written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . september 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message open silicon industry semiconductors electronics founded 2003 headquarters milpitas california usa products asics system on a chip integrated circuits number of employees 400 as of 2013 website www.open silicon.com open silicon is a semiconductor solutions company founded in 2003 to provide traditional asic design derivative and platform socs and production handoffs where open silicon provides manufacturing operations . contents 1 corporate history 2 locations 3 industry impact 4 products and services 5 high speed processor design 6 references 7 external links corporate history edit open silicon was founded in 2003 . the idea was to select best in class technology from the open market and apply it through an engineering process focused on three goals low cost high schedule predictability and high reliability . initial funding was provided by sequoia capital norwest venture partners and interwest partners . 1 additional funding from those partners and new partners artis capital and bridgescale partners brought the total venture funding in four rounds of financing to almost 46m . in december 2007 unicorn investment bank acquired 75 % of open silicon for 190m with the rest of the company employee owned . 2 in may 2007 open silicon acquired zenasis technologies a maker of processor optimization eda software . 3 this technology has become the core of open silicon s max technologies . 4 this technology has also been expanded by open silicon to focus on low power design and process variability management . 5 in 2008 and 2009 open silicon received the most respected private semiconductor company award from the global semiconductor alliance gsa . 6 7 in 2009 open silicon acquired design services firm silicon logic engineering sle . this acquisition has enhanced the company s derivative ic design capabilities . 8 in 2010 the company opened new facilities in research triangle park north carolina and pune india to provide additional support for derivative ic design . in 2012 open silicon acquired and grew substantial design operations in pakistan and taiwan . locations edit open silicon has the following principal locations milpitas ca north andover ma bangalore india yokohama japan kaohsiung taiwan hsinchu taiwan pune india industry impact edit open silicon has been instrumental in establishing a new semiconductor segment known as the fabless asic market . core to the company is the openmodel which allows customers to view and make decisions about their asic supply chain . in the five years from 2003 2008 open silicon completed more than 100 designs . 9 with its front end design capabilities growing 10 11 open silicon now provides derivative design solutions for the new design lite industry segment . in 2011 open silicon announced a relationship with micron to develop derivative ic products for the micron hybrid memory cube technology 12 and later became a founding member of the hybrid memory cube consortium . 13 products and services edit open silicon s business model is called the openmodel . 14 the openmodel gives customers the option of selecting their ip from the open market with open silicon qualifying and supporting that ip . in addition to ip open silicon has relationships with multiple foundries and test and packaging suppliers to maximize customer flexibility . as part of the openmodel open silicon offers a variety of ic design and manufacturing services including product definition design engineering wafer fabrication packaging and assembly and test engineering . the company offers asic products at 180 nm 130 nm 90 nm 65 nm and 45 40 nm 28 nm cmos process nodes from multiple silicon foundries 15 including tsmc 16 globalfoundries 17 smic and fujitsu . ip partners include almost all major open market sources . open silicon was the first adopter of synopsys s ip oem partner program . 18 high speed processor design edit open silicon uses the coremax tool initially acquired from zenasis technologies but since expanded for high speed processor design . open silicon and partners were able to demonstrate 65 nm processor performance of 1.1 ghz worst case 19 and 40 nm processor performance of over 2.4 ghz typical case . 20 open silicon created a center of excellence for arm technology in 2011 to combine all of the various physical design processor hardening and system design efforts into a single organization . 21 in 2012 open silicon further expanded the center to include architectural analysis and modeling pre silicon prototyping embedded software co silicon system design and test and post silicon validation . 22 utilizing both cadence and synopsys place and route tools for processor optimization in 2012 open silicon was able to achieve 2.2 ghz in 28 nm with an arm dual core cortex a9 23 and 1.3 ghz for a low power 40 nm quad core implementation . 24 references edit open silicon inc. secures 19.5 million in funding . march 29 2004 . bahrain bank buys stake in open silicon . december 24 2007 . open silicon acquires zenasis hybrid optimization technology . may 7 2007 . open silicon introduces max technologies . november 11 2008 . when an asic vendor partners with an eda vendor a new model . november 12 2008 . global semiconductor alliance announces its 2008 award recipients . december 15 2008 . global semiconductor alliance announces its 2009 award recipients . december 14 2009 . open silicon acquires design services firm . january 12 2010 . open silicon inc. announces 100th design tapeout . september 10 2008 . open silicon expands presence in india with new soc and systems solution center . november 1 2010 . open silicon expands asic architecture and rtl design team to support derivative soc solutions . october 27 2010 . open silicon and micron align to deliver next generation memory technology . june 7 2011 . hybrid memory cube consortium participants . open silicon thriving and hiring in downturn . january 12 2009 . open silicon partners . open silicon joins tsmc s design center alliance . august 26 2005 . open silicon and globalfoudries tapeout 28nm . synopsys unveils ip oem partner program with arrow electronics global unichip and open silicon . november 20 2008 . open silicon mips technologies and virage logic achieve high performance asic processor design . october 27 2009 . open silicon mips technologies and dolphin technology achieve asic cpu performance of over 2.4 ghz in tsmc 40nm . september 21 2010 . open silicon launches arm center of excellence . october 24 2011 . open silicon expands semiconductor design solutions . april 26 2012 . cadence encounter technologies enable open silicon to reach 2.2 ghz performance on 28nm arm dual core cortex a9 processor . november 6 2012 . open silicon uses synopsys ic compiler to achieve 1.3 ghz frequency on quad core arm cortex a9 mpcore processor . october 2 2012 . external links edit open silicon homepage retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title open silicon & oldid 731692860 categories companies established in 2003fabless semiconductor companieshidden categories articles with a promotional tone from september 2014all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 26 july 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