VLSI Technology Ltd is a subsidiary of VLSI Technology Inc. a USA semiconductor company. The UK office comprises sales, design and applications engineering functions. VLSI specialises in complex, high performance cell based ASICs especially designs requiring its broad range of library cells and complex functional systems blocks. VLSI has a flexible approach to design support, from advising on basic design, through doing joint designs to taking completed layouts for fabrication. Designs are accepted in a very wide range of formats and from most available design routes. VLSI's own FABs produce CMOS ASICs in 0.6 to 0.25 technologies.


Prime:
  Manufacture / Design
Subsidiary:
  Consulting
Employees:
  >50


Prime:
  Automotive / Consumer / Communications / Data Processing / Industrial
Subsidiary:
 


PC Based:   Yes
Other:   Yes


VLSI Technology has third party design kits available for Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics, Synopsis, Viewlogic, Compass Design Automation, as well as Valid, Zycad hardware accelerator, HILO, Daisy and IKOS Systems.


www.semiconductors.philips.com

 

 


Address:
486-488 Midsummer Boulevard,
Central Milton Keynes,
MK9 2EQ
tel:
01908 667595
fax:
01908 354300
Sales:
Alan Kirk

 





PLD
FPGA
MPGA
CBIC
Analog
Mixed
Signal
Full
Custom
Scope of supply
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-
Y
Y
-
Y
Y
Available Gates (minimum/maximum)
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-
-
-
-
-
-
Minimum order volume
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20k
25k
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25k
50k
Minimum order value
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£50k
£100k
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£100k
£200k
Entry level costs (Inc. NRE costs & essential specific CAD tools)
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£25k
£40k
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£40k
£50k
Delivery (weeks)
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6 - 8
8 - 12
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8 - 12
12 - 20
Is design support provided?
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-
Yes
Yes
-
Yes
Yes
Is vendor specific software/hardware required?
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-
No
No
-
No
No
Is programming service for PLDJFPGA provided?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Can design be carried out on industry standard PCs?
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-
Yes
Yes
-
Yes
No

PLD = Programmable logic Device FPGA = Field Programmable Gate Array
MPGA = Mask Programmed Gate Array CBIC = Cell Based Integrated Circuit