Developing a custom SoC/ASIC offers many compelling advantages. For some it is adding smarts to make a device more compelling; for others, it’s integrating a CPU and discretes onto a chip to reduce bill-of-material cost, footprint, and improve performance or protect IP. The custom ASIC process has become a much less costly and risky proposition over the last two decades. “Easy access” and “cost-effective” tools, services and IP enable development of a custom ASIC more easily and with a much lower risk. Arm, imec.IC-link and Mentor are world leaders in the ASIC ecosystem and have joined forces to deliver a seminar for designers, engineering directors & managers and product managers to understand the latest options to deliver a product based on a custom ASIC. The seminar will demystify the risks, explain options and explore supply chain partnership.
Who Should Attend
- CTO’s, system architects, engineering & product directors, managers, and engineers who are
- investigating custom ASIC to replace off-the-shelf ICs and FPGA’s, or
- choosing embedded processors, or
- exploring technology node and supply chain management options
- wanting to investigate access to silicon foundries
- Analog and mixed signal PCB and IC designers
- Physical layout IC designers
What you will learn
- Business, technical and cost factors influencing more companies to adopt custom ASIC to improve their product’s competitiveness and profitability
- cA detailed exploration of design process flow and cost-effective tools for ASIC development: design, simulation, physical layout & verification for manufacturability, full system verification
- Key features of Arm’s Cortex-M0 and Cortex-M3 processors, subsystems, system IP and important physical IP
- Arm’s DesignStart program which has a $0 upfront license fee and a new success based royalty model
- Manufacturing process node choices and IP selection
- Accessing Multi Project Wafers for low cost, prototype production
- Considerations selecting design services, assembly (IC packaging) and test offering, and complete ASIC supply chain management
For more information on this event, please visit: https://www.mentor.com/events/custom-asic