Let's put it this way... There are no other asic designers with the experience KNC has. Nobody comes close. Several completed asic projects.
KNC is a new company and apart from the current project, they have no direct experience in ASIC design,
ORSOC on the other hand has some limited experience.
Several projects completed? KNC has ZERO completed ASIC projects.
All I see on ORSOC website under ASIC related "projects" is this:
Pre-study and architectural design for ASIC projectORSoC supports a customer with expertise in “pre-study” work for a big ASIC project. The work will result in decision of how to design the product to achieve best possible performance and in the same time assure future proof design that can handle different standards. ORSoC is also involved in work of setting up the design environment including verification strategies.
ASIC design in large ASIC development projectORSoC is assigned to participate in large ASIC development project. The project includes design and verification of one of the bigger cores in the ASIC. This project require expert skills within VHDL design and verification as well as good knowledge of the standards used in the mobile telecom industry. The projects involves many people which makes it important to work in a structured way in a project team and follow the development models sued by the customer.ASIC timing error verificationORSoC helped this customer too investigate why their ASIC was malfunctioning sporadically. This error occurred after they transferred the ASIC to another ASIC process.If you have some "details" with actual links of their previous ASIC projects viz a viz Clients, Project Value ($), production volumes,completion dates etc, I would love to have a read through them,
Whilst I agree that they may appear to be better organized and initially positioned than BFL and AVALON, they still have to deliver a product.
cheers,
kev
