CONFIGURABLE-CORE and structured-ASIC vendor eASIC Corp and its partner Flextronics Semiconductor have released a structured ASIC that allows users to configure the amount of logic, memory, and reprogrammable logic they need for a given design. The company's executive vice president for marketing, Ronnie Vasishta, says that the new FlexASIC fabric gives users the best of the FPGA and the ASIC worlds: the density and speed associated with ASICs without the NRE (nonrecurring-engineering) costs and the programmability of FPGAs without the power and performance shortcomings. "FlexASIC offers a 25- to 30-times density improvement over FPGAs with power density and performance akin to cell-based design," says Vasishta, claiming FlexASIC operates at approximately 400 MHz.
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