Global Foundries, Santa Clara, Calif., announces a partnership with Invecas Inc., also of Santa Clara, a newly formed design services provider focused on accelerating customer introduction of new products on leading-edge semiconductor process technologies. Invecas will operate multiple system-on-chip (SoC) design service centers in both the United States and India to provide exclusive support for GlobalFoundries customers.
This new partnership is intended to serve a variety of customers across multiple market segments, from small fabless companies with limited internal resources to large systems companies seeking to differentiate their products through customized silicon. Invecas will focus on offering design services for Global Foundries leading-edge processes, including 14nm FinFET, addressing multiple market segments including high-performance computing, consumer electronics, and mobile communications.
Invecas will operate design service centers in Santa Clara, Calif., Burlington, Vt., Bangalore, India, and Hyderabad, India. Design centers will be staffed by more than 600 engineers and will provide customers with GlobalFoundries-focused design services. Customers will have access to a broad spectrum of services such as system design, embedded software design, SoC design and verification, and physical implementation.
In addition to traditional design services, Invecas will offer customers a wide selection of design IP across various GlobalFoundries process nodes. The IP offerings include standard cells, IOs, memories, analog, and complex interface IP solutions.
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