NEC Electronics America is a leading provider of customized and standard semiconductor products encompassing advanced technology solutions, system solutions, and multi-market ICs. The company's customized solutions offer a range of performance and time-to-market options from cell-based ASICs for high-volume projects to structured ASICs for designs requiring fast and efficient turnaround. The ASIC line is supported with leading process technology, an extensive IP core portfolio including embedded DRAM, and advanced design tools and methodologies.

NEC Electronics' ISSP90 structured ASICs provide a high-performance, cost-competitive platform for developing 90-nm ASICs. The ISSP90 family targets ASIC designs with complexity and performance requirements that rule out FPGAs and with mid-volume production levels that do not justify the NRE costs associated with cell-based ASICs. ISSP90 devices feature a combination of pre-defined metal layers, built-in IP and customizable layers to enable faster design turnaround time and lower development risks. The ISSP90 architecture uses a simplified design flow that incorporates industry-leading EDA tools customized for ISSP90, enabling the rapid development of optimized ASIC designs. More information can be found at www.am.necel.com/issp.

NEC Electronics' eDRAM technology provides a range of macros that supply the high performance and low power consumption required by a variety of applications, including high-end networking devices and consumer electronics products. By allowing IC designers to embed blocks of DRAM in their ASICs, eDRAM eliminates the need for off-chip memory that would otherwise slow system performance, increase system component count and increase power consumption. Our 130 nm eDRAM achieves a random access speed of 314 MHz (latency=1) at 1.2V and random access at 200 MHz under worst-case conditions. The 90-nm generation supports 250-MHz random access at 0.9V. Full compatibility with our standard CMOS manufacturing process results in increased reliability and lower costs. More information can be found at www.am.necel.com/eDRAM.

NEC Electronics' CMOS-12M series is the latest addition to the company's structured ASIC line and is designed to bring the benefits of structured ASIC technology to a broader customer base. Like ISSP products, CMOS-12M devices are optimized to enable fast design turnaround times and lower NRE costs. The CMOS-12M series provides up to two million usable ASIC gates, 2.6 Mb of high-speed embedded SRAM, and system performance up to 200 MHz. This series features fixed, diffused transistor layers that consist of dual-port memory blocks, analog phase-locked loops (APLLs) and digital delay-locked loops (DLLs). More information can be found at www.am.necel.com/asic.