Faraday is a leading silicon IP and fabless ASIC vendor, leveraging its technology to help simplify the design process of next generation ASSPs and ASICs for network, peripheral interface, and wireless multimedia applications. The company's broad IP portfolio includes 32-bit RISC CPUs, USB 2.0, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Serial ATA, PCI-Express, and Structured ASIC platforms. Using Faraday's leading Structured ASIC technology and platform solutions, customers can program the top few metal layers to create product differentiation and accelerate time-to-market.

Faraday's NetComposer product line for network appliances combines structured ASIC technology with ASSP logic to create a high performance metal programmable SoC so price competitive that its use can even be justified even by ASSP companies. The NetComposer-1 (NC-1) features an optimized architecture for L4-L7 applications, offers 2M usable logic gates and 1M bits of SRAM, and pre-integrates 60% of the pre-verified application-related IP: 450 MHz 32-bit ARM v4 CPU, 133 MHz 64-bit PCI-X controller, 2 Gbe MACs, 150 MHz 32-bit DDR-1 memory, switch fabric, and all required peripherals. As a result, system verification and production lead time is greatly reduced allowing designers to focus on creating value-added applications and product differentiation.

Product Description: PeripheralComposer is the product line Faraday designed especially for peripheral interface applications. The PeripheralComposer-1 (PC-1) integrates pre-verified application-related IP blocks in the base slice, including a 190 MHz 32-bit ARM v4 CPU, USB 2.0, Ethernet, and 802.11b, and comes available with 250K usable logic gates and 0.5M bits of SRAM for customization and differentiation using Faraday's Structured ASIC technology. By combining the flexibility of FPGA with the price and performance advantage of ASSP, the PC-1 becomes a very viable alternative for traditional ASIC customers looking to reduce manufacturing lead time, and decrease time-to-market at a very desirable price.

MediaComposer is Faraday's Structured ASIC product line for wireless multimedia applications. Its base slice features powerful pre-integrated and pre-verified IP essentials such as a 200 MHz 32-bit ARM v4 CPU with D1, MPEG-4 Codec at 30 fps, and peripheral interfaces like PCI, 802.3, USB OTG, and UART, and supports real-time MPEG-4 encoding/decoding. Users can use the top few metal layers to add their logic designs and create differentiation.