Achronix

Achronix Semiconductor Corporation

Type| Private
Industry| Semiconductors
Founded| 2004; 22 years ago (2004) in Ithaca, New York, U.S.
Founders|

* Clinton Kelly
* John Lofton Holt
* Virantha Ekanayake
* Rajit Manohar[1]

Headquarters|

Santa Clara, California

United States

Key people

| Robert Blake (CEO)
Virantha Ekanayake (CTO)
Products| FPGA, eFPGA IP
Revenue| >$100M/year

Number of employees

| <200
Website| www.achronix.com

Achronix Semiconductor Corporation is an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California with an additional R&D facility in Bangalore, India,[2][3] and an additional sales office in Shenzhen, China.[4] Achronix is a diversified fabless semiconductor company that sells FPGA products, embedded FPGA (eFPGA) products, system-level products and supporting design tools. Achronix was founded in 2004 in Ithaca, New York based on technology licensed from Cornell University.[5] In 2006, Achronix moved its headquarters to Silicon Valley.[6][7]

Achronix was originally self-funded by several million dollars of founder's capital. Since 2006, Achronix has been funded by a combination of Venture capital funding, private equity funding and debt from traditional lenders.[8] Since Achronix is a private company, the total amount of capital raised to date has not been disclosed, but the total amount of capital raised is thought to be in the $180M-$200M range. Achronix achieved profitability in 2016 and reportedly achieved sales of over $100M YTD in 2017, making it one of the highest growth semiconductor companies globally.[9]

In July 2021 Achronix cancelled its plans to go public through a merger with a special acquisition (SPAC) company ACE Convergence Acquisition Corp due to regulatory approval difficulties. The proposed transaction valued the company at $2.1bn.[10]

## Contents

* 1 Products
* 2 Awards and recognition
* 3 References
* 4 External links
* 5 See also

## Products

* Speedster7t FPGAs \- Standalone FPGA devices built on TSMC 7 nm FinFET technology. It includes a 2D Network-on-Chip (NoC), GDDR6 memory interfaces, up to 72 transceivers operating at 1-112Gbit/s, 400G Ethernet MACs, PCIe Gen5 controllers and up to 1,760 machine learning processors (MLP) for mathematical operations with variable precision number formats.[11]
* Speedcore eFPGAs \- Embedded FPGA IP that is integrated into a SoC or ASIC device. It consists of customer defined amounts of reconfigurable logic blocks, logic and block RAM, DSP blocks and Machine Learning Process (MLP) blocks.[12] Speedcore is supported in TSMC 16FF+, TSMC 7 nm FinFET and TSMC 12FFC is under development.[13]
* VectorPath Accelerator Cards \- PCIe card which is based on the Speedster7t FPGA family. This card includes 400G and 200G network interfaces, 8 GDDR6 memories, and additional expansion ports for custom connectivity.[14]
* ACE \- FPGA development tools which are used to design for all of Achronix's FPGA and eFPGA devices.[15][16]

## Awards and recognition

In August 2018, Achronix was recognized by CIOReview Magazine as one of 20 of the 2018 Most Promising High-Performance Compute Solution Providers.[17]

## References

1. ↑ Ramaswamy, Shankaranarayanan et al. (2009). "A radiation hardened reconfigurable FPGA". 2009 IEEE Aerospace conference. pp. 9–10. doi:10.1109/AERO.2009.4839506. ISBN 978-1-4244-2621-8. https://csl.yale.edu/~rajit/ps/rhfpga.pdf.
2. ↑ "Achronix and Signoff Semiconductors Partner for AI/ML FPGA and eFPGA IP Design Services". https://www.edacafe.com/nbc/articles/1/1862070/Achronix-Signoff-Semiconductors-Partner-AI-ML-FPGA-eFPGA-IP-Design-Services.
3. ↑ "Achronix SPAC Merger? 6 Things to Know About the Semiconductor Play Ahead of Any ACE Deal". 6 January 2021. https://investorplace.com/2021/01/achronix-spac-merger-6-things-to-know-about-the-semiconductor-play-ahead-of-any-ace-deal/.
4. ↑ "Achronix's Speedcore eFPGA Devices to be Highlighted at TSMC 2018 North America, China Technology Events in May". https://www.design-reuse.com/news/43963/achronix-speedcore-efpga-tsmc-2018-north-america.html.
5. ↑ "EE Times updates list of emerging startups". https://www.eetimes.com/ee-times-updates-list-of-emerging-startups-3/.
6. ↑ Nenni, Daniel. "In Their Own Words: Achronix" (in en-US). https://semiwiki.com/efpga/273494-in-their-own-words-achronix/.
7. ↑ "Achronix Grew 700% Last Year...eFPGA is a Thing". https://community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_8/b/breakfast-bytes/posts/achronix.
8. ↑ "ACEV And Achronix Offer Fairly Priced Upside To The Red Hot Semi Market". https://seekingalpha.com/article/4415817-acev-and-achronix-offer-exposure-to-high-growth-efpga-story.
9. ↑ "EFPGA out-growing FPGA at Achronix as revenues soar 700%". 14 June 2017. https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/efpga-ip-driving-revenue-achronix-2017-06/.
10. ↑ Achronix press release, 12 July 2021
11. ↑ says, TotallyLost (2019-05-21). "Achronix 7nm Speedster7t FPGAs" (in en-US). https://www.eejournal.com/article/acrhonix-7nm-speedster7t-fpgas/.
12. ↑ "Achronix – Setting the industry standard for performance, power, and cost leadership.". https://thesiliconreview.com/magazine/profile/achronix-setting-the-industry-standard-for-performance-power-and-cost-leadership.
13. ↑ "Achronix Accelerates eFPGA" (in en-US). 2018-12-05. https://www.eejournal.com/article/achronix-acceleratres-efpga/.
14. ↑ "Achronix and BittWare Accelerate Your Socks Off!" (in en-US). 2019-10-31. https://www.eejournal.com/article/achronix-and-bittware-accelerate-your-socks-off/.
15. ↑ "ACE" (in en-US). https://www.achronix.com/product/ace/.
16. ↑ "How to Design SmartNICs Using FPGAs to Increase Server Compute Capacity". https://www.design-reuse.com/articles/46833/how-to-design-smartnics-using-fpgas-to-increase-server-compute-capacity.html.
17. ↑ "Top 20 HPC Companies - 20 18". https://high-performance-computing.cioreview.com/vendors/top-hpc-companies-2018.html.

## External links

* Intel lets outside chip maker into its fabs. Achronix goes all red, white, and blue // The Register, 1 November 2010
* Exploring the Intel and Achronix Deal // David Kanter, Real World Tech, November 8, 2010
* 22-nm-Chips von Intel heben Startup auf FPGA-Thron // Frank Riemenschneider, Elektronik Net, Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist., 2012-04-24
* Intel’s First Factory Customer Touts Made-in-USA Chips // The Wall Street Journal, Feb 20, 2013
* Breaking the Balance. Achronix FPGAs Disrupt the Status Quo // Kevin Morris, EEJournal, February 26, 2013
* My Take on Achronix & Its Products, Paul Dillien, All programmable planet, 3/11/2013
* Alexander Bachmutsky, System Design for Telecommunication Gateways, chapter "3.5.2.1 Achronix FPGAs"

## See also

* Altera
* Xilinx

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* t
* e

Programmable logic

Concepts|

* ASIC
* SoC
* FPGA
* Logic block
* CPLD
* EPLD
* PLA
* PAL
* GAL
* PSoC
* Reconfigurable computing
* Xputer
* Soft microprocessor
* Circuit underutilization
* High-level synthesis
* Hardware acceleration

Languages|

* Verilog
* A
* AMS
* VHDL
* AMS
* VITAL
* SystemVerilog
* DPI
* SystemC
* AHDL
* Handel-C
* PSL
* UPF
* PALASM
* ABEL
* CUPL
* OpenVera
* C to HDL
* Flow to HDL
* MyHDL
* JHDL
* ELLA

Companies|

* Accellera
* Actel
* Achronix
* AMD
* Aldec
* Atmel
* Cadence
* Cypress
* Duolog
* Forte
* Intel
* Altera
* Lattice
* National
* Mentor Graphics
* Microsemi
* Signetics
* Synopsys
* Magma
* Virage Logic
* Texas Instruments
* Tabula
* Xilinx

Products|

| Hardware|

* iCE
* Stratix
* Virtex

|

Software|

* Intel Quartus Prime
* Xilinx ISE
* Xilinx Vivado
* ModelSim
* VTR
* Simulators

IP|

| Proprietary|

* ARC
* ARM Cortex-M
* LEON
* LatticeMico8
* MicroBlaze
* PicoBlaze
* Nios
* Nios II

|

Open-source|

* JOP
* LatticeMico32
* OpenCores
* OpenRISC
* 1200
* RISC-V
* Zet

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