Achronix Semiconductor Corporation is an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California with an additional R&D facility in Bangalore, India,[2][3] and an additional sales office in Shenzhen, China.[4] Achronix is a diversified fabless semiconductor company that sells FPGA products, embedded FPGA (eFPGA) products, system-level products and supporting design tools. Achronix was founded in 2004 in Ithaca, New York based on technology licensed from Cornell University.[5] In 2006, Achronix moved its headquarters to Silicon Valley.[6][7]
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | 2004 in Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
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| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Robert Blake (CEO) Virantha Ekanayake (CTO) |
| Products | FPGA, eFPGA IP |
| Website | achronix.com |
Achronix was originally self-funded by several million dollars of founder's capital. Since 2006, Achronix has been funded by a combination of venture capital funding, private equity funding and debt from traditional lenders.[8]
In July 2021 Achronix cancelled its plans to go public through a merger with a special acquisition (SPAC) company ACE Convergence Acquisition Corp due to regulatory approval difficulties. The proposed transaction valued the company at $2.1bn.[9]
Products
edit- Speedster7t FPGAs - Standalone FPGA devices built on TSMC 7 nm FinFET technology. It includes a 2D Network-on-Chip (NoC), GDDR6 memory interfaces, up to 72 transceivers operating at 1-112 Gbit/s, 400G Ethernet MACs, PCIe Gen5 controllers and up to 1,760 machine learning processors (MLP) for mathematical operations with variable precision number formats.[10]
- Speedcore eFPGAs - Embedded FPGA IP that is integrated into a SoC or ASIC device. It consists of customer defined amounts of reconfigurable logic blocks, logic and block RAM, DSP blocks and Machine Learning Process (MLP) blocks.[citation needed] Speedcore is supported in TSMC 16FF+, TSMC 7 nm FinFET and TSMC 12FFC is under development.[11]
- VectorPath Accelerator Cards - PCIe card which is based on the Speedster7t FPGA family. This card includes 400G and 200G network interfaces, 8 GDDR6 memories, and additional expansion ports for custom connectivity.[12]
- ACE - FPGA development tools which are used to design for all of Achronix's FPGA and eFPGA devices.[13][14]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Ramaswamy, Shankaranarayanan; et al. (2009). "A radiation hardened reconfigurable FPGA" (PDF). 2009 IEEE Aerospace conference. pp. 9–10. doi:10.1109/AERO.2009.4839506. ISBN 978-1-4244-2621-8. S2CID 11659933.
- ^ "Achronix and Signoff Semiconductors Partner for AI/ML FPGA and eFPGA IP Design Services". edacafe.com. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
- ^ "Achronix SPAC Merger? 6 Things to Know About the Semiconductor Play Ahead of Any ACE Deal". investorplace.com. 6 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
- ^ "Achronix's Speedcore eFPGA Devices to be Highlighted at TSMC 2018 North America, China Technology Events in May". design-reuse.com. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
- ^ "EE Times updates list of emerging startups". eetimes.com. Retrieved 2021-12-27.
- ^ Nenni, Daniel. "In Their Own Words: Achronix". Semiwiki. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ "Achronix Grew 700% Last Year...eFPGA is a Thing". community.cadence.com. Retrieved 2021-12-27.
- ^ "ACEV And Achronix Offer Fairly Priced Upside To The Red Hot Semi Market". seekingalpha.com. Retrieved 2021-12-27.
- ^ Achronix press release, 12 July 2021
- ^ says, TotallyLost (2019-05-21). "Achronix 7nm Speedster7t FPGAs". EEJournal. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ "Achronix Accelerates eFPGA". EEJournal. 2018-12-05. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ "Achronix and BittWare Accelerate Your Socks Off!". EEJournal. 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ "ACE". Achronix Semiconductor Corp. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ "How to Design SmartNICs Using FPGAs to Increase Server Compute Capacity". design-reuse.com. Retrieved 2021-12-28.
Further reading
edit- "Intel lets outside chip maker into its fabs. Achronix goes all red, white, and blue", The Register, 1 November 2010
- "Exploring the Intel and Achronix Deal", David Kanter, Real World Tech, November 8, 2010
- "22-nm-Chips von Intel heben Startup auf FPGA-Thron" Archived 2020-07-26 at the Wayback Machine // Frank Riemenschneider, Elektronik Net, (in German), 2012-04-24
- "Intel’s First Factory Customer Touts Made-in-USA Chips", The Wall Street Journal, Feb 20, 2013
- "Breaking the Balance. Achronix FPGAs Disrupt the Status Quo", Kevin Morris, EEJournal, February 26, 2013
- "My Take on Achronix & Its Products", Paul Dillien, All programmable planet, 3/11/2013
- Alexander Bachmutsky, System Design for Telecommunication Gateways, chapter "3.5.2.1 Achronix FPGAs"
