eASIC, IPextreme announce Freescale ColdFire processors for Nextreme NEW ASICs

SANTA CLARA, USA: eASIC Corp., a provider of NEW ASICs devices, and IPextreme, the company bringing famous IP (intellectual property) to system-on-chip designers worldwide, announced the immediate availability of Freescale’s 32-bit V1 and V2 ColdFire processor cores for Nextreme NEW ASICs.

The addition of the ColdFire processors to eASIC’s eZ-IP core library, enables designers to implement small foot-print, ColdFire cores on fast turnaround Nextreme NEW ASICs and thus provide a low-cost entry point for creating customized ColdFire-based applications within consumer, medical, automotive, and industrial markets.

With almost three times greater performance of comparable implementations in low-cost FPGAs, Nextreme NEW ASICs provide system designers with a significantly better price/performance alternative to FPGA implementations and with a much lower up-front cost alternative to standard cell ASIC implementations.

The 32-bit RISC V1 and V2 ColdFire processors are backed by a complete and proven ecosystem of development tools, software stacks, and drivers from Freescale and other leading providers such as GNU, Green Hills Software, Wind River Systems, Accelerated Technology / Mentor Graphics, and many others.

“The inclusion of V1 and V2 ColdFire processors into our eZ-IP portfolio enables embedded system designers to leverage their existing code-base while quickly delivering optimized, highly differentiated, low-cost solutions that can be taken into high-volume production,” said Jasbinder Bhoot, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at eASIC. “We want our customers to have the freedom to choose the right processor core for the task at hand, and not forced into a proprietary offering as we see with some FPGA vendors,” added Bhoot.

“The V1 and V2 ColdFire synthesizable IP cores are two of our most popular processors and we are excited to add them to eASIC’s eZ-IP core library,” said Rick Tomihiro, Vice President of Marketing at IPextreme. “Thousands of embedded systems designers worldwide create designs around the ColdFire architecture and enabling them to combine the high performance, low gate count and complete ecosystem of ColdFire microprocessors with the low cost and high performace of eASIC’s Nextreme NEW ASICs provides them with a unique advantage over their competition to create advanced and low cost embedded solutions to meet and exceed their customers requirements.”

Deliverables
The V1 and V2 ColdFire cores for the Nextreme NEW ASICs are available from IPextreme. The cores are delivered in Verilog source RTL and include:

* Synthesizable Verilog source code.
* Integration testbench and tests.
* Documentation.
* Scripts for simulation and synthesis with support for all common EDA tools.

Sonics joins IPextreme's Constellations program

MILPITAS, USA: Sonics Inc. and IPextreme Inc. announced that Sonics has joined the IPextreme Constellations program, which is designed to make semiconductor IP more accessible to a greater number of SoC designers.

Sonics is a premier supplier of on-chip communications solutions and IPextreme brings IP to global SoC designers.

The Constellations program increases sales opportunities for independent IP companies through lead-sharing among program members. With this collaborative effort, IP from multiple companies is now more accessible to potential customers. The entire design process is streamlined because designers can reduce the amount of time they spend searching for the right IP solution.

“The IPextreme Constellations program is a unique way for us to reach potential customers that we may not have been able to otherwise,” said Jack Browne, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Sonics. “We support all new ways that can help customers quickly find IP solutions for their designs which can save them development time and shorten the time-to-market.”

"Sonics’ on-chip communications technology is increasingly important in putting together semiconductors with multiple IP cores," said Warren Savage, president and CEO of IPextreme. "We’re excited to see Sonics add its star to our growing Constellation of leading IP companies working together in open collaboration."

Constellations was formed to provide IP companies a cost-effective way to expand their visibility to potential customers who are looking for the right technology for their system designs.