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Achronix announces silicon prototype success
Achronix Semiconductor Corporation announced that it has completed initial testing on the first silicon of its commercial 90nm FPGA prototype. The testing confirmed that the prototype is capable of running common FPGA performance benchmark designs at up to 1.93 GHZ at 1.2V.
"This is actually a very conservative design," said Dr. Clinton Kelly, Vice President of Advanced Research at Achronix. "We have already begun work on our 90nm commercial product, and we expect an additional 20% speed increase over this prototype device while keeping our power requirements at a fraction of that required by other FPGAs." "The hard problems are now solved and the performance of the hardware and software architecture is proven," said Dr. Rajit Manohar, Chief Technology Officer at Achronix. The Company is now focusing on completing solution features including high speed interfaces, user-selectable speed and power parameters, and support of existing high performance third party FPGA synthesis tools. These enhancements are expected to be completed over the next year and the Company is expecting to release sample quantities of a multi-million gate commercial product in 2007.
