As part of ChipX's commitment to provide our customers with quality products and innovative solutions, we recognize others who play an integral role in our success.

IP Partners

CAST develops and supports over 100 different popular and standards-based IP cores, including 8051s, H.264, USB, PCI Express, AES, and even complete platforms for ARM-based SoCs.
 
Ariane Controls is a Powerline (PLC) and Wireless (RF) Communication technology developer offering highly differentiated networking solutions. With its unique & enabling technology, Ariane Controls provides component suppliers and Systems integrators (OEM’s) with the least expensive, most reliable solutions for residential, commercial & industrial building automation and public utilities applications.

Beyond Semiconductor offers complete solution orientated design services ranging from RTL design to software development. Our experience and deep knowledge in the field of processor design as well as development of sophisticated software (such as compilers, etc.) enables our teams of dedicated professionals to offer best solutions to most demanding problems where hardware and software work hand-in-hand in providing high quality, reliable and on-time results.

Northwest Logic's high-performance, easy-to-use IP cores are specifically designed for use in both FPGAs and ASICs, including PCI, PCI Express, Memory Controller Cores, and Peripheral Cores. Each core is available in both netlist and source code formats and is provided with a comprehensive Verification Suite and expert technical suppor

PLDA is the world's largest PCI IP core vendor, PLD Applications designs and sells a wide range of FPGA and ASIC interfacing solutions for the PCI and derivative markets (PCI Express, PCI-X, CompactPCI, and PC104/PC104+).

Rambus' mixed signal IP products deliver the speed and performance required by today and tomorrow's most demanding applications. Rambus' leadership products include the XDR™ DRAM architecture, the world's fastest production memory, and the FlexIO™ interface, the world's fastest processor bus, as well as mixed signal SerDes like PCI Express.

Alliances

Intel®  Communications Alliance
ChipX, Inc. is a General Member of the Intel® Communications Alliance: a community of communications and embedded developers and solution providers.

Design Service Partners

Barco Silex offers a complete portofolio of high-end design services, from traditional ASIC/FPGA/DSP design to advanced SOPC/SOC based system development, IP integration or design, and board design.

Integre Technologies is an electronic design services company specializing in ASIC Development Services. Integre employs highly experienced and proven engineering talent along with sound fundamental practices to successfully assist its customers anywhere along the  ASIC development path.

Intrinsix is an Electronic Design Services Company that architect, design, and verify high integration devices and systems using System-on-Chip(SoC) technology.

QThink is focused on delivering cutting-edge, chip design services and solutions to clients in a variety of product
sectors.
 

EDA Tool Partners

Magma Design Automation develops software for electronic design automation (EDA), enabling integrated circuit designers to meet critical time-to-market objectives, improve chip performance and handle multimillion-gate designs. With headquarters in Silicon Valley and a global network of sales & support personnel, Magma customers include leading semiconductor companies around the world.

ChipX and Aldec work together to provide solutions to today's most complex design issues. Aldec also supplies ChipX FAE's with simulation software for on-site projects and troubleshooting.

ChipX employs SpyGlass at the very start of the design cycle during incoming inspection of Verilog and VHDL RTL. The ChipX engineering team uses SpyGlass to analyze RTL for clock domain crossings, synchronization styles, set/reset consistencies, combinational loops, potential timing errors, DFT requirements and much more. This ensures the fastest time-to-silicon and highest QoR.

ChipX provides design kits for Cadence which support full timing Verilog simulation and fault simulation.

ChipX and Mentor Graphics work together to help design engineers overcome the validation challenge.

As part of the Synopsys "Semiconductor Vendor Partner Program," ChipX provides design kits for Synopsys that support synthesis, simulation, static timing analysis and test compiler.

ChipX uses SynTest's DFT (Design-for-Test) tools TurboBSD for boundary-scan synthesis, TurboCheck-Gate for DFT rule checking at the gate-level, and TurboScan for scan-synthesis and ATPG (Automatic Test Pattern Generation).

Foundry Partners

Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing is one of the world's top three silicon foundries, operating five fabrication facilities in Singapore with a sixth fab in the process of being developed as a 300mm facility.

Tower Semiconductor (Israel) provides manufacturing and turnkey services for integrated circuits on silicon wafers, using its specialized capabilities and the proprietary designs of its customers.

UMC is a leading global semiconductor foundry that manufactures advanced process ICs for applications spanning every major sector of the semiconductor industry. UMC delivers cutting-edge foundry technologies that enable sophisticated system-on-chip (SoC) designs, including 90µ copper, 0.13µ copper, and mixed signal/RFCMOS. UMC is also a leader in 300mm manufacturing; Fab 12A in Taiwan and Singapore-based Fab 12i are both in volume production for a variety of customer products. UMC employs approximately 10,500 people worldwide and has offices in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Europe, and the United States.