46 | Acquisition International, Global Excellence Awards 2023 Aug22499 42 | Issue 1 2024 Oct23669 Custom Physical IPs Certain to Comply oday, the physical design industry tends to prioritise the production and use of standard foundry IPs, but Californiabased DXCorr Design Inc. is disrupting the sector, instead designing both deep submicron integrated circuits and fully customised VLSI (very-large scale integration) analogue/digital circuits, with these sitting at the very cutting-edge of both performance and industry for those in equally prosperous positions at the forefront of every industry. These offerings also extend to include the foundational IPs and standard cells used by major design firms, underpinning the array of solutions and services available at DXCorr. In the modern world, mobile phones, smartwatches, and other such devices are everywhere, and this has served to rapidly increase the need for an emphasis within the physical design industry on optimising the most amount of power possible, with this being particularly apparent in the field of ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) designs. Across the sector, companies are involved in a race to see which can produce technology with the highest PPAL (power, performance, area, and leakage key-metrics) and the fastest turnaround time. Determined to succeed in this competition, DXCorr consistently increases the complexity of its designs while simultaneously shortening design cycles. Within the company, there is an innate drive to provide solutions that are bespoke, tailored, and can be used effectively by clients to aid them in achieving their goals and easing the burden of adhering to specification compliances. It is for this reason that the team refuse to offer IPs that are straight from the shelf, rather, they prioritise creating processors that are high-quality and to a requested specification of a customer’s choosing. This is present across DXCorr’s main area of focus, developing solutions in the realm of custom memories, which are essential in the field of modern semiconductor development. Across its design processes, the company expertly combines computer-aided design with a series of pioneering algorithms to yield exceptional IP development, and the in-house tools that its team have honed serve to reduce the time it takes to generate layouts, shorten iteration cycles, and adhere totally to required specifications, regardless of how demanding these may be. One particularly noteworthy way that the team at DXCorr ensure these demands are met, and thus subsequent client satisfaction achieved, is by liaising closely with clients throughout the process, with this reducing the risk of losses and increasing the chance of building even more extensive and useful memory structures. A recent example of the company’s commitment to its clients took place when working on what can only be described as a difficult project, when a customer responsible for a start-up that had considerable financial backing requested a three-nanometre project. DXCorr were contacted when the client had realised the scope of the project and the challenges of dealing with this inhouse. By reaching out to DXCorr, technical architecture was swiftly assembled, as was a suitable analogue IP that more than met the necessary requirements had by the client. Keen to showcase their progress to the client’s investors, the firm’s expert team worked tirelessly to successfully complete the project in a tight timeframe. Looking ahead to the future, DXCorr Design Inc. plans to remain abreast of industry developments in order to continue to reinforce its status as a pioneer in the sector, which for 2024, includes aiming to best integrate AI and machine learning into its services and tool development, ultimately streamlining its processes and maintaining its excellent reputation within the field. Through such implementation, it is the hope of the team to be able to automate some of the more repetitive, tedious elements of developing a chip, freeing up the means for its team to focus on other upcoming challenges. Regardless of what the future holds, we wish the team the best of luck, and celebrate their distinction with this award. Contact: Nirmalya Ghosh Company: DXCorr Design Inc. Web Address: https://www.dxcorr.com/ Bolstered by a mission to design the world’s premier embedded physical IP (intellectual property) systems, Physical IP Innovator of the Year 2023 – California awardee DXCorr Design Inc. has established itself as a true frontrunner in the industry, crafting solutions that are specifically designed to support a host of systemon-chip designs, even extending to those with highly-developed memory components, such as static random-access memories (SRAMs) and content-addressable memories multiport (CAMs). By possessing a keen focus on creating and implementing the necessary components to promote continuous success in the field of semiconductor design, DXCorr’s expert solutions can seamlessly match the required power, performance, and area requirements necessary to yield the maximum optimisation from system-onchip designs. T 46 | Acquisition International, Global Excellence Awards 2023
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