Manufacturing Services and SMS

Taking an ASIC design from concept to silicon is a complex process. To reduce risk and cost, eSilicon offers comprehensive services managed by in-house domain experts and a proprietary infrastructure to manage the process, tailored to your design’s specific requirements.

The key is our integrated approach: we incorporate ASIC design, productization and manufacturing services into a seamless environment, all brought together by the patented eSilicon^® Enterprise^™ infrastructure, which enables superior predictability and fast time-to-market for your chip design.

Based on your specific design requirements, we create a unique semiconductor value chain that includes:

• ASIC chip design
• Custom IP and value-added third-party IP
• Productization
• Wafer fabrication
• Package, assembly and test
• Volume manufacturing services

Semiconductor Manufacturing Services

Our traditional ASIC engagements start at some point along the design continuum. Increasingly, customers are bringing us proven, tested chips and asking us to manage ongoing volume production. In an environment of scarce resources, fabless semiconductor companies (FSCs) and OEMs are increasingly choosing to focus their efforts on R&D, not operations. To address this need, we launched our Semiconductor Manufacturing Services (SMS) business unit in 2010.

SMS Offerings

Semiconductor manufacturing services are an option for FSCs and OEMs who want to get out from under the burden of managing volume ASIC production. There are two ways we can engage:

• Handoff of existing products: A chip that has already been in volume production. Characterization and qualification are complete. Yield is stable
• Pre-production handoff: Characterization, qualification and test program (including test fixtures) are complete; the chip is ready to start volume production

Why SMS?

• Operational competitive edge:
  • eSilicon delivers in-house domain expertise in quality, reliability, manufacturing, product test, packaging, and volume production
• Re-allocation of your resources from production management to innovation:
  • eSilicon optimizes overall quality while reducing cost
  • eSilicon manages logistics and capacity
• Overhead reduction with significant savings in operating expenses and cost of goods sold:
  • Improved economies of scale (chips, IP, systems, tools) and increased purchasing leverage at world-class suppliers
  • Work in process (WIP) financing burden lifted
• Precision ASIC manufacturing:
  • Better visibility through eSilicon’s sophisticated infrastructure: tools, processes and people
  • eSilicon Access^® production management tool gives you and our planners current data on WIP throughout the entire manufacturing process, from PO to packaged, tested parts
• Instant scalability:
  • We have the infrastructure in place to support your rapid growth — you don’t need to staff up to ramp up

Please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to find out if our SMS offering is a fit for your company, or to request an eSilicon Access production management tool demonstration.