EnSilica, Cross Border Tech target Asian, EU markets

EnSilica has teamed up with Cross Border Technologies to boost the sales of its IC design services and system IP solutions in key European and Asian markets that include Germany, France, Japan and Korea. According to them, the move is intended to build on the initial design win successes that EnSilica has recently achieved in these markets, particularly for mixed signal applications.

Headquartered in Germany (Munich area) with subsidiary offices in (Tokyo) Japan and Korea (Seoul), Cross Border Technologies specialises in the provision of business development and representative sales services for technology companies wanting to penetrate these geographic markets quickly and efficiently, it stated.

The appointment of Cross Border Technologies complements EnSilica's existing international focus on the U.S. EnSilica has made significant in-roads in the U.S. and Canada with sales of its eSi-RISC family of highly configurable, embedded processor cores that are particularly suited to low power needs. It has also recently established a subsidiary company in Sunnyvale, California. The appointment further complements the opening of EnSilica's design and verification centre in India last year.

EnSilica's IC design services claim to provide a scalable resource for projects requiring larger teams to accelerate timescales or deal with complex tasks such as turnkey ASIC designs or UVM based functional verification. Cross Border Technologies will represent EnSilica's full range of turnkey ASIC and FPGA design capabilities, from system level design, RTL coding and advanced verification using a range of methodologies including UVM through to analogue/mixed-signal modelling, physical implementation and embedded software services. Additionally, Cross Border Technologies will represent EnSilica's successful portfolio of IP including its eSi-RISC highly configurable 16/32bit embedded processors, eSi-Comms range of communications IP, eSi-Connect range of processor peripherals and eSi-Crypto encryption IP.