Product Development
ASIC and FPGA Design Services
Higher levels of performance, reduced costs and increased differentiation - a custom silicon solution offers genuine competitive advantages.
For companies looking to get new products to market,
the use of general-purpose silicon can be a viable solution. A custom silicon solution, however, goes further, delivering a significantly stronger competitive advantage for your business. Based on Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) or Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), custom solutions maximise performance levels, reduce costs and allow real differentiation.
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EnSilica specialises in developing custom hardware using either ASIC or FPGA technologies. As we are independent, we are able to select the best technology based on key requirements such as product features, volumes, power and evaluate the trade-offs between FPGA and ASIC throughout the product life-cycle.
In many cases a standard part with a FPGA can
deliver the necessary differentiation for the initial
product, followed by a migration to a lower cost
ASIC solution, as the volumes increase.
Field programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Field programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices are now very much mainstream technology, EnSilica have designed FPGA solutions for customers working in markets as diverse as networking, broadcast, automotive, defence and aerospace. The built-in functionality in modern FPGA devices coupled with the FPGA vendor's or third party IP allows complex functionality to be included in the device. This can range from embedded processors and DSPs to high-speed interfaces such as PCI Express and Gigabit Ethernet. The high level of integration offered by today's FPGAs increases reliability, provides protection to product cloning and can provide significant differentiation to those products developed with off-the-shelf parts.
Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC)
We deliver boards as either Gerber file format to the selected manufacturer, or through supply chain partners deliver tested prototype or production quantity boards. Our team is skilled in implementing high-speed interfaces using modern signal integrity analysis software. EnSilica can provide expertise required to deliver multilayer board design around FPGA using high-speed interfaces such as DDR2/3, Gigabit Ethernet, RapidIO and PCI Express.
Intellectual Property (IP)
In addition to our design service offering, EnSilica has developed a portfolio of IP cores that can be used within customer designs to deliver a high quality and silicon proven solution in a number of key application areas.
For customers who require an embedded processor solution, EnSilica provide a highly configurable 16/32 bit RISC architecture (eSi-RISC) that scales across a wide range of applications.
To support communications based ASIC designs we have built an enviable OFDM IP portfolio (under the eSi-Comms brand) which is instrumental in providing a platform for Directorcustom and standards-based designs. This IP is highly parameterised and suitable for many of the current air interface standards like WLAN, WiMax, DVB and DAB.
Board Level Solutions
We deliver boards as either Gerber file format to the selected manufacturer, or through supply chain partners deliver tested prototype or production quantity boards. Our team is skilled in implementing high-speed interfaces using modern signal integrity analysis software. EnSilica can provide expertise required to deliver multilayer board design around FPGA using high-speed interfaces such as DDR2/3, Gigabit Ethernet, RapidIO and PCI Express.
