At NFR, we understand that the path through development of an ASIC can be difficult. Therefore, as a means of mitigating risk and eliminating uncertainty for our customers, our team of engineers begins by establishing a clear view of customers expectations through the following:
- Understanding customers ASIC goals and metrics (price, size, performance, timeline, etc.)
- Full system analysis of customers current system to determine best ASIC implementation strategy
- Present a full risk analysis to demonstrate the path to a successful circuit integration
On occasion, customers are ready with full specifications and clear vision of their desired ASIC. In these situations our team of design engineers focuses on the following action items:
- Planning an ASIC development schedule
- Creation of a collaborative feedback loop between customer and design team to ensure desired ASIC specifications are met during all phases of development
- Present the best options for prototyping, testing, and manufacturing to meet the customers production needs
At NFR we like to think from the customers perspective and offer full support to ease integration into customer's product and help reduce time-to-market (TTM). Our post ASIC-development support focuses on:
- Quick prototyping of test wafers prior to full production runs on any design changes
- Development of testing software and hardware to ensure desired functionality during production
- Creation of mass production (MP) prototype wafers to validate final designs before ramping full scale production