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| SiliconBlue Technologies is the First New FPGA Company to Ship in Production Volume in 20 Years |
| David Manners |
| Monday 11 November 2009, 09:00 AM Eastern Time |
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- Over 10 Customers Shipping Consumer Products Using mobileFPGAs in Volume
- Industry’s First and Only True Wafer Level Chip Scale FPGA Package Solution Accelerates Adoption
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SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SiliconBlue® Technologies, a leader in ultra-low power,
single-chip, SRAM FPGAs, today announced that it has shipped
production-volume quantities of its iCE65™ mobileFPGA™ devices to more
than 10 customers. This makes SiliconBlue Technologies the first new
programmable logic solutions company in over 20 years to achieve this
milestone. The achievement comes as the market for highly-integrated,
extremely-low power mobile applications such as feature phones, eBook
readers, MIDs (mobile internet devices), and DSCs (digital still
cameras) has begun explosive growth.
“As we move through the design-in process with customers, it’s apparent
that our mobileFPGA devices are providing the right solution at the
right time,” said Kapil Shankar, CEO of SiliconBlue. “Much as the growth
of traditional FPGAs was driven by the telecom boom of the 1990’s, the
growth of mobileFPGA devices is being driven by the rate of innovation
in today’s exploding mobile consumer market.”
The rapid adoption of SiliconBlue’s mobileFPGA family is based on its
unmatched ability to meet consumers demand for converging functions on
portable battery-operated devices. It is often difficult for hardware
designers of products like feature phones and eBooks to meet this demand
because of the constrained space, power and cost requirements they face.
In addition, the various semiconductor products that they use are not
necessarily designed to work together. By offering high capacity, low
power, small packages, and ASIC-like prices, the iCE65 mobileFPGA family
delivers the time-to-market benefit of programmable logic solutions to a
new and emerging market. They are enabling the creation of seamless new
solutions.
Built on TSMC’s standard 65nm low-power CMOS process, SiliconBlue’s
iCE65 devices are single-chip, reconfigurable, SRAM-based devices that
incorporate the company’s proprietary NVCM (Non-Volatile Configuration
Memory) technology. NVCM eliminates the need for an external flash PROM,
making them a true ASIC alternative. Devices are available in the most
advanced small-form-factor packaging, including the industry’s first and
only Wafer Level Chip Scale Package (WLCSP). SiliconBlue’s complete
design environment includes the iCEcube™ VHDL and Verilog-based
development software, and the iCEman™ evaluation kit. In addition, the
company works closely with its supply partners to meet the highest
levels of product quality and production readiness.
About SiliconBlue
SiliconBlue Technologies provides a new class of ultra-low power,
single-chip, SRAM FPGAs designed specifically for handheld consumer
applications. Manufactured on TSMC’s 65nm LP (low power) CMOS process,
the iCE65 mobileFPGA family meets the capacity, power, area, and price
requirements for battery-operated products such as Smartphones,
eBooks/ePaper, netbooks, mobile internet devices, portable media
players, handheld POS terminals, medical instruments, digital still
cameras and flash camcorders. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California,
the company has a highly skilled team of PLD experts who have been
instrumental in developing and patenting many of the leading
programmable logic technologies on the market today.
SiliconBlue is a registered trademark and mobileFPGA, iCE65, iCEman and iCEcube are trademarks of SiliconBlue Technologies Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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