Flex Logix enters FPGA arena

There is a new start-up in the FPGA market – Flex Logix.

Headed up by ex-Rambus CEO Geoff Tate, with three employees and low single digit millions of funding, the company provides FPGA cores to be integrated as hard macros into other chips.

Flex Logix’s core is called EFLX and is made on TSMC’s 28nm HPM process. Earlier this month it got its first prototypes back from TSMC.

The first EFLX core has 2,500 look -up tables which can be tiled to deliver up to 125,000 LUTs.

“We provide all the associated design files and a full high-performance tool set. Available now,” says the Flex Logix website, “want DSP or Block RAM? Want smaller or larger arrays? Different process nodes? We can deliver in 1-3 months.”

Flex Logix uses a different hardware design to conventional FPGA. Instead of an interconnected grid it uses a central bus which connects to the blocks.

This architecture accelerates execution while reducing power, says Flex Logix.

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