KaiSemi - FPGA to ASIC Conversions
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KaiSemi provides FPGA to ASIC, ASIC to ASIC, and DSP to ASIC conversions to reduce production costs for customers. They use in-house tools to directly convert netlists with no changes to functional source code, providing a drop-in replacement chip within 6-14 weeks. KaiSemi handles the entire conversion process with no upfront costs to customers and guarantees functionality of the replacement chip.
KaiSemi - FPGA to ASIC Conversions
- 1. FPGA to ASIC, ASIC to ASIC,DSP to ASICCONVERSIONs
- 2. Reduce Production Cost Reduce your FPGA chip cost by more than 50% from your product, with no effort from your side" KaiSemi provides you a Guaranteed ASIC drop-in replacement with No NREpayment, as Fast as 6-14 weeks.KaiSemi is the only vendor who owns in-house semi-automated tools converting FPGA-to-ASIC directly from netlist, any size of FPGA.KaiSemi will convert your FPGA, covering the whole ASIC workflow from customer decision until 2nd source product shipping, seamless to customer work. relies on a strong firm financial footing of Kai-Tek Group and a massive proven conversion experience.
- 3. About KaiSemiKaiSemi is a fabless semiconductor vendor specialized in product conversions of:FPGA-to-ASIC ASIC-to-ASICDSP-to-ASICMultiChip-to-ASICwww.kaisemi.comKaiSemi is a part of the Kai-Tek Group of companies, a well established representative, distributor and a R&D service provider in the semiconductor market with a strong financial backing. www.kai-tek.comThe Kai-Tek Group is a member of the ATeG “Advanced Technology Group”, a provider of very strong technical offerings to its customers, worldwide, from design-in to production service.www.ateg-ww.com
- 4. Specialists of Cost-reduction chipsCost-reduction by FPGA-to-ASIC replacement.
- 5. Any size of FPGA
- 6. Seamless automated conversion directly from Netlist
- 7. End-Of-Life continuation ASIC-to-ASIC replacement.
- 8. Cost-reduction by merging multiple FPGAs/ASICs:
- 9. into a single-die replacement, or
- 10. into a multi-die single package replacement
- 12. fully compatible pin-to-pin 2nd source
- 13. functional replacement with decreased package
- 14. Cost-reduction and performance boost by DSP-to-ASIC.KaiSemi services
- 15. Technical background:Why replace FPGA by ASIC ?Significant Cost reduction.
- 17. Protection and copy-securing of Intellectual Property.
- 18. Board cost reduction: No need for Flash/EPROM chip; May reduce size in a multi-FPGA case.
- 19. Eliminates power-up reconfiguration time.
- 20. Significant lower radiated EMI.KaiSemi exclusive WorkflowTraditional flowKaiSemi flowFPGARTLFPGA NetlistRTL fit to ASICKaiSemi is focused on converting, FPGA or ASIC, directly from the FPGA’s Post-P&R-Compiled Netlist.
- 21. Kai-Semi has an exclusive set of tools and processes to convert directly from FPGA netlist to ASIC final chip.
- 22. Converting from FPGA netlist stage allows us to give quality guarantee with no functional risk and very fast cycle time.Functional SimulationFull ASIC SynthesisKaiSemi in-house toolsTiming + Functional SimulationDFT insertionsASIC NetlistLayout P&RTiming + Functional SimulationFAB hand-off
- 23. KaiSemi business modelFunctionality Guaranteed “No good, no pay”.Zero NRE Payment“Minimum Risk”.Fastest cycle-time “as fast as 6-14 weeks”.Minimum customer intervention “Fire and forget”.Any size FPGA“Minimum complexity limitation”.125Customer34
- 24. KaiSemi exclusive benefitsFunctionality Guaranteed (No Good No Pay!), because:No RTL touch ! Functional source code is untouched. Using ONLY the Netlist outcome of the proven working FPGA. Proven in-house semi-automated developed conversion tool with experience limits human errorsNo NRE Payment (No Risk), because: Our business model is targeted to ease on the customer. Based on minimum quantity ordering.Fastest cycle-time, because: Shortening ASIC flow cycle by using automated process and by starting, higher, from netlist stageLimiting the need for customers cycles of RTL flow, synthesis, verifications and back-annotations.Having well established coherent work flow with FABs.Minimum customer intervention (Fire & Forget), because: Customer is required to provide 2 main receivables: The FPGA netlist A verification test vectors. From that point on we proceed in posted mode, performing the whole ASIC process until providing a final working chip. Any size FPGA, because:KaiSemi conversion tool deals with any size and any type of FPGA with No limit on netlist size.
- 25. KaiSemi TeamThe KaiSemi team is built from experts, having 12 to 19 years of experience in the relevant activity of FPGAs & ASIC conversions including the full flow required for ASIC productization.
- 26. The team members have an experience of over 500 successful FPGAs & ASIC conversions. KaiSemi Additional ExpertiseDelivering a fully compatible pin-to-pin packaged device based on the existing FPGA. Capability to fit compatible IPs, PLLs & I/Os of FPGAs to ASICs.Capability to provide various types of special cells like PLLs, DLLs, ADPLLs, Multipliers, Power-On-Reset and broad range of IPs.KaiSemi has a well established infrastructure with FABs and Processes in a wide range of technology processes (0.5u, 0.35u, 0.18u, 0.13u, 0.09u). FAB-Process is carefully defined based on the required frequency and other design constraints, targeting to lower the cost.Supporting Commercial, Industrial and Military grades.Supporting Mixed signal and custom Analog cells solutions.Providing Custom low power design for specific modules.Supporting High performance libraries and clocking, convering both high speed and low power requirements.
- 27. ASIC to ASICKaiSemi provides EOL (End Of Life) replacements for ASICs taking care of the entire production process, without customer involvement.We guarantee a fully compatible drop-in replacement for use as a reliablereplacement part second source.We do not charge NRE, we only get paid for the working parts, so no risk is involved for the customer.KaiSemi has also the capability to provide ASIC to ASIC conversion for improving performance and/or using improved replaceable ASIC libraries and IPs.
- 28. Multi Chip MergeKaisemi provides advanced multi chip solutions, that convert several FPGA's into one ASIC, thus reducing the total system cost and power consumption immensely.We could also package your EOL (End Of Life) ASIC or converted FPGA along with its external memories etc. thus enabling further cost reduction and a reduced PCB footprint.We have the ability to assemble Multiple dies in a single package.In addition, we have the ability to convert Multiple FPGAs into a single die.
- 29. DSP to ASICPerformance comparing example:JPEG Encoder Case StudyLink:www.gmvhdl.com/fpga_for_dsp.htmlKaiSemi offers a migration flow from DSP designs to a dedicated ASIC.This allows our customers to boost DSP performance up to x100 from the existing top of the line expensive DSP chips.KaiSemi offers a development environment flow and service to import DSP designs into ASIC while using evaluation verification on an FPGA.DSP design houses can now boost performance per cost in their applications, by moving from a traditional DSP chip to a dedicated ASIC, using KaiSemi's offering, with minimum development effort on their side.* Estimated performance based ASIC frequency speedupPerformance per Cost comparing www.latticesemi.com/lit/docs/generalinfo/ecp_whitepaper.pdfLink:* Estimated performance/cost based ASIC area parallelism
- 30. ContactsWebsite:www.kaisemi.comSales:[email protected] Tel: +972-9-8920400 Cell: +972-54-6675544Tech Support:[email protected] Tel: +972-9-8920400 Cell: +972-54-4584445
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