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INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGIES

FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array): Moderate gate count, flexible, high piece-price.

ASIC (Application-specific Integrated Circuit): Large gate count, upfront costs, low piece-price.

SoC (System-on-a-Chip): ASIC with internal multivendor IP, internal buses, broad function.

 

 

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ASICs

 

   Links Pages / Reference

               www.chipdocs.com

               http://www.starburstt.com/links.html

               http://www.dd-t.com/ddt_links.htm

               www.chipconsult.com

               http://www.embeddedclips.com/asic.htm

               http://www.rfcafe.com/vendors/components/asic_links.htm

               http://enterprisestorageforum.webopedia.com/TERM/A/ASIC.html

               http://www.ee.pdx.edu/~mperkows/CLASS_572/=class-schedule-98.html

               http://topsites.us/Top/Computers/CAD/ElectronicDesignAutomation/ASICPLDFPGADigitalLogicDesign/index.htm          EDA

 

   Organizations

www.semichips.org                   SIA Semiconductor Industry Association

TSMC's Design Center Alliance

http://www.smartverification.net/cgi-bin/svp/lib/svp.cgi              Synopsys partners

www.acm.org

 

ASIC News

   www.fabtech.org

   www.hotchips.org

   www.semichips.org   SIA Semiconductor Industry Association                http://www.semichips.org/mem_list.cfm

               SAC Semiconductor Assembly Council

               asic.newstrove.com

               www.semi.org

               www.siliconstrategies.com

               www.semiconductorfabtech.com

               www.sematech.org

               www.micromagazine.com

               www.semiseeknews.com                       XX2002

 

               www.geek.com

   http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=1090               Intel to design chips for third parties”

   http://www.chipcenter.com/asic/main.html

                   www.chipcenter.com/asic/techarch.html

                   http://www.chipcenter.com/asic/newsletters.html

   Electrical Engineering Times

   http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002june/bch20020614012184.htm

               http://www.chipcenter.com/asic/

               www.globaltechnoscan.com

 

     Semiconductor Companies: Market Trends

Xilinx, ASIC vendors talk licensing  - Peter Clarke, EE Times, 6/25/2001

http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010622S0091               ASICs with programmable arrays

     Semiconductor Companies:  Investing

Forbes Adviser Q&A Manoj Nadkarni: Dipping Into Chip Stocks John Dobosz, 01/03/2003

http://www.forbes.com/2003/01/03/cz_jd_0103adviser_print.html

 

This Upturn Has Legs; Q4 Financial Preview - Dan Scovel, Needham&Co. -- Electronic News, 1/1/2001

http://www.e-insite.net/electronicnews/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA57764

 

The Future of the IC Industry: The “Inverted Pyramid” - Bill McClean, 11/01/1999

http://dom.semi.org/web/wchannel.nsf/5d1f03730e8999a6882565f0006108cc/6f5931916001b63e88256812005f11c3?OpenDocument  this one predicts the top 20 IC companies for 1998-2003 (for real list see here)

 

 

    Events

               http://www.computer.org/proceedings/

               www.glsvlsi.org                      Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2003

 

 

  Vendors, ASICs, Microelectronics, SC/GA/EA

               Logo Finder

               www.tsmc.com        TSMC      TSMC – first working 90 nm silicon (also PCI cores)

               www.umc.com                         UMC – check out their  “IP Master”

               http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/products/asics/             IBM

               www.charteredsemi.com          Includes ARM, MIPS, Mosys, …

               www.flextronicssemi.com         Flextronics

               www.amis.com                        AMI Semiconductor

               www.lsilogic.com                     LSI Logic

               www.okisemi.com                    OKI Semiconductor

               www.1stsilicon.com                 1st Silicon (Malaysia)

Infineon Technologies

Philips Semiconductors

Honeywell

Motorola

Ti

Vlsitech

Samsung Austin Semiconductor

STMicroelectronics

TDK

WaferTech

Allegro Microsystems

               www.alphat.com                      Alpha Technologies

               http://www.aeroflex.com/micro.htm           Analog, rad-hardened

   http://www.atmel.com/atmel/products/prod4.htm       SoC and SLI System Level Integration

   http://edevice.fujitsu.com/fj/PRODUCT/asic/index.html

   http://eu.st.com/stonline/asic_platform.html

   http://www.axcelis.com/                          Ion implant

 

  Partners

Advanced Micro Devices

Agere Systems

AMI Semiconductor

Analog Devices

Cypress Semiconductor

Eastman Kodak

Fairchild Semiconductor

IBM

Intel Corporation

International Rectifier

Intersil

Lansdale Semiconductor

LSI Logic

Micron Technology

Motorola

National Semiconductor

ON Semiconductor

Texas Instruments

ZiLOG

 

Altera

Atheros Communications

Broadcom

Cirrus Logic

Conexant Systems

NVIDIA

Oak Technology

Pixelworks

PMC-Sierra

QP Semiconductor

QuickLogic

Rochester Electronics

Silicon Storage Technology

Xilinx

 

SIA Business Partners

Amkor Technology

Applied Materials

ATMI

Axcelis Technologies

Babcock & Brown

Barcelona Design

Cadence Design Systems

Center for Economic Growth

Chartered Semiconductor

Clariant - AZ Electronic Materials

Credit Suisse First Boston

Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA)

Dell

Dewey Ballantine

Environmental & Occupational Risk Management (EORM)

Fulbright & Jaworski

GartnerGroup

GE Capital

Goldman Sachs

Kenyon & Kenyon

KPMG

Lam Research

Lehman Brothers

Loctite

McKinsey & Company

Merrill Lynch

Molecular Imprints

Morgan Stanley

Nasdaq Stock Market

Needham

New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

Novellus Systems

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Recif

Roos Instruments

Salomon Smith Barney

Samsung Semiconductor

Sandia National Laboratories

Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX)

Solid State Equipment

SoundView Technology Group

Synopsys

Teradyne

Tower Semiconductor

UBS PaineWebber

UMC (USA)

Virage Logic

Wachovia Securities

ZMD AG

 

 

 

 

    Vendors, fabless

               www.fsa.org                          Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA)

   http://www.radixtek.com/asics.htm                        DSP

 

               www.irf.com                            International Rectifier

               www.screenkeys.com              LCD Keyswitch Division

               www.rohmelectronics.com        ROHM Electronics

               www.simtek.com                     Simtek Corp.

               www.smsc.com                       SMSC - Standard Microsystems Corporation

               www.tamuracorp.com               Tamura Corporation of America

               www.rtg.com

               www.siliconlogic.com

   www.barco-silex.com

 

http://www.c1d.com/                                                  Custom One Design, Inc.

http://www.ida-inc.com/whatissneaks.html   Independent Design Analysis - Sneak Analysis

http://www.valence.com.hk/default_en.htm

 

UK

Austria Mikrosysteme International Ltd, Camberley, Surrey
Avnet EM Ltd, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Avnet Macro, Slough, Berkshire
Kestronics Ltd, St. Albans, Hertfordshire
Micro Circuit Engineering Ltd, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
Philips Semi-Conductors, Stockport, Cheshire
Vectron International, Southampton, Hampshire

IP Cores, Intellectual Property, IP Consultants, Tools, …  click here

    IP Cores for ASICs

               www.Artisan.com                  umc, chartered

               www.cast-inc.com

               www.VirtualSilicon.com         umc, chartered

               www.ChipIdea.com                              umc

               www.faraday-usa.com           umc

               www.FTDPL.com.sg                            umc

               www.InSilicon.com                umc

               www.LEDAsystems.com       umc         tsmc

               www.Mentor.com                  umc

               www.Mysticom.com                             umc         tsmc

               www.Nurlogic.com                umc         tsmc        ibm

               www.SliceX.com                   umc

               www.Wipro.com                   umc

 

       Processors, embedded

www.ARM.com                        tsmc

www.MIPS.com                       tsmc

Tensilica      tsmc

Trimedia     tsmc

http://www.dolphin.fr/

http://www.io.com/~guccione/HW_list.html

http://www.leox.org/about.html

http://www.free-ip.com/cores.htm             6502, …

www.genapro.com                    ‘Flexible System Architecture’

sun SPARCIIIi uses asynchronous logic

www.siroyan.com

 

      PCI, PCI-X

               www.tsmc.com

               www.nurlogic.com

               www.insilicon.com

               triCN

www.hintcorp.com                   PCI bridges

 

     Comms

               Analog Integrated Partners      tsmc        GBE AFE, 10BT, Firewire PHY, USB2.0 PHY

               Mysticom                               tsmc        10/100 PHY

               TriCN                                    tsmc        SPI4.2

               Tality                                      tsmc        SPI4.2, USB2.0 PHY

               Global Unichip                        tsmc        USB2.0 PHY

               www.LEDAsystems.com        umc         tsmc        LVDS

               www.InSilicon.com                 umc         tsmc        USB2.0, firewire, PCI

               Innovative Semiconductors      tsmc        USB2.0 PHY

 

     Memories I/F

               Rambus                                  tsmc        also SerDes

               TriCN                                    tsmc        SSTL, DDR, LVDS, HSTL, PCI-X

               Tality                                      tsmc        LVDS, SerDes

               Synopsys (Logic Modeling – Denali)

               Samsung

               Micron

 

      Video

               GlobalUnichip                        tsmc        JPEG, NTSC/PAL encoders

               AnalogIP                                tsmc        RBG AFE

               Zoran                                     tsmc        NTSC/PAL codec, 10b video DAC

               www.nuwaveinc.com

                   

     Mixed-signal

               Global Unichip                       tsmc

               www.Tsmc.com                     PLL, DAC, ADC

               Barcelona                               tsmc

               www.LEDAsystems.com       tsmc

               Nordic VLSI                          tsmc

               www.NurLogic.com               tsmc        umc

               Parthus                                   tsmc

               TriCN                                    tsmc

               Tality                                      tsmc

               www.azmicrotek.com             Incl. ECL/PECL

 

      DSP

www.adelante.com       Startup rolls suite of cores, tools for DSP subsystems

               BOPS                                    tsmc

               DSP Group                             tsmc

               Global Unichip                        tsmc

               LSI Logic                               tsmc

 

      RF

                        Testing next generation wireless-LAN RFICs takes some doing

               Ericsson                                 tsmc

               NewLogic                              tsmc

               Tality                                      tsmc

               InProComm                            tsmc

 

     Embedded stuff

               www.Tsmc.com                     hyperblox embedded FPGA cores

               www.eASIC.com                  Programmables

               www.goalasic.com                 80C51 derivatives with EEPROM, etc.

               www.viragelogic.com             Memory Compiler   umc, chartered

   www.starbridgesystems.com  Hypercomputers (FPGA-based)

   Vast Systems

   8/16 bit uPs

                   http://www.e-insite.net/ednmag/index.asp?layout=article&stt=000&articleid=CA150817&pubdate=8/16/01

http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/sps/site/homepage.jsp?nodeId=0M10F4VT5H&releaseLevel=Preview

   UML       www.uml.org

                   http://www.e-insite.net/ednmag/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA150818&pubdate=8/16/01

 

 

     Test, JTAG

 

   IP Core Testing

            www.infozoic.com                                            Sponsor of this page

            http://home.europa.com/~celiac/ip.html              Celia on IP Cores

            Virtual chips

            Telecom workbench

 

    Design Centers, Consultants

               www.infozoic.com                                Sponsor of this page

http://www.analogmicro.de/english/csic/index.html     Sensors, etc.

www.asicdsn.com                                                    ASIC Design and Marketing

www.asic-design.com

www.astekcorp.com

www.excel-consultants.co.uk

www.freecore.com (for sale)

www.ichaus.com                                                      Germany

www.ims.co.uk                                                        Mixed-signal ASICs

www.innotechsystems.com/asic.htm                         Voice, IR, gen. Consulting

www.intrinsix.com                                                    CONsulting

IC Design Consulting (Paul Harvey [says he designed 22V10 for AMD])

http://www.micro-circuit.com/index.cfm?PID=55      Micro-Circuit Engineering

www.nsysinc.com                                                    India? Incl. Verification

www.prema.com                                                     Analog & Mixed-signal ASICs

www.therongroup.com

www.ultracamdesigns.com

 

www.asicvillage.com                                                 career help

 

    Papers and General Info

http://www.itpapers.com/cgi/SubcatIT.pl?scid=121

http://www.a-s-1.com/EDESIGN.HTM

http://www.stockmaster.com/mag/issue64/news-asic.html         costs

http://www.electronicengineering.com/story/OEG20020715S0010          noise

www.cedcc.psu.edu/ee497i/asic/hndbk.pdf   “PL/ASICs”, Dave Landis, Penn State

http://www.vsi.org/library/articles.htm          

 

    Books

http://www.optimagic.com/review1.html    “Application Specific Integrated Circuits” MJS Smith

                   http://www.cyberfab.net/training/asic/asicbook.html

Timing Verification of Application-Specific Integrated Circuits “, Nekoogar, Farzad

http://www.webbooks.net/books/_Kluwer/Bhatnagar.html

www.phptr.com                        Prentice-Hall professional technical reference

http://vig.prenhall.com:8081/catalog/professional/product/1,4096,0130915580,00.html

http://www.eesource.com/pub/books/02ASIC.html

http://www.mcadcafe.com/BOOKINFO/#Product%20Desigin%20and%20Development

HDL Chip Design

http://www.eedesign.org/www.freecore.com/vhdlbooks.htm            review of VHDL books

http://www.rulabinsky.com/cavd/ 1994    “Computer Aids for VLSI Design”

 

    Training

www.esperan.com                     HDL

www.tm-associates.com            HDL

http://www.asicdsn.com/implemt.html

 

    Research

               Hugo de Man, Leuven (IMEC), ASIPs http://www.eedesign.com/story/OEG20020306S0001

 

 

     Physicality: Fabrication, Packaging

               www.tsmc.com                        TSMC – first working 90 nm silicon (also PCI cores)

               www.umc.com                         UMC – check out their  “IP Master”

               http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/products/asics/             IBM

               www.charteredsemi.com          Includes ARM, MIPS, Mosys, …

               Applied Materials

               www.htelabs.com                   specialty fabs

     Physicality: Modeling

               “integrated synthesis”,

               mit-ll

               http://www.chipcenter.com/asic/products_300-399/prod304.html        Masks:  GDSII -> Oasis

               http://www.cadence.com/articles/phys_syn_date.html

               http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~durkin/asic.html

               Power issues in deep-submicron http://www.eedesign.com/story/OEG20020226S0013

                    HCI (Hot-Carrier Injection)

                    NBTI (Negative Bias Temperature Instability)

                                         http://www.celestry.com/news_070802.shtml

     Physicality: Testing, Metrology/QC

               Teradyne

               LTX

               http://www.kla-tencor.com

               http://www.vlsistandards.com

 

 

     FPGA/ASIC conversions

               www.fpgaconversion.com          Xilinx “Hardwire”

               www.flextronicssemi.com         Flextronics (+Orbit)

               www.chipexpress.com

               www.lightstream.com                              ???

 

               http://www.atmel.com/atmel/products/prod55h.htm

               www.forasic.com

 

               www.synopsys.com/epic.html EPIC tools: mixed-signal, timing, power, modeling

 

    Standards & Protocols

               www.techstreet.com

               www.itu.int                             Int’l Telecommunications Union

               www.oiforum.com                  OIF Optical Internetworking Forum

               IEEE                                      IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

               www.ansi.org                         ANSI American National Standards Institute

               www.npforum.org                  NPF Network Processing Forum

               www.10gea.org                     Gigabit Ethernet Alliance

               www.intel.com/design/ixa/      Intel IXA

               new compactTCA                  Telecom Computing Architecture

               www.hypertransport.org         HyperTransport

 

 

 

Glossary                                 click here

Intellectual Property              click here

HDL Information                   click here

SOC Information                    click here

ASIC Information                  click here

FPGA Information                 click here

Verification Information        click here

 

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