eASIC Debuts New ASIC-in-a-Box Design Kits

eASIC Corporation, a fabless semiconductor company with a focus on providing NEW ASIC devices, has reportedly launched two ASIC-in-a-Box design kits that allows engineers who are unfamiliar with ASIC design to now complete designs at a fraction of the cost and time.

“Our NEW ASIC-in-a-Box design kits dispel the myth that ASICs are difficult, risky and expensive to design,” commented Jasbinder Bhoot, vice president of marketing at eASIC Corporation, in a release.

“eASIC has completed over 100 tape outs and delivered over 100 prototype designs in less than two years using the flow and tools that are now available in the ASIC-in-Box kits. Our new design kits make ASIC design affordable, accessible and achievable for everyone,” added Bhoot.

eASIC's Nextreme Series is a new generation of ASIC devices that is said to reduce the cost and risk of doing ASIC design. They are uniquely constructed to help simplify design, verification and silicon processing steps within the overall flow. eASIC mentioned that such flexibility allows designers to focus their effort mainly on achieving their desired functionality and timing and not on arduous complex tasks such as power mesh design, signal integrity, test insertion, clock insertion, STA, ATPG, formal verification and LVS/DRC as they do with traditional standard cell ASICs.

The NEW ASIC-in-a-Box design kits provide software and documentation for completing and implementing Nextreme chip designs, and also deliver board design and debug guidelines for designing systems that incorporate Nextreme devices.

As stated, the NEW ASIC-in-a-Box Design Kits contains eASIC’s eTools software suite that includes easy to use utilities for configuring PLLs/clocks, assigning pins/pads, generating memories and post placement configuration and DRC; Magma DA’s Blast RTL software for performing synthesis and placement; Documentation and design tutorials to accelerate design implementation; JTAG programming cable for configuration and debug and technical support website access; PNC (News - Alert) number for 20 prototypes.

Depending on their preferred choice for handoff deliverables, designers can choose from one of two design kits, said the company.

The Nextreme NEW ASIC-in-a-Box Design Kits are said to be available with immediate effect.