SiliconBlue is moving its customised SRAM-based FPGAs, which it calls Custom Mobile Devices, to 40nm, the company’s founder and CEO, Kapil Shankar told the Globalpress Summit Conference in Santa Cruz today.
The company uses a programmable silicon fabric and its own IP and system knowledge to customise FPGAs for mobile telecoms applications.
One of the 40nm families is aimed at sensor management and is called Los Angeles and the other 40nm family is for display and video management and is called San Francisco.
Both Los Angeles and San Francisco will be available later this year.
SiliconBlue has made a particular success in providing chips for sensor management. "There are no dedicated chip-sets for these functions," Shankar told the audience. That application is the largest market for the 1.5m units which the company has shipped this year.
It has also found applications like dual SIM phones, e-Book readers where the technology is constantly changing, dual display digital cameras where the displays have to be synchronized front and back, video expansion and controllers for 3D cameras and in personal navigation devices.