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eASIC is a fabless semiconductor company offering breakthrough
NEW ASIC devices aimed at dramatically reducing the overall cost and
time-to-production of customized semiconductor devices. Low-cost,
high-performance and fast-turn ASIC and System-on-Chip designs are enabled
through patented technology utilizing Via-layer customizable routing. This
innovative fabric allows eASIC to offer a new generation of ASICs with
significantly lower up-front costs than traditional ASICs.
- editor's comments:- February 2013 -
eASIC offers a
semiconductor solution that suits test marketing of high performance digital
functions which the company says delivers better power consumption than FPGAs -
and smoother market transition to the volumes of an ASIC design later.
Among
other things eASIC's IP includes a
NAND
flash memory controller core |
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| If you could go back in
time and take with you - in the DeLorean - a factory full of modern
memory chips and SSDs (along with backwards compatible adapters) what real
impact would that have? |
| are we ready for
infinitely faster RAM?
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| Surviving SSD
sudden power loss |
Why should you care
what happens in an SSD when the power goes down?
This important design
feature - which barely rates a mention in most SSD datasheets and press releases
- has a strong impact on
SSD data integrity
and operational
reliability.
This article will help you understand why some
SSDs which (work perfectly well in one type of application) might fail in
others... even when the changes in the operational environment appear to be
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| eASIC to be acquired by
Intel |
Editor:- July 12, 2018 - eASIC has agreed to be
acquired by Intel
- it was
announced
today.
Editor's comments:- For Intel this will strengthen and lengthen
its architectural chip supply engagements with customers who are looking for
customizable extensions to their data processing chip sets and who are at the
stage where they have a proven proprietary concept which they want to use in an
energy and performance footprint which is better than the FPGA implementations
enabled by products like those from Intel's earlier acquisition
Altera.
In
Intel's earlier history (1970s to 1980s) its chipsets which supported common
functions around its processors helped the company remain at the center of
design and architecture decisions made by its systems customers. But because the
company's PC and standard server business was so successful it decided that it
didn't want to get involved with idiosyncratic customized consumer platforms
- a strategy which lost it the mobile phone and tablet markets.
(Intel
had dabbled in the server grade ASIC and gate array markets in the late 1980s
when it gained access to IBM's custom IP. That experience - which was judged to
be a failure - showed that the custom business was more competitive and
more difficult for Intel than the safer option of extending markets for its
own standard processors.)
Today the biggest users of processors and
memory are cloud scale companies which are all (already or soon) designing
custom accelerators and useful chips sets to improve the effectiveness of their
infrastructures. FPGAs, customizable controllers and ASICs are all part of that
product mix. IP solutions like those from eASIC can be useful in applications
where the volumes and changeability of designs make ASIC too slow to market and
expensive - but the energy footprint and memoryfication requirements make FPGAs
a less than optimal fit for large volumes.
This acquisition will give
Intel greater visibility and flexible capability in the next wave of
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| Seagate invests in eASIC |
Editor:- August 5, 2013 - eASIC today
announced
it has got a strategic investment from Seagate.
eASIC has demonstrated innovative custom silicon technology with our... solid
state hybrid drives said Rocky Pimentel,
chief sales and marketing officer at Seagate. eASICs ability to quickly develop
custom solutions while meeting stringent cost, power and performance
requirements will enable us to rapidly improve our product position in both
SSD and SSHDs. | | |
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| Violin migrates controller
implementations to eASIC |
Editor:- February 27, 2013 -
Violin has
selected ASICs from eASIC's
Nextreme-2T range to replace
high density FPGAs and implement fast flash controller functions more
efficiently within
its 6000 series SSD rackmounts it was
announced
today.
"There is tremendous innovation going on in the enterprise
storage market and we are thrilled to be working with Violin, one of the fastest
growing leaders in this space," said Ronnie Vasishta,
President and CEO, eASIC.
"OEMs need to continuously innovate and
quickly ramp to volume production. We are starting to see a tipping point where
FPGAs cannot be used in mission critical, power sensitive, volume applications
and the ASIC alternatives do not meet the requirements. Traditional cell-based
ASICs just take too long to design and ASSPs have limited flexibility for the
NAND FLASH interface." | | |
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