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eASIC Corporation, a provider of zero-mask charge ASIC devices, today
announced the immediate availability of Gaisler Research’s
LEON3 SPARC Soft Processor. eASIC and Gaisler Research migrated the
LEON3 processor to eASIC’s Nextreme family of
zero mask-charge ASIC devices and achieved 235MHz performance,
shattering the performance achievable using high performance FPGAs.
Customers now have immediate access to the LEON3 processor and GRLIB IP
library for implementing single chip, SPARC V8 architecture compliant,
embedded systems using Nextreme devices.
Gaisler Research Joins eASIC’s Growing
eZ-IP Alliance Program to Provide Higher Performance LEON3 SPARC Soft
Processor Using Nextreme Zero Mask-Charge ASICs
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--eASIC Corporation, a provider of zero-mask charge ASIC devices, today
announced the immediate availability of Gaisler Research’s
LEON3 SPARC Soft Processor. eASIC and Gaisler Research migrated the
LEON3 processor to eASIC’s Nextreme family of
zero mask-charge ASIC devices and achieved 235MHz performance,
shattering the performance achievable using high performance FPGAs.
Customers now have immediate access to the LEON3 processor and GRLIB IP
library for implementing single chip, SPARC V8 architecture compliant,
embedded systems using Nextreme devices.
LEON3 complements eASIC’s embedded processor
portfolio which already includes processors from ARM and Tensilica. The
addition of LEON3 enables eASIC to extend the market penetration of its
zero mask-charge ASICs into the SPARC V8 community. Being SPARC V8
conformant, existing compilers and kernels for SPARC V8 can be used with
LEON3 to facilitate rapid development of applications.
“eASIC’s Nextreme
offers our customers with a path to higher performance and lower cost
than our FPGA implementations which max out at around 125MHz on high-end
FPGAs,” said Per Danielsson, CEO Gaisler
Research AB. “We were surprised with how quick
we were able to implement our design onto Nextreme and are very excited
that we can now offer our customers a fast path to high volume
production using eASIC’s zero mask-charge
ASICs.”
“Our collaboration with Gaisler Research AB
has allowed us to validate the implementation and the high performance
of the LEON3 processor,” said Jasbinder
Bhoot, Senior director of Marketing at eASIC Corporation. “Our
strategy is not to tie system architects into a proprietary FPGA
processors, instead we want our customers to be able to choose the right
processor for their applications,” Added
Bhoot.
Pricing and Availability
The LEON3 processor is available immediately from Gaisler Research. The
processor can be implemented in eASIC’s
smallest zero mask-charge ASIC – NX750LP with
pricing starting at $3.95 per unit in volume. Additional IP cores,
comprehensive documentation and technical support are also available
from Gaisler Research.
About LEON3
LEON3 is a synthesizable VHDL model of a 32-bit processor compliant with
the SPARC V8 architecture. The LEON3 processor features a SPARC V8
instruction set with V8e extensions, an advanced 7-stage pipeline,
hardware multiply, divide and MAC units and a high-performance, fully
pipelined IEEE-754 floating-point unit (FPU).
About eASIC
eASIC is a fabless semiconductor company offering breakthrough zero
mask-charge ASIC devices aimed at dramatically reducing the overall cost
and time-to-production of customized semiconductor devices. Low-cost,
high-performance and fast-turn ASIC and System-on-Chip designs are
enabled through patented technology utilizing Via-layer customizable
routing. This innovative fabric allows eASIC to offer ASICs with no
mask-charges and no minimum order quantity,
Privately held eASIC Corporation is headquartered in Santa Clara,
California. Investors include Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield
and Byers (KPCB), Crescendo Ventures, Advanced Equities Incorporated and
Evergreen Partners. For more information, please visit www.eASIC.com
About Gaisler Research
Gaisler Research AB is a provider of SoC solutions for exceptionally
competitive markets such as Aerospace, Military and demanding Commercial
applications. Gaisler Research’s products
consist of user-customizable 32-bit SPARC V8 processor cores, peripheral
IP-cores and associated software and development tools. Gaisler Research
solutions help companies develop highly competitive customer and
application-specific SoC designs. Please visit http://www.gaisler.com
for more information.
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