From its origins in 1989 as a design house for application-specific integrated circuits, ASIC Design Services is today a leading supplier of technically complex electronic components while still retaining its core skills in the specialised field of ASIC and FPGA design. Electronic graduate engineers provide design expertise and extensive FAE support for the products the company offers.
ASIC Design Services assists leading South African OEMs develop technologically advanced products for the local and international market. The company offers a design house service, training programs and design audits for ASIC and FPGA designs.
Particular expertise has been developed in the following fields:
* PCI.
* DES encryption.
* Fault/noise tolerant communications.
* Power/energy metering.
* Position monitoring.
* Telecommunications.
* Telephony.
* Serial communications buses (including 1553B, I2C and SPI).
* Video/image processing.
* System integration.
Recent product development includes PCILite, an easy-to-use PCI Interface solution. PCILite greatly simplifies the connection of peripherals to the PCI bus. Because of the simplicity of PCILite, a PCI application can be developed in a very short space of time.
ASIC Design Services represents the following companies:
* Actel Corporation, the programmable ASIC solutions company. Programmable ASICs (application specific integrated circuits) offer the benefits of both conventional ASICs (single chip and low power and price) and programmable logic devices (faster time to market plus reduced design and inventory risks). For customers requiring discrete programmable logic solutions, Actel's FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) provide design security, are nonvolatile and 'live at power up'. For customers requiring embedded programmable solutions, Actel's VariCore intellectual property cores enable the integration of reprogrammable logic functions in ASICs or ASSPs (application specific standard products) on standard processes.
ASIC Design Services provides a design bureau service, training courses for designing Actel FPGAs, and a programming service for Actel FPGAs. The digital systems design expertise that the company offers has proved of great value to customers who do not have specialist skills in this field.
Country-wide Actel seminars, focusing on ProASIC the new flash-based non-volatile reprogrammable gate array and eX the low power CPLD alternative, will be held during the first week of April at:
** University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, 2 April.
** BIFSA Conference Centre, Midrand, 4 April.
** Westville Inn Hotel, Durban, 6 April.
* Halo Electronics, a leading global supplier of LAN and telecom magnetics, is committed to providing the communications industry next generation solutions today.
* Innoveda, a leading provider of innovative software and services that help engineers visualise, design and build advanced electronic systems for companies participating in the telecommunications, transportation, computers and consumer electronics markets. The company enjoys a rich heritage of technical innovation from the merger of Viewlogic Systems and Summit Design that formed Innoveda, and the subsequent merger of Innoveda and PADS Software. These unions form the foundation of Innoveda's comprehensive electronic product solutions for system-level design, board design and electromechanical design.
* Intel, the world's largest chip maker, and a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. ASIC Design Services represents Intel products from the networking, telecom, Internet-working and optical network business units. These products find application in E1/T1, MDSL/HDSL/HDLS2, SDH/Sonet/ATM and Ethernet/Fast Ethernet.
For further information about any of these products or to book a place for the Actel seminar, contact Kobus van Rooyen, (011) 315 8316, [email protected]
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