Rapid Bridge Technology Selected by AppliedMicro for Multi-Platform Advanced Nanometer System-on-Chip Development
October 13 2009 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Rapid Bridge, an innovator in advanced semiconductor design and
development processes, announced today that its LiquidSoC™ has been
selected by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ: AMCC) for a
multi-platform, advanced nanometer system-on-chip (SoC)
engagement.
LiquidSoC – A Systems Approach to Design
Rapid Bridge’s Liquid platforms provide an entirely new approach
to IC development that inherently improves the performance of the
SoC building blocks. Developed from the ground up, Rapid Bridge’s
SoC platforms, or Liquid platforms, have been designed to work
together seamlessly through Rapid Bridge’s patented Global Shared
Resources Architecture. This Global Shared Resources Architecture
differentiates Rapid Bridge’s solution by combining the
infrastructure requirements of individual circuits into a shared
resource system reducing the inefficiencies associated with complex
chip designs.
“In the past, AppliedMicro chose to source solutions from
multiple vendors, which added considerable development time and
integration risk,” said Babak Mansoorian, corporate IP manager at
Applied Micro. “Rapid Bridge offers us a proven alternative, where
all subsystems, IOs and PHYs, work together as a system lowering
both risk and time-to-market.”
Rapid Bridge’s chip-level approach reduces area, power, IP
integration risk, development time and time-to-market – improving
the ability of the semiconductor industry to innovate.
Flexibility and Performance
Rapid Bridge’s Liquid platforms provide meaningful advantages in
power, area and size and have the added benefit of metal
configurability. The configurable Liquid platforms enable designers
to make full logic changes using metal masks only – reducing the
cycle time and costs associated with chip spins, feature creep and
derivative products.
“At AppliedMicro, we took a long term view of where the industry
was heading and our needs in the face of increasing complexity and
cost. In the end, we valued re-configurability, performance and, of
course, total cost,” said Bob Gargus, CFO of AppliedMicro. “Rapid
Bridge’s unique approach delivers a superior advanced nanometer SoC
platform with reduced cost, power and time-to-market.”
The system level advantages of Rapid Bridge’s Liquid platforms
coupled with its metal programmability provide a matchless
combination of flexibility and performance to enable the
next-generation of IC designs.
““We are delighted to work with AppliedMicro to deliver their
next generation of products and look forward to a long term
relationship,” said Massih Tayebi, CEO of Rapid Bridge. “Our goal
at Rapid Bridge is to unleash innovations at advanced nanometers by
lowering the barriers of entry. Our Liquid platforms lower total
development costs, shrink the die size and, most importantly,
reduce power, which contributes greatly to fulfilling our
customer’s environmental objectives. We do all this at very low
NREs and ASIC-comparable unit costs, which makes us very affordable
and lowers the barriers of entry at 90 nm and below for the whole
industry.”
About AppliedMicro (NASD: AMCC)
AppliedMicro is a global leader in energy efficient sustainable
solutions to process, transport, and store information for the next
generation of Internet data center and carrier central office. A
leader in high speed signal processing, IP and Ethernet packet
processing, and embedded processors, AppliedMicro's patented
innovations provide high value solutions in telecom, enterprise and
consumer applications. AppliedMicro's corporate headquarters are
located in Sunnyvale, Calif. Sales and engineering offices are
located throughout the world. For further information regarding
AppliedMicro, visit the company’s Web site at
http://www.appliedmicro.com.
About Rapid Bridge Rapid Bridge is a semiconductor
technology company with a unique approach to addressing the
industry’s issues of cost, performance, power and time to market.
Rapid Bridge’s patented technology is baked into the product
portfolio: LiquidIP™, LiquidASIC™ and LiquidSoC™. LiquidIP is a
robust IP portfolio which includes the smallest and highest
performing IPs in the industry. LiquidASIC lowers cost barriers and
includes a complete collection of pre-defined ASIC platforms,
interface subsystems and foundations IPs. LiquidSoC provides the
industry’s most cost efficient SoCs with customer-defined die size
and IP resources, regular layout structures, and full
programmability. Rapid Bridge enables the industry’s genius. For
more information on Rapid Bridge, visit us at
www.rapidbridge.com.
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