Alliance to optimise SoC designs

MIPS Technologies and IN2FAB Technology have signed an agreement for core hardening and process retargeting services to reduce the challenge of complex SoC design and speed customers' time to market.

MIPS Technologies and IN2FAB Technology have signed an agreement for core hardening and process retargeting services to reduce the challenge of complex SoC design and speed customers' time to market.

The agreement is the third of its kind in the last twelve months as IN2FAB joins MIPS Technologies' growing list of authorised design services companies that provide SoC and system design expertise using MIPS-based technologies.

IN2FAB will offer MIPS Technologies customers process retargeting services for MIPS' entire high-performance and low-power 32 and 64bit processor core families.

The agreement will enable MIPS Technologies licensees to combine the flexibility of the company's microprocessor core technology with process re-targeting services from IN2FAB to rapidly target the resultant design in a matter of weeks to a chosen foundry process.

Using a range of proprietary design tools, IN2FAB will retarget the optimised gate-level netlist or GDSII of the design to the chosen process.

Working with a proven gate-level netlist or GDSII as a foundation provides a significant time-to-market advantage of weeks versus months when compared to the overhead associated with having to resynthesise, verify and place and route the design.

"Getting customers to market faster with optimised solutions that are easy to implement is a cornerstone of our strategy as an enabling SoC technology provider", said Kevin Meyer, vice president of marketing at MIPS Technologies.

"This agreement with IN2FAB Technology provides our licensees that require flexibility when selecting foundry process technology with an excellent resource".

"We are pleased to become part of the MIPS Technologies team that is offering optimised SoC solutions for next-generation MIPS-based designs", said Tim Regan, president and founder of IN2FAB Technology.

"This agreement with MIPS Technologies allows us to rapidly re-target designs for MIPS licensees whether from the gate level or from the physical layout".

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