Building a better mousetrap plays a key role in achieving market success in any industry. Of course, building one requires differentiating the product from the others already in the market. A differentiated product can even lead to creating demand for new products in adjacent markets. All of this is great but how do you implement the differentiation? In the semiconductor industry, it is through a combination of custom circuits and software. While custom silicon solutions as a market segment has been around for a long time, it certainly has gone through its waxing and waning phases. The partition of customization implementation between hardware and software is an ongoing balancing act and is dictated by various driving factors.

Currently, there are a few trends that are reinvigorating the custom silicon solutions industry. The move toward domain-specific architectures, more processing at the edge and edge-AI accelerators are some of those trends. The spectrum of power, performance, area (PPA) and latency requirements demand custom silicon. These factors are driving innovations in design methodology, interfaces, and packaging to name just a few areas. Custom silicon solution companies will be playing a critical role over the coming years.

OpenFive — your proven path from custom SoC architecture to volume silicon. OpenFive offers end-to-end expertise in Architecture, IP Integration, Design Implementation, Software, Silicon Validation, and Manufacturing to deliver high-quality silicon in advanced nodes down to 5nm. With spec-to-silicon design capabilities, customizable platforms, and differentiated IP for Artificial Intelligence, Datacenter/High Performance Computing, Networking, and Storage applications, OpenFive is uniquely positioned to deliver highly competitive domain specific processor agnostic SoCs customized for your application.

OpenFive offers specialized custom SoC solutions that are optimized for power, performance and area, providing greater design flexibility and a competitive edge. When standard products don’t meet your business or technical requirements, it’s time to go custom.OpenFive’s best-in-class SoC IPs cover a wide range of applications from Embedded, AI, Networking to Enterprise markets. Open Five has had a long tradition of authoring and presenting technical papers in various industry forums across the globe, including TSMC Symposiums and OIP, Global Foundries GTC Summit, DAC, CDNLive, SNUG, Embedded Vision Summit, to name a few. Our technical papers have received the best paper awards innumerable times. We encourage our engineers to author technical papers on topics of their interest and also provide guidance and support wherever required.

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