Company at a Glance Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, US. Year company started: 1989 Number of employees: 100 Privately or publicly held: Privately held Global Presence: UK sales and support office for Europe, R&D Center in Israel and a Design Center in Pittsburgh US, together with various sales offices around the world.
Company Overview Company History
ChipX Inc, headquartered in the US, is a fables semiconductor company specialising in next generation ASICs. ChipX offers a broad range of ASIC solutions and services.
ChipX was initially formed in 1985, as an activity within the Israeli high-tech holding company, Elron Electronic Industries, Ltd. In 1989 it became a prototyping service company. In February 2007 ChipX signed an agreement with Oki Semiconductor Company, a division of Oki America Inc., regarding asset purchase and business collaboration. Pursuant to the agreement, the entire Oki Semiconductor U.S. ASIC engineering team, ASIC specialists and marketing personnel joined ChipX.
Company's Primary Business Model
ChipX is the industry leader and innovator in the design and development of value-added ASIC solutions, including Structured ASIC, Embedded Array, Gate Array, and Standard Cell technologies. Using the company's patented architecture, flexible manufacturing alternatives permit options for rapid turnaround time and scalable volume production. The company has completed over 2000 ASIC designs, with an outstanding percentage of first time working silicon and shipped millions of devices worldwide to Fortune 500 companies.
Company Objective
ChipX's mission is to help customers make the optimum choice for their ASIC designs. The company offers various ASIC options and will recommend to customers the best solution that meets their requirements. Whether the customer is looking for lowest device cost, risk mitigation, low NRE, fast time to market or any combination of these, ChipX has the right solution to offer.
Company Offerings In addition to the various ASIC options, ChipX offers easy conversions from FPGAs to ASICs, replacement for end-of-life (EOL) ASICs or FPGAs in legacy processes, as well as seamless migrations from Structured ASICs to Standard Cell ASICs in very high-volume production.
What ChipX offers
Complete back-end design services, from RTL or Netlist handoff, to volume production manufacturing.
Complex ASIC design up to 10M gates with mixed-signal IP integration.
PCI Express and USB 2.0 system expertise complemented with development boards and characterization of mixed signal IP.
Migration from FPGA prototypes.
Seamless conversion of Structured ASIC and Embedded Array to Standard Cell in high volume.
Production-grade ASIC prototypes fabricated, assembled, packaged, and tested in 3 to 5 weeks depending on the process technology.
High volume ASIC production
What is unique about your company's offerings?
ChipX is a leader in Structured ASICs with more than 1500 designs completed. ChipX has also implemented and shipped complex ASICs with greater than 10M gates at up to 550MHz and with integrated mixed signal IP. ChipX USB and PCI Express platform ASICs are unique in the industry.
Target Markets? ChipX Structured ASIC devices find wide use in automotive electronics, computing, communications, consumer products, industrial control, medical equipment, and military/aerospace systems. ChipX has more than 80 customers in the consumer, communications, industrial and military/aerospace markets.
Company History with ARM
How long has the company been working with ARM? The Oki ASIC design team, which was acquired by ChipX in February 2007 has been doing ARM designs since 1998. We used the ARM7TDMI and the ARM926EJ-S in many ASIC designs. The applications include cellular phones, printers and MP3 players.
ARM technologies your company supports: ARM926EJ
Why have you chosen to work with ARM? Some of its customers prefer to use ARM processors in their designs. ChipX needs to support its customer requirements.
Specialist area as an ARM partner? The ChipX design team has implemented numerous ARM designs.
How chipX works with ARM as a licensee? ChipX uses the ARM926EJ core in its embedded array and standard cell products. The ChipX Design Center supports end user customers from implementation to final product testing.
Can you highlight any end products that chipX/ARM technology is being shipped with? Instrumentation and test equipment, security products.
What one experience comes to mind during your early years of working with ARM? The most significant experience that ChipX had was the first ARM7TDMI design that we did for a famous printer company. The design worked in the first pass and then moved to production. Due to the extremely high volume of the product, we were able to reduce the royalty almost down to zero!
