Seattle Semiconductor is an IC design consulting company specializing in small scale (Typically less than 1 Million Gates), turn-key digital IC design projects for companies that would like to realize the cost benefit of IC Integration but don’t have or don’t want the expense of ramping up in-house IC Design expertise.
Seattle Semiconductor specializes in the following types of Digital IC engagements:
Cost Reduction: Taking existing FPGA or discrete logic designs and integrating them into a single IC is typically one of the largest cost benefits that companies can realize for their products. Seattle Semiconductor has considerable experience in cost reducing systems to achieve the best BOM value for our customers.
New Designs: Does your company desire to have a new digital IC developed for your next generation product? Seattle Semiconductor can help! Collectively our team has brought over 40 different new digital ICs to market and shipped over half a billion units. Our past expertise has been in designing and developing very large (20+Million Gate) System-on-Chip devices. However our focus is currently in utilizing the techniques developed on those large projects to help bring smaller devices to market in a time and cost effective manner.
End Of Life and Obsolescence-Proofing: Many of our customers approach us with a need for taking a device or collection of devices and migrating the functionality to their own custom hardware due to commercial end-of-life of existing designed in ICs. Seattle Semiconductor helps these customers achieve their device independence while realizing cost benefits to newer and cheaper technologies.
Process Migration: Does your company require higher performance from their devices? Lower cost? Both? Seattle Semiconductor has considerable experience migrating existing designs to smaller process geometries to achieve significant boosts in performance while reducing the overall BOM cost and increasing reliability.
What Makes Seattle Semiconductor Different?
The major differentiating factor between hiring Seattle Semiconductor and hiring general ASIC consultants is that Seattle Semiconductor owns its own tools… so you don’t have to. Seattle Semiconductor owns and maintains its own design infrastructure. This design infrastructure, which is critical to successful IC design, includes the following items:
• Storage and compute Servers
• EDA tools (Design Entry, Simulation, Verification, Synthesis)
• Documentation templates
• Documentation tools (Automated programs for generating design code from docs)
• Design templates
• Synthesis templates
• Scripts
• Software tools
• Bug tracking tools
• Version Control
By owning the infrastructure, Seattle Semiconductor allows customers to take advantage of an existing design infrastructure base without incurring the cost (in both time and money) of developing that infrastructure in-house.
Companies that work with Seattle Semiconductor see the difference immediately. We do superb documentation, we are experts at digital design, implementation, verification and synthesis and we follow through to make sure your product is perfect the first time.
