September 12, 2016

TOKYO– Toshiba Corporation's (TOKYO: 6502) Storage & Electronic Devices Solutions Company announced today the immediate availability of “Easy Prototyping”, a solution that allows reuse of the design assets required to develop large scale custom SoC*1 with FPGA prototyping*2.  Adoption of the solution dramatically shortens the development time from FPGA prototyping to custom SoC development. Easy Prototyping is available on Toshiba’s ASIC and FFSA™ *3 platforms.

In conventional FPGA prototyping, SoC designers cannot reuse FPGA hardware and software design assets for custom SoC development because FPGA libraries*4 and IPs*5 are FPGA specific. Easy Prototyping facilitates the reuse of these assets for the custom SoC design by adapting the FPGA prototyping libraries leveraging Toshiba’s libraries and IP subsystems*6. This enables designers to identify the interface and easily switch between FPGA prototyping and SoC implementation with the Toshiba provided wrapper logic*7.

Toshiba supports third party IPs that have good track record in FPGA and provides these IPs as subsystems which are verified for connectivity with Toshiba’s custom SoC solutions. 10 Gigabit Ethernet (MorethanIP), PCI Express®*8 3.0/2.1/1.1 (Northwest Logic), DDR3 SDRAM*9 controller (Northwest Logic) are available immediately for Easy Prototyping and the line-up is being expanded to cover additional solutions.

Going forward, Toshiba will continue to provide solutions that help customers to optimize system design and achieve timely product development.

Please check below web site for the details.

http://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/product/custom-soc/development-solutions/prototyping.html?mm=cp160913&no=04

*1: System on Chip for specific application which is not programmable after manufacturing. Its performance is superior to FPGA in general.

*2: A verification method for hardware design as well as early software and firmware co-design using FPGA, a device that is programmable after manufacture.

*3: An innovative technology enables Toshiba to develop integrated circuits with much lower development costs and much shorter development turn-around times by reducing the number of metal layers that must be customized.

http://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/product/custom-soc/platform/ffsa.html?mm=cp160913&no=05

*4: Database to develop SoC.

*5: Intellectual Property that is a reusable function block for SoC development.

*6: The IP solution consists of IPs required to develop SoC. It is designed to be easy to implement into high-speed interface subsystems.

*7: A circuit block to absorb differences such as interfaces and libraries between FPGA and ASIC/FFSA™.

*8: Industry standard, I/O serial interface broadly used in computing system.

*9: A DRAM industry standard used as main memory for PC and Server.

To find out more about Toshiba custom SoC solutions, visit

http://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/product/custom-soc.html?mm=cp160913&no=06

*PCI Express is a registered trademark of PCI-SIG.

*FFSA is a trademark of Toshiba Corporation

*All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

*Information in this document, including product prices and specifications, content of services and contact information, is current on the date of the announcement but is subject to change without prior notice.

Toshiba Corporation- Semiconductor and Storage Products Company　Website＞
http://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en?mm=cp160913&no=07

Visit Chip1Stop Chinese site
Visit Chip1Stop Korean site
Visit Chip1Stop English site
Visit Chip1Stop German site

Companies Website:
http://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en?mm=cp160913&no=07

Toshiba News Release

• Toshiba Starts Test-Sample Shipments of a Bare Die 1200V SiC MOSFET with Low On-Resistance and High Reliability, for Use in Automotive Traction Inverters

  2024/11/13Toshiba  Automotive

• Toshiba Starts Sample Shipments of Gate Driver IC for Three-Phase Brushless DC Motors in Diverse Automotive Applications

  2024/11/01Toshiba  Automotive

• Toshiba Releases Automotive Photorelay with Output Withstand Voltage of 900V, Housed in a Small Package

  2024/10/28Toshiba  Automotive

• Toshiba’s 1200V Additions to its Lineup of Third-Generation SiC Schottky Barrier Diodes Will Contribute to High Efficiency in Industrial Power Equipment

  2024/09/26Toshiba  Power Supply

• Toshiba Is Sampling an Automotive CXPI Responder Interface IC that Contributes to Shorter Software Development Times

  2024/09/05Toshiba  Automotive

Related News Release

• Toshiba Releases 100V N-Channel Power MOSFET That Supports Miniaturization of Power Supply Circuits

  2023/06/30  Toshiba  Logic/PLD

• Commutation Encoder Supports 9 mm to 15.875 mm BLDC Motor Shafts

  2020/03/05  Same Sky (formerly CUI Devices)  Logic/PLD

• Microsemi's SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs Successfully Adopted by Extreme Engineering Solutions, Enabling Company to Provide Advanced Security Features

  2016/03/18  Microsemi  Logic/PLD

• Microsemi Announces New Secured FPGA Production Programming Solution to Prevent Overbuilding, Cloning, Reverse Engineering, Malware Insertion and Other Security Threats

  2016/03/16  Microsemi  Logic/PLD

• Microsemi's Libero SoC v11.7 Software Increases Security, Usability and Efficiency for FPGA Designs, Enabling Faster Time-to-Market

  2016/03/11  Microsemi  Logic/PLD