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News Release from: Accent | Subject: Highway to Silicon
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 April 2003
Fast route to low-volume ASICs
Highway to Silicon is a novel programme which will be of interest to companies who either have low-volume silicon manufacturing requirements or need assistance to interface their chosen foundry.
In March 2003, Accent celebrated its tenth year of successful operation Over this last decade, Accent, one of the leading design houses in Europe, has grown into a very successful company with unparalleled expertise
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 Jun 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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With its 120 people, of whom more than 100 engineers, Accent has been providing services for complex SoC design to a wide range of customers.
The company serves the deep-submicron, high-complexity SoC design market down to 0.13um for telecomms, automotive, consumer, medical and industrial applications.
Building on this experience, Accent is now introducing "Highway to Silicon", a new and complementary programme, which will be of interest to companies who either have low-volume silicon manufacturing requirements or need assistance to interface their chosen foundry.
For "Highway to Silicon", Accent has identified two new types of customer requirements: companies who produce their designs using FPGAs or PCBs, but whose production volumes are insufficient to be attractive to traditional ASIC vendors (these companies would benefit technically and commercially if their designs were implemented on an ASIC); and companies who have insufficient resources or experience to confidently manage the interface with a pure-play foundry for volume silicon manufacturing.
Highway to Silicon is a programme that offers a reassuring solution to these companies.
Accent's Highway to Silicon combines leading-edge design capability with the supply of low-volume ASIC parts under a single supply chain contract.
Thanks to Accent's special agreements with leading foundries, "Highway to Silicon" can be available for a production commitment as low as 50 samples.
The programme has already helped an Accent customer whose production volume was around 20 thousand pieces/year to realise savings of as much as Eur 2 million, by moving its design from an FPGA to an ASIC.
Other design services from Accent include: analogue and mixed signal design; system-on-chip design; complex FPGA/SoPC design; silicon implementation; IP services; software-driver development and OS porting; prototype board implementation; and embedded software.
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