ASIC solutions, LSI Logic is providing its RapidChip customers with the ability to quickly introduce innovative designs in high potential growth markets while meeting their cost and performance targets'.
LSI Logic is using a simple accelerated design flow to offer the new RapidChip Integrator2 Platform ASIC slices at the lowest possible cost.
In addition to a low piece-part price and low NRE charges, an evaluation version of the LSI Logic RapidWorx toolkit and the Amplify RapidChip physical synthesis tool, jointly developed with Synplicity, are being provided to designers at no additional fee.
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'With these new low-cost RapidChip Integrator2 slices, designers of complex SoCs have access to significant savings in design and development costs', said Yousef Khalilollahi, Director RapidChip Marketing, LSI Logic.
'This unique offering provides ASIC-like density, performance and power consumption at a price level that customers can take to production virtually risk-free, presenting them with exceptional opportunities to capture market share in their industries'.
The new RapidChip Integrator2 slices provide an alternative for FPGAs used in the consumer and industrial markets.
These slices, selling for $6 per part in volume, contain more gates and memories in a plastic quad flatpack (PQFP) package than reprogrammable architectures and are ideal for designers developing products that depend on inexpensive volume solutions in these markets.
The RapidChip Integrator2 slices are being offered with 0.5 million gates of logic and 0.9Mbit of embedded matrix RAM or with 0.85 million gates of logic and 1.5Mbit of embedded matrix RAM configurations.
The matrix RAM technology provides architectural flexibility for memory in high throughput designs and consists of a matrix of many dual-port 18Kbit memory blocks (up to 84 in one slice).
These memories can be easily configured as individual memories or combined to form larger memories.
This approach provides shallow and wide memories or narrow and deep memories that can be configured to fit design needs.
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