Three strategic chips from Toshiba to its digital logic chip customers

Toshiba is offering its logic-VLSI chip customers with three types of strategic products to address the issue sudden change in design. The types of products include ApP Plus MPD and Structured Array and ApP lite as explained by Toshiba below: Application Processor Plus (ApP Plus), Mobile Peripheral Devices (MPDs): Addition of MPDs and/or ApP Plus to complement the functions necessary for existing application processors realizes performance comparable to that of the latest processors, with minimal design lead times and development costs. Structured Array: Through collaboration with BaySand Inc. of the U.S., Toshiba has structured arrays to satisfy increasing market needs for high performance, high specification and low power technologies. Because it offers performance equivalent to an FPGA, a pilot sample can be quickly supplied using verified RTL data with as short lead time as one fifth—five weeks—a conventional ASIC. Toshiba is also able to supply samples with the same footprint as the FPGA. Also, by decreasing the layers of metal masks, development cost can be reduced significantly. Engineering samples will be available in the first half of FY 2013, mass production will follow in turn. ApP lite: ApP lite products are able to enrich the daily life by cultivating sensing technology or communication technology for transferring data captured by sensors. ApP lite does ...