European design house joins Intel foundry alliances
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IC’Alps in France has joined the Intel Foundry Accelerator Design Services Alliance and Value Chain Alliance programmes for 1.8nm designs.
The design house, which is being acquired by SealSQ in Switzerland, specialises in the design and supply of exclusive and custom-made ASICs. It marks a significant milestone in offering custom IC solutions on the Intel 18A technology with qualification to automotive, medical, mil/aero, and security standards. Intel FOundry has run 100 chip tapeouts on the process and is planning volume production towards the end of this year. Further qualification will take longer.
This partnership aims to accelerate advanced ASIC design, production and time-to-market for Intel Foundry’s customers. Alliance membership is achieved following a thorough audit during which processes, methods, and design flows, as well as past achievements. The agreement validates the technical expertise of IC’Alps team.
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IC’Alps has the expertise to manage the architecture of the ASIC or specific sub-bloc to be integrated later in an integrated circuit. This includes the front-end design and associated verification effort, the back-end covering all the physical implementation up to the sign-off having everything in hand to manufacture the device (GDSII file), and managing the tests when the silicon is back from fab (test plan, test environment, measurements and comparison versus simulations results).
In the Value Chain Alliance, IC’Alps offers full turnkey services where engagement with end customer starts at the system-level specification stage and extends all the way to managing orders for the customer.
The acquisition by SealSQ will allow the company to propose state-of-the-art solutions including NIST compliant post-quantum cryptography features.
“We are honoured to integrate this newly formed Intel Foundry’s Value Chain Alliance fostering state-of-the-art skills, processes and expertise”, said Lucille Engels, COO of IC’Alps. “In addition to facilitating Intel Foundry’s customers advanced chip designs, IC’Alps will gain useful hands-on experience on Intel Foundry’s advanced processes and will be able to efficiently support innovation within this Alliances.”
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