Our Mission
Our mission is to help you win in the marketplace with custom IC solutions.
We help you differentiate by providing the fastest ASIC development times in the industry. We help you protect your development schedule and budget with the ASIC industry's most effective risk mitigation methodology. We help you improve profitability be providing a complete, cost-optimized semiconductor manufacturing supply chain with outstanding quality and commitment to long-term supply.
Differentiate in Custom Silicon
We are seeing a renaissance in custom IC development.
Your custom IC delivers:
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Using ASSPs is Giving Your IP to Your Competition
For years, there was a trend of large semiconductor companies convincing designers that they did not need to differentiate their products in hardware. The pitch was to instead differentiate in software and use common hardware. The large IC companies encouraged design teams to give up their differentiating hardware IP in the form of application-specific standard products or ASSPs. Basically, your design was captured as a custom IC but then the manufacturer was also free to sell your IC to others including your competition. No longer. Today, we are helping companies, like yours, protect their hard earned domain expertise in custom silicon owned 100% by you. |
Fastest Possible ASIC Development Helps You Win
60 days - Project kickoff to working silicon with Triad's Hyper Agile ASIC Program™*
12 months - We deliver custom ICs to production a year ahead of the competition
Note * - Kickoff to working silicon in 60 days is part of Triad's Hyper Agile ASIC Program. Access to the Hyper Agile Program is limited. See if you qualify (here).
Effective Risk and Change Management Protect Your Schedule and Budget
Analog and mixed-signal ASIC developments are complex. While digital ASICs are often able to achieve first-time-right success a high percentage of the time, this is not the case for mixed-signal developments. Mixed-signal custom ICs invariably require one to two revisions to achieve production readiness.
98% of mixed-signal ASICs need at least one re-spin to achieve production readiness**
Re-spins in mixed-signal designs are inevitable. How these re-spins are handled makes projects stay on schedule and budget.
Triad's Agile ASIC methodology is a proven means of managing defects and features. An Agile ASIC can be quickly changed and re-spun at the semiconductor foundry by making a ViaOnly™ single mask layer change.
Agile ASIC Change Management Benefits
Note ** - Less than 2% first-time-right success rate of mixed-signal ICs is the collective experience of hundreds of tape-outs performed by leading semiconductor companies over the past decade. This includes designs at Triad and major IC standard product companies. Companies that regularly specify and design custom mixed-signal IC still require multiple re-spins.
Triad's Agile ASIC methodology is a proven means of managing defects and features. An Agile ASIC can be quickly changed and re-spun at the semiconductor foundry by making a ViaOnly™ single mask layer change.
Agile ASIC Change Management Benefits
- Fix problems in hours versus using Triad's automated mixed-signal change management EDA software
- Add features or fix massive design issues in days
- Make sweeping circuit changes by ViaOnly single mask layer changes
- Respin new custom ICs in 4-weeks ViaOnly single mask fabrication at the foundry
- Minimize respin costs because no new mask sets required to make changes. In fact, Triad includes a 2nd spin in your original design quotation at no additional charge. Others may talk about metal-only fixes for their devices but without Triad's Agile Technology the likelihood of a metal only fix of a mixed-signal design is infinitesimal.
Note ** - Less than 2% first-time-right success rate of mixed-signal ICs is the collective experience of hundreds of tape-outs performed by leading semiconductor companies over the past decade. This includes designs at Triad and major IC standard product companies. Companies that regularly specify and design custom mixed-signal IC still require multiple re-spins.
Improve Profitability Through Custom ICs
We deliver highly cost-optimized solutions. Our goal is to be profitable by helping you be profitable.
We will work with you to develop the ideal custom IC solution for your application and business. Our solution will optimize time-to-market, total-cost-of-ownership, production cost, and development risk.
We will work with you to develop the ideal custom IC solution for your application and business. Our solution will optimize time-to-market, total-cost-of-ownership, production cost, and development risk.
Full-Custom ASICYour design implemented as a traditional full-custom ASIC optimized for size and cost for the highest of volume applications.
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Agile ASIC™Your design implemented as full-custom circuits enhanced with 100% ViaOnly™ re-configurability. Revolutionary time-to-market and change management approach.
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Focused Agile ASIC™Portions of your design implemented as full-custom or standard-cell circuits with focused portions of the design implemented with agile capbilities. This approach works well for designs with heavy digital content.
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Fast-Full-Custom™Your design is initially implemented as an Agile ASIC for rapid prototyping and fastest possible time-to-market. Utilizing our fast-full-custom methodology your design is then converted to a traditional full-custom design for optimized cost at your highest production volumes.
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Custom IC Production Supply Chain Partner
CWe are your custom IC design and manufacturing. Your IC design is customized for your application. And, your IC production is customized for your application and business. We are fabless. This means that our semiconductor fabrication, IC packaging, and IC production testing are outsourced to our partners. We are partnered with global leaders in semiconductor manufacturing. You benefit from our extensive experience with managing such supply chains. We manage our supply chain through relationships built over many years of successfully introducing and ramping to high volume production hundreds of successful designs.
Semiconductor FabricationSemiconductor fabrication partners include: TSMC, MagnaChip, AMS, IBM and TowerJazz. Process geometries span 0.35-micron to 55nm.
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Package AssemblyYour integrated circuit is custom and designed to your specification. Likewise, your package options flexible. We have a wide variety of package options with custom options also available.
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Production TestChoosing the right tester for your production can increase throughput and significantly reduce cost. Like the rest of the supply chain, we optimally match your design to the best test approach.
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