Democratizing silicon.
Zero ASIC is building the world’s first composable chiplet platform, enabling billions of unique silicon systems to be assembled in hours from a catalog of off-the-shelf chiplets.
First demonstration of fully standardized chiplets, supporting O(m^n) system permutations (m=library size, n=substrate sockets).
Active 3D silicon substrates that decople compute and networking, enabling LEGO like system composition.
Sub 0.1 pj/bit chiplet communication efficiency.
Our platform of scalable processor IP generators enable rapid per application generation of bespoke FPGAs, CPUs, NOCs, and DSPs to meet the most stringent system requirements.
Push button 100% automated IP generation.
Performance scalable from edge to data-center.
Our IP generators have been used to tape out chips at 65nm, 28nm, 16nm, and 12nm.
To lower the barrier to custom ASICs, Zero ASIC developed SiliconCompiler, an open source hardware compilation platform. The principles behind SiliconCompiler are documented in this 2022 DAC paper.
Silicon proven flows supporting a large set of open source and proprietary EDA tools and PDKs.
Optimized cloud scale build infrastructure enable rapid design cycles.
Standardized manifests and design-as-code approach enable guarantee compilation determinism.
No lock in or hidden agendas!
Our Switchboard digital twin platform enables near real-time emulation, allowing teams to optimize the system hardware and software before committing to costly manufacturing cycles. The methodology behind our approach is detailed in this scientific paper.
Our chiplet optimized digital twin platform enables an order of magnitude faster build and run times compared to leading commercial emulators.
Our latency insensitive enable wafer scale designs and beyond.
Standardized model interfaces facilitate seamless transitions between high-level models (e.g. QEMU), cycle-accurate RTL simulators (e.g. Verilator), and hardware-in-the-loop systems (e.g. AWS F1 FPGAs).
Step 1: Emulate
Use Digital Twin platform to optimize hardware and software.
Step 2: Prototype
Build rapid chiplet based prototypes.
Step 3: Optimize
Optimize chiplet composition based on market feedback.
Step 4: Go To Market
Place a production purchase order and start manufacturing.
Profit!
Composable chiplets represent a powerful new design approach with the potential of disrupting a large portion of the semiconductor market. This month I will be presenting ideas for how chiplets can be applied to a number of critical applications.
Today, Zero ASIC is releasing a demo that shows how to create a custom EBRICK, a chiplet that can plug into our SiP design ecosystem. The demo can be found on GitHub.
Chiplets are all the rage these days, even making MIT Technology Review's 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2024. This is pretty incredible for such a niche technology! Unfortunately, as of today chiplets are only accessible to semiconductor mega-corps. To unlock the true power of disaggregated chiplet innovation, we need to drastically reduce the barriers to chiplet based design.
