eASIC Corporation, a provider of Structured ASIC devices and Configurable Logic IP, announced the availability of an ARM926EJ processor, offered in eASIC's Nextreme 90nm product family. Under the agreement signed between ARM and eASIC, this partnership will enable a broad range of users to have access, for the first time, to a 32-bit CPU core on a configurable fabric, while meeting the power, price and performance requirements of their Structured ASIC or Platform Designs.
Ronnie Vasishta, CEO of eASIC Corporation, said, "eASIC is building a wide and deep IP portfolio to offer its customers the low-cost, flexibility and time-to-market advantages of design-reuse, and the ARM926EJ processor is a major milestone in this roadmap. Our goal is to provide our customers with an affordable solution for implementing their own innovative products cost-effectively and with the ability to quickly react to market fluctuation. The digital consumer market, which is a major industry growth driver, dictates the need to reduce cost, shorten turnaround time and embrace flexibility. These benefits are made possible using a mask-less lithography, such as employed for our Nextreme fabric, and offering design reuse capabilities such as the ARM processor. We are eager to provide our customers with this very valuable yet cheap silicon real-estate."
The 90nm Nextreme devices offer a combination of fast turnaround prototypes to verify designs together with production devices for high-volume applications. The Nextreme features include system performance of up to 350MHz, densities ranging from 350K gates to 5 Million ASIC gates and up to 790 user I/Os.
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