Category Archives: ASIC Design

When And Why Should You Choose An ASIC?

An ASIC stands for Application Specific Integrated Circuit and is often assumed to be exorbitantly expensive to design and manufacture one. The reasons behind such a conjecture is are not entirely unfounded, given the fact that mask-set for the state-of-art semiconductor technology like 5nm costs around $10-15 million! This puts

SoC Timing ECO Cycle

Timing ECOs refer to last mile timing and DRC fixes before you tape-out the ASIC. EDA implementation tools (with help of physical design engineers) do 95-98% of the job when it comes to meeting the timing goals. For the last 1-2% timing violations, however, it is prudent to handle them

Sankalp Semiconductor to present technical paper at CDNLive Bangalore

Sankalp Semiconductor a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC solutions, will be presenting paper at CDNLive India 2018 during 6th & 7th September. The selected paper talks in depth on the “Automated Test Case Creation for Design Rule Deck Validation (DRDV)”. The paper will cover the

IC Mask Design Are Awarded ISO9001:2015

IC Mask Design are pleased to announce they have been awarded the ISO 9001: 2015 standard following a recent ISO audit. ISO9001:2015 is the most updated standard of its kind and focuses on quality management systems and performance. It assists companies in developing a management system that aligns quality with

SCALINX opens new ASIC design center in Caen, France

To support its fast growth, SCALINX opened this month, in addition to its ASIC design center in Paris, the second one in Caen, France, offering design services for custom designed Integrated Circuits.
 

 
“We are very excited to be opening our second design center, which has a highly

The Ridiculously Smart Guide to Developing your own ASIC

Facebook is doing it, Google is doing it, even Amazon and Bosch are doing it. They have started designing ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuit, aka SoCs, ICs, chips). In fact, system companies are becoming the new ASIC designers and manufacturers. If you are a non-silicon company, this paper will help