Date: 30/10/2009

Mitsubishi selects eASIC's Nextreme ASICs for its Display Wall Cube Systems

Mitsubishi Electric has selected eASIC's Nextreme ASIC devices for its Seventy Series Display Wall Cube Systems, which replaces the existing gate-arrays and improve the video processing system performance by 50%.

Cube Display Wall Systems are big and wide displays fixed to walls inside the control rooms for use in mission-critical applications such as utility control rooms, power stations, traffic control centers and crisis management suites.

Nextreme is a family of NEW ASIC devices, manufactured on 90nm CMOS process by Fujitsu, eASIC's foundry partner. Nextreme features devices ranging from 350K to 5M gates.

eASIC's NEW ASICs feature a 5-week turnaround time from tape-out to prototypes, low up-front development costs, making them alternative to gate array and standard cell ASICs.

"We are excited to have a path to developing ASIC solutions quickly that are low in up-front development cost, quick to develop and gets us to market in rapid time to fully exploit our market opportunities." said Mr. Shigenori Shibue, Manager Development Section Image & Information Systems Department at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Kyoto Works. "We see eASIC's Nextreme as a platform that we can use to create new high performance product derivatives quickly to respond to changing market needs, yet still be very competitive in volume production." added Mr. Shibue.

"We are thrilled to be able to offer customers like Mitsubishi Electric a low risk alternative to designing ASICs," said Jasbinder Bhoot, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at eASIC Corporation. "Helping our customers to deliver competitive solutions quickly, in turn helps their customers to loosen the grip on their purse strings. We are focusing on doing our part in helping revive our stagnant economy, one customer at a time," added Bhoot.