Save $16.7bn – buy an Achronix eFPGA licence

Or you could license an FPGA core from Achronix.

What’s more, while Intel is putting Altera dies into dual-die packages containing a Xeon die and an FPGA die – while saying it “eventually” intends to put the FPGA core on the same die as the processor – Achronix is already integrating FPGA cores onto SoC die.

“We are putting Speedcore (Achronix’ FPGA core) on die today,” says Robert Blake, CEO of Achronix.

This does rather change the game. No one else is offering this capability.

“Over the years, different companies have talked about eFPGA products, but Achronix Speedcore is the first eFPGA IP to ship to end customers, and it is a game changer” says Blake, “Achronix was the first company to deliver high density FPGAs with embedded system level IP. We are using that same proven methodology to deliver our eFPGA to customers who want to combine all the efficiencies of ASIC design with the flexibility of eFPGA programmable hardware accelerators on the same chip.”

Asked why it hadn’t been done before, replies Blake, “in the past it was too expensive. It took too much silicon area on the die to implement a useful function. Now, with 16nm, all of a sudden these things make sense. FPGAs are poised to be used in a much broader way.”