eASIC announces Nextreme 2
eASIC DELIVERS 45nm NEW ASIC WITH ZERO MASK-CHARGES
Nextreme-2 Family Aimed At Reversing Decline of
Worldwide ASIC Design Starts
Santa Clara, CA – August 4, 2008 – Leveraging the rapid success of its award winning 90nm Nextreme ASIC Products, eASIC Corporation today announced its next generation Nextreme-2 Family – the semiconductor industry’s first 45nm, zero mask-charge New ASIC family.
The Nextreme-2 Family delivers on eASIC’s promise of affordable silicon customization, enabling the design of custom chips using state-of-the-art 45nm technology and the delivery of working devices in only six-weeks. eASIC is currently engaged with early access customers and mainstream availability will commence in the fourth quarter of 2008.
The no-minimum order quantity, Nextreme-2 ASIC Family paves the way for accelerating eASIC’s market expansion into the $85 billion global logic market, the worldwide semiconductor industry’s largest sector.
Nextreme-2 Family - World’s Only 45nm, Zero Mask-Charge ASIC
• Up to 80 percent lower power than FPGAs
• Up to 20M gates
• Up to 30 Mbits of true dual-port memory
• Up to 2.4 TeraMACs of DSP performance
• Up to 56, 6.5Gbps transceivers & 1.25Gbps LVDS
• Simple design tools and flow
• Six weeks to silicon devices
• No minimum order quantity
”Judging from the magnetic draw we are seeing from the market, we are confident that FPGA designers, ASIC designers and semiconductor companies will find Nextreme-2 to be an irresistible platform for their new designs,” said Ronnie Vasishta, President and CEO of eASIC Corporation. “
The Nextreme-2 Family is manufactured on Chartered Semiconductor’s 45nm low-power (LP) process and armed with the industry’s most efficient LUT-based architecture. The logic fabric provides up to 700MHz performance enabling signal processing engineers with an impressive 2.4 TeraMACs of DSP capability without the need for embedded multipliers.
The combination of triple oxide transistors, 45nm LP process and eASIC’s patented power-management architecture enables Nextreme-2 to lower power consumption by up to 80 percent when compared with state-of-the art FPGAs. Low-power consumption makes Nextreme-2 an ideal choice for applications that demand power efficiency to help reduce system cost and meet stringent power budgets.
The Nextreme-2 Family also includes up to 56 MGIO’s (multi-Gigabit IOs) each capable of operating at 6.5Gbps providing 364Gbps bandwidth. The inclusion of the MGIO’s makes Nextreme-2 a compelling alternative to FPGAs and ASICs for high performance networking applications such as switches, routers, traffic management, metro transmission and mobile backhaul. Nextreme-2 delivers ASIC performance with rapid turnaround time and low upfront cost.