LSI Logic Introduces its RapidChip Configurable Silicon Slice Strategy

LSI Logic introduced StreamSlice, the first offering in its RapidChip configurable product family aimed at lowering design and manufacturing risk for high-performance, high-density custom chips. The StreamSlice device, which targets high-end switches, routers and other communications system applications, provides 20 Gbps full-duplex throughput. LSI Logic defines a “slice” as a pre-manufactured chip in which all silicon layers have been built, leaving the top five metal layers to be completed with the customer’s unique intellectual property. The new StreamSlice device is customizable by building upon the features already present in the slice, then adding blocks of intellectual property from the LSI Logic CoreWare library along with the customer’s unique logic.http://rapidchip.lsilogic.com