Actel and Faraday Technology, a leading turnkey ASIC service provider, have said they will provide a low-risk, cost-effective conversion path from current and future generations of Actel's single-chip, flash-based ProASIC FPGAs to standard cell ASICs, using a standard cell CMOS process. Actel's new conversion path provides solutions that address designers' primary concerns - reducing time to market and minimising system cost - thereby allowing companies to take products to market quickly, lower the system cost, increase reliability and eliminate the risks typically associated with ASIC design conversions. This program is well suited to high-volume applications in the communications and industrial markets such as network servers, switches and routers.
Unlike a masked-programmable logic device (MPLD) or conventional gate array migration process, standard cell ASICs offer significantly higher densities and greatly reduced costs. A typical standard cell ASIC is at least 40% more size efficient than an MPLD or comparable gate array.
"By choosing to convert from FPGAs to ASICs, designers avoid the hidden pitfalls of gate array development and production - lost market opportunity and higher development costs," said Barry Marsh, Vice President, Product Marketing at Actel. "The unique fine-grain architecture of ProASIC enables an easy conversion to a cost-efficient standard cell implementation with minimum risks." Marsh continued, "Faraday was an obvious partner due to its close association with leading-edge foundries and its successful track record of FPGA to ASIC conversions. Further, the company has a knowledgeable ASIC design team and a rigorous design methodology to support those customers requiring the conversion to ASICs for their high-volume applications."
Like ASICs, ProASIC devices are single-chip and 'live-at-power-up', eliminating the need for a separate boot device, such as a serial PROM associated with SRAM FPGAs. In addition, they operate at very low power.
For further information contact Kobus van Rooyen, ASIC Design Services, (011) 315 8316.
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