ChipX Inc. today announced a new methodology that enables customers to launch their products quickly with a Structured ASIC and then seamlessly migrate their design to a Standard Cell device once the product features and market potential have been validated. The methodology, called XPath, enables customers to get products to market quickly and inexpensively and will play a valued role in the production of ASICs for a wide variety of applications...

ChipX Inc., announced today it has licensed processor IP cores from ARM. The licensed ARM® processors include the ARM926EJ ™ featuring an enhanced 32-bit RISC CPU, Data and Instruction CACHE, a memory management unit (MMU) and DSP instructions.

ChipX and Ariane Controls, a leading manufacturer of Powerline Communications technology for the energy utilities and building automation markets, announced today an ongoing successful partnership to implement Powerline Communications technology in an easy to use Embedded Array platform.

ChipX has announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. The agreement is effective immediately and provides Nu Horizons customers with global fulfilment and distribution access in North America and Europe to the widest range of ASIC solutions and services from ChipX.

ChipX has announced an ongoing relationship for deploying Aniotek’s critical UFC100-F1 Fieldbus Controller in an easy to use Structured ASIC platform. Aniotek selected the ideal slice from ChipX’s CX3000 family of Structured ASICs supporting 3V and 5V I/O for this application. The UFC100-F1 is a pin- and software-compatible alternative to the Yamaha YTZ420 chip that offers improved jitter tolerance and a larger first-in/first-out (FIFO) mem...

ChipX has announced that the company’s recently acquired OKI ASIC team has been named Supplier of the Year by National Instruments Corporation. The NI Supplier of the Year honour recognizes top performance in many areas, including minimal lead times and cost of ownership,, perfect quality scores, the creation of new processes to support off-shore manufacturing, and superior engineering support on current and next-generation products.

ChipX announced today that Michael Brown has joined the company as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. In this position, Brown will be responsible for driving, growing and managing ChipX’s Worldwide Sales and Customer Service organizations. He will report to the CEO, Amnon Fisher.

ChipX announced today that Jamshed Qamar has joined the company as Vice President of Customer Engineering Services. In this position, Qamar will be responsible for integrating and growing ChipX’ engineering services organization. He will report to the CEO, Amnon Fisher. Ophir Nadir has been promoted to General Manager of ChipX, Israel and will continue in his role as Vice President of Research & Development.

ChipX Inc has announced that it has appointed Robert “RAS” Sheffield to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Sheffield has more than 30 years of executive-level finance experience with both public and private companies. He has served as CFO for eight Silicon Valley companies, including Time-Warner Interactive, Faroudja, Asante Technologies, and Televideo Systems. In November 2001, Sheffield led the successful IPO of Magma Design Automat...

ChipX Inc., provider of differentiated ASIC solutions, today announced it has signed an agreement with Oki Semiconductor Company, a division of Oki America Inc., regarding an asset purchase and business collaboration.

BiTMICRO Networks, maker of intelligent flash IDE/ATA, SCSI, and Fibre Channel and SATA solid state disk storage solutions, has announced its partnership with ChipX. Under this alliance, BiTMICRO will utilize various ChipX Structured ASIC devices in the development of proprietary storage controller ICs such as the Enhanced Datamover and Storage Accelerator (EDSA) direct memory controller and the Logical Unifier of Extensive Transfer Arrays (LUN...

ChipX Inc. has announced it has joined the CE-ATA Workgroup to expand its product offering with CE-ATA solutions. Consumer electronics and portable product developers are always trying to lower system footprint, improve power efficiency and integrate as much of their designs as possible into the smallest number of devices. Hard disk interfaces have not been designed for these applications and are neither small nor efficient.

ChipX Inc and Northwest Logic offer a complete DDR/DDR2 SDRAM solution with speeds up to 667Mbps, including a DDR/DDR2 PHY and DDR/DDR2 SDRAM Controller Cores for use on all CX6000 Structured ASIC products. and Northwest Logic offer a complete DDR/DDR2 SDRAM solution with speeds up to 667Mbps, including a DDR/DDR2 PHY and DDR/DDR2 SDRAM Controller Cores for use on all CX6000 Structured ASIC products.

ChipX, the Structured ASIC leader, today announced that the CX6200 family of Structured ASIC products has passed the stringent USB Implementers Forum compliance test, and is placed on the USB-IF Integrators list.

The CX6000 family of Structured ASICs from ChipX is fabricated in a high performance, eight-metal 0.13-µm process, and is said tothe accelerate time-to-market and reduces risk by integrating silicon proven IP subsystems into the Structured ASIC fabric.

ChipX has announced the CX6100 family of Structured ASICs - the latest addition to the company’s growing portfolio of Structured ASICs with embedded IP.