Achronix
Revolutionizing Semiconductor Industry with High-Performance FPGAs

The development of hardware landscape in electronics industry has been immense in terms of research. Due to this development, emerged the need for a flexible processor with a variable hardware structure programmable according to user applications over the conventional processors. This requirement of hardware led to the inception of a new segment of customer-configurable field programmable integrated circuits called Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). However, traditional FPGAs have bottlenecks in terms of performance like flexibility to implement varied digital designs, adaption with workload variations, and high degree of parallelism, inexpensive and quick manufacture. To overcome the bottlenecks of traditional standalone FPGAs, the market is need of modernized and advanced FPGAs. That’s where Achronix comes into the picture and offers high-performance FPGA and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) solutions including programmable FPGA fabrics, discrete high-performance and high-density FPGAs with hardwired system-level blocks, datacenter and High Performance Computing (HPC) hardware accelerator boards, and best-in-class Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software supporting all Achronix products.

“Achronix can design, build and demonstrate the highest-performance, fully functional semiconductor products on the most advanced processes technology available,” states Robert Blake, President and CEO of Achronix. The company’s delivery of innovations in programmable logic segment has set a new standard in the industry in terms of performance, power, and cost leadership. It developed the industry’s only silicon-proven embedded FPGA technology and was the first to deliver high-density FPGAs with an embedded system-level IP with the introduction of Speedster22i family in 2013. Further, the company went ahead to innovate and launch new products like Speedcore, Speedchip, Speedster22i, PCIe Accelerator and Speedster7t. Recently, Achronix announced the availability of Speedcore custom blocks, which massively improve performance, power and die area efficiency, while enabling functionality which was impossible in standalone FPGAs. The production availability of Speedcore embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP for integration into customers’ System-on-Chips (SoCs), enabled the possibility of seamless computation and network acceleration applications. Following the unprecedented demand for Speedcore IP, Achronix launched Speedchip FPGA chiplets and Speedster22i FPGAs.

Speedchip is optimized FPGA chiplets for embedding in advanced System-in-Package (SiP) solutions via organic substrate; Speedster22i is high-performance and high-density FPGAs with embedded system IP for communication applications including 10G/100G ethernet. PCIe Accelerator is a high memory bandwidth, FPGA-based PCIe add-in card for high-speed acceleration applications. All of Achronix products are supported by Achronix’s robust and proven Achronix CAD Environment (ACE) design tools which work in conjunction with industry-standard synthesis tools.

Achronix can design, build and demonstrate the highest-performance, fully functional semiconductor products on the most advanced processes technology available

The recent release Speedster7t meets the growing demands of Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning (AI/ML) and high-bandwidth data acceleration applications. “The Speedster7t family is the fusion of flexible FPGA technology with ASIC core efficiency to deliver a new “FPGA+” class of chips that truly push the boundaries of HPC acceleration,” remarks Blake.

Disrupting the electronic industry in semiconductor technology since 2004, Achronix has a rapidly growing customer base. Achronix announced immediate availability of Speedcore Gen4 eFPGA IP for AI/ML and networking hardware acceleration applications with added new Machine Learning Processor (MLP) delivering 300% higher system performance for AI/ML applications. “Our new architecture adds the flexibility and re-programmability of our proven FPGA technology to support exploding demand for new AI/ML and high data bandwidth applications,” says Blake. In yet another instance, Achronix introduces a ground-breaking FPGA family, delivering new levels of performance with adaptability for high-bandwidth data acceleration applications. With rapidly evolving use cases for AI/ML, new solutions are in demand to address the varying requirements of high performance, flexibility and time to market. With the future market revolving around AI/ML, Achronix has innovations centered on it in its pipeline. “We are at the beginning of a high-growth phase of intelligent, self-learning computation that will have broad impacts on all aspects of our daily lives”.