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Integrated IP block achieves both high-performance and efficiency; tested and validated system-level design provides superior signal integrity and reliability

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and BEAVERTON, Ore. – August 26, 2014 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) and Northwest Logic today announced they have validated interoperability of the Rambus R+™ DDR4/3 PHY with the Northwest Logic DDR4/3 SDRAM Controller Core. The combined solution provides customers with a differentiated memory subsystem that brings together the superior signal integrity offered by the Rambus R+ PHY along with the robust Northwest Logic controller core for a proven and easy-to-integrate solution.

“Given the industry’s ongoing demand for higher memory performance to manage greater amounts of data, this integrated solution provides customers with an easy way to integrate a tested and validated PHY/controller combination, ideal for networking, computing, and consumer applications requiring the best possible performance,” said Kevin Donnelly, general manager of the Memory and Interface division at Rambus. “We look forward to continuing our partnership with Northwest Logic and ongoing collaboration between our companies.”

“Our DDR4/3 SDRAM Controller Core has been successfully deployed in a wide variety of customer systems demonstrating high reliability and performance,” said Brian Daellenbach, president of Northwest Logic. “We are excited to offer a complete DDR4/3 solution with Rambus ensuring our customers achieve the best possible combined memory solution for their high data demands.”

The Rambus R+ DDR4/3 PHY enables customers to differentiate their offerings by providing industry-leading performance while maintaining full compatibility with industry-standard DDR4 and DDR3 interfaces. The R+ DDR4/3 PHY delivers versatile configuration options for both area- and power-optimized consumer applications and performance-intensive compute applications. The PHY is available in several low-power foundry processes and can be configured for both flip-chip and wire bond packages with data rates ranging from 800 to 3200Mbps.

The Northwest Logic DDR4/3 SDRAM Controller Cores are part of a family of silicon-proven, high-performance, easy-to-use memory controller cores that provide support for DDR4/3/2/1 LPDDR4/3/2/1, HBM, MRAM, RLDRAM 3/II. In addition, the Northwest Logic DDR4/3 SDRAM Controller Core provides high bus efficiency using request reordering, bank management and look-ahead processing. Northwest Logic also provides AXI/AHB bus interface, Error Correction Code (ECC), Read-Modify-Write and Multi-Port Front-End add-on cores to further simplify user designs. These cores support the highest memory clock rates, require minimal gate count and, as part of the solution, Northwest Logic offers a complete Memory Test Package for validation.

Northwest Logic has joined the Rambus Partner Program, which will enable further collaboration on other combined IP blocks offerings between the two companies. For additional information on the Rambus Partner Program, visit rambus.com/partners.

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About Rambus Inc.
Rambus brings invention to market. Our customizable IP cores, architecture licenses, tools, services, and training improve the competitive advantage of our customer’s products while accelerating their time-to-market. Rambus products and innovations capture, secure and move data. For more information, visit rambus.com.

About Northwest Logic
Northwest Logic, founded in 1995 and located in Beaverton, Oregon, provides high-performance, silicon-proven, easy-to-use IP cores including high-performance PCI Express solution (PCI Express 3.0, 2.1 and 1.1 cores and drivers), Memory Interface Solution (DDR4/3/2, LPDDR4/3/2 SDRAM; HBM, MRAM, RLDRAM 3/II), and MIPI Solution (CSI-2, DSI). These solutions support a full range of platforms including ASICs, Structured ASICs and FPGAs. For additional information, visit www.nwlogic.com.

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MSLGROUP
(415) 512-0770
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Northwest Logic, Inc.
Vinitha Seevaratnam
www.nwlogic.com
(503) 533-5800 x308

S2C boasts largest Prototype Ready™ interface library in the industry

BEAVERTON, Oregon and SAN JOSE, Calif. – August 18, 2014 – Northwest Logic and S2C, Inc. announced today that Northwest Logic’s PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 solution, including the Expresso 3.0 Core (PCI Express 3.0 Controller Core) and family of DMA Cores has been validated on S2C’s ASIC prototyping platforms. These cores are now the latest addition to S2C’s Prototype Ready™ IP suite. This validation was done with 8 lanes running at 8 Gbit/sec SERDES rates. The joint validation effort ensures user’s confidence on integrating the high-speed PCIe IP into their SoC designs, shortening the project cycle.

“For systems that demand high speed communications, PCIe Gen3 is must-have technology,” said Toshio Nakama, Chief Executive Officer of S2C. “Partnering with Northwest Logic in the S2C Prototype Ready IP program provides customers immediate access to critical IP, pre-verified and running on a high-speed, high-capacity prototyping platform. Our Prototype Ready IP suite has over 70 pre-verified IP cores and daughter cards. With proven performance and a prototyping reference flow, IP integration is smooth allowing customers to accelerate their SoC design cycle. I am happy to have Northwest Logic’s participation.”

S2C’s unique FPGA-based solutions enable designers to quickly implement and debug their latest high-performance designs, as well as develop and refine system software. S2C’s TAI Logic Module family provides high-speed GTX ports, on-board DDR3 memory, and various interface daughter cards for users to easily verify high-performance interface IP such as PCIe, SATA, and USB.

Northwest Logic provides a complete PCI Express Solution. This solution includes Northwest Logic’s high-performance, easy-to-use, silicon-proven Expresso 3.0/2.1/1.1 Cores for PCI Express, DMA Back-End Core which provides high-performance scatter-gather DMA engines, Drivers (Linux & Windows) and Application software. Additionally, Northwest Logic offers high-performance Memory Controller and MIPI cores.

“We’re very pleased to be working with S2C,” said Brian Daellenbach, President, Northwest Logic. “Customers complete their development work quickly and with confidence by leveraging our high-performance and full-featured PCIe cores, combined with S2C’s off-the-shelf, high-quality prototyping platforms.”

About S2C
Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Jose, California, S2C provides rapid SoC prototyping solutions including:

• Rapid FPGA-based prototyping hardware and automation software
• Prototype Ready™ IP, interfaces and platforms
• System-level design verification and acceleration tools

S2C’s flexible, expandable and reusable hardware architecture combined with transaction-based links to system simulations make S2C’s solution an ideal common platform for major design phases from algorithm exploration, IP design, system integration to compatibility testing. S2C currently has offices or representatives in the US, Europe, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and India. For more information, visit www.s2cinc.com.

About Northwest Logic
Northwest Logic, founded in 1995 and located in Beaverton, Oregon, provides high-performance, silicon-proven, easy-to-use IP cores including high-performance PCI Express solution (PCI Express 3.0, 2.1 and 1.1 cores and drivers), Memory Interface Solution (DDR4/3/2, LPDDR4/3/2 SDRAM; HBM, MRAM, RLDRAM 3/II), and MIPI Solution (CSI-2, DSI). These solutions support a full range of platforms including ASICs, Structured ASICs and FPGAs. For additional information, visit www.nwlogic.com.

Media Contacts:

S2C, Inc.
Ron Green
www.s2cinc.com
(408) 213-8818

Northwest Logic, Inc.
Vinitha Seevaratnam
www.nwlogic.com
(503) 533-5800 x308

Newly optimized PHY supports 1.8V, 2.5V and 3.3V supplies on TSMC 28HPM

CAMARILLO, California., June 4, 2014 – Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, today announced the addition of a new PCI Express^® (PCIe^®) 3.0 PHY IP Platform offering, part of the Snowbush^® IP family, optimized for low power and low latency. Building on fourteen PCIe 3.0 specification successful customer product tape-outs at 40nm, and six PCIe 3.0 specification customers on TSMC 28nm process, this new offering provides customers with lowest power and lowest latency while meeting the reach requirements of compliance PCI Express channels. The PHY provides a differentiated choice of supplies (1.8V, 2.5V or 3.3V) to support legacy applications and ease of integration. The ultra-low power consumption for both normal and low power state modes combined with very low wake up latencies enable customers to reduce system power significantly. These features give customers the best IP choice when developing PCIe interfaces for the storage, server, and high performance computing markets.

Maintaining the lowest possible power in all operating modes, while maintaining the necessary reach, is of overriding concern when using PCI Express architecture in a server application.  Legacy channels can be very lossy and often require additional power consumption. Maintaining the power efficiency across different long and short reach channels is particularly challenging. The new PHY platform from Semtech can support both long reach and short reach channels, delivering compliant performance with the best in class power efficiency of under 7.5pJ/bit in 28nm. As the technology moves to 16 FinFET the power is expected to reduce by as much as 30%.

Storage applications require low-power across all operating modes and low-latency. Providing fast wake up time in the order of 10’s of nano-seconds is critical in storage applications. New enhancements to the L1 sub-state are added to reduce power when the PCI link is idle.

“Semtech’s continued investment into new product offerings helps enable the PCI Express ecosystem,” said Al Yanes, PCI-SIG® President and Chairman. “As a member of PCI-SIG, Semtech, produces PCIe 3.0 products that help ensure the continued success of the PCIe 3.0 architecture in the market.”

“Northwest Logic and our customers have had very positive experiences with the Snowbush IP. This latest Snowbush PCIe PHY further extends Semtech’s strong PHY offering, said Brian Daellenbach, President of Northwest Logic. “We fully support this PHY with our family of PCI Express Controllers and DMA Cores.”

“This new offering gives our customers IP that is differentiated by its performance, power, and stringent latency requirements,” said Kevin Walsh, Worldwide Marketing Director, Snowbush IP. “We expect that the 28nm process node will continue to be very active for server, storage, as well as in high end consumer, for some time to come. By providing robust, silicon proven PHY IP, with significant differentiation for these segments, customers gain both in confidence and in quantifiable performance.”

Pricing and Availability
The PCI Express PHY IP supporting 2.5V and 3.3V is available immediately. The 1.8V will be available in Q3. Pricing depends on configuration and the number of instantiations on in a design. Contact [email protected] for additional details.  Semtech offers comprehensive integration assistance, including field- and factory-based support associated with the purchase of this PHY IP. Information about the Snowbush IP family of products is available at >www.semtech.com/snowbush.

About Semtech
Semtech Corporation is a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors for high-end consumer, computing, communications and industrial equipment.  Products are designed to benefit the engineering community as well as the global community. The company is dedicated to reducing the impact it, and its products, have on the environment. Internal green programs seek to reduce waste through material and manufacturing control, use of green technology and designing for resource reduction. Publicly traded since 1967, Semtech is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol SMTC. For more information, visit www.semtech.com.

About Northwest Logic
Northwest Logic provides high-performance, silicon-proven, easy-to-use PCI Express 3.0/2.1/1.1 cores and DMA cores & drivers.  Northwest Logic and Semtech have collaborated to ensure that our mutual customers receive a fully integrated and validated Northwest Logic controller and Snowbush PHY solution. This solution has been used by many customers, all of which have been first time silicon successful.

About PCI-SIG
PCI-SIG is the consortium that owns and manages PCI specifications as open industry specifications. The organization defines I/O (input/output) specifications consistent with the needs of its members. Currently, PCI-SIG is comprised of nearly 800 industry-leading member companies. To join PCI-SIG, and for a list of the Board of Directors, visit www.pcisig.com.

Contact

Pauline Cadena
Semtech Corporation
(805) 389-2755
[email protected]

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PCI-SIG, PCI Express, PCIe and M-PCIe are trademarks or registered trademarks of PCI-SIG.

Santa Clara, Calif., May 6, 2014 – Achronix Semiconductor Corporation today announced that its 22nm Speedster22i devices have achieved PCI-SIG® compliance with the PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 Specification for x8 lanes. The Speedster22i devices successfully passed the PCI-SIG Compliance and Interoperability Tests at the PCI-SIG workshop and are now included in the PCI-SIG integrators list. Based on Intel’s 22nm Tri-gate technology, Speedster22i devices are the only FPGAs shipping today that contain a wide range of embedded hard IP – including PCI Express Gen3 with integrated DMA Engine, DDR3, 100G Ethernet and Interlaken.

Hardening key interface IP in the Speedster22i devices frees up a substantial portion of the programmable logic fabric, increasing the effective capacity of the FPGA and reducing the overall power consumption. Additionally the embedded hard IP in Speedster22i HD FPGAs eliminates the cost of purchasing, integrating, closing timing and testing the functions that are required when soft IP is used. The PCI Express logic cores used in Speedster22i devices support Gen 1, 2 and 3 in x1, x4 and x8 configurations and are supplied by Northwest Logic. Speedster22i HD devices are the only FPGAs with an integrated DMA engine hardened as part of the PCI Express core. This provides additional cost, performance and power advantages vs. a soft implementation.

“We embedded the Northwest Logic PCI Express IP because it is an industry-leading, silicon-proven solution,” said Steve Mensor, Vice President of Marketing at Achronix. “Our customers require fully proven functional solutions and that’s what we are delivering with the embedded IP in our 22nm Speedster22i devices.”

“Our PCI Express IP has been successfully deployed in hundreds of applications in both hard and soft implementations,” said Brian Daellenbach, President, Northwest Logic. “We are excited to see our IP play a role in the Speedster22i success story.”

The Speedster22i HD1000 and HD680 devices are shipping today and have the following embedded hard IP: PCIe Gen3 x8 controllers, DDR 2/3 controllers, 10/40/100G Ethernet controllers and 12x10G Interlaken controllers. A video demonstration of the Speedster22i hardened PCI Express IP is available at http://www.achronix.com/products/videos/pci-express-demo.html.

About Achronix Semiconductor Corporation
Achronix is a privately held fabless corporation based in Santa Clara, California. Achronix builds application targeted field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) built on Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) process technology. Achronix ACE design tools include integrated support for Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) Synplify Pro. Achronix has sales offices and representatives in the United States, Europe, and China, and has a research and design office in Bangalore, India. Find out more at http://www.achronix.com.

Achronix and Speedster are registered trademarks of Achronix Semiconductor Corporation.
All other brands, product names and marks are the property of their respective owners.

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April 29, 2014 – Northwest Logic and DINI Group announced today that Northwest Logic’s PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 solution, including the Expresso 3.0 Core (PCI Express 3.0 Controller Core) has been validated on DINI Group’s 1, 2, and 4-FPGA ASIC prototyping platforms. This validation was done with 4 lanes running at 5 Gbit/s SERDES rates.

“DINI Group continues to use a variety of Northwest Logic cores to validate our ASIC prototyping platforms.” said Brian Poladian, Senior Engineer at Dini Group, “Northwest Logic provides proven, high-performance solutions that integrate effortlessly into our platforms.  We know that when we use IP from Northwest Logic we’ll be able to focus our efforts on prototyping the design rather than wasting time with someone else’s buggy IP.”

DINI Group is the market leader in FPGA-based ASIC prototyping hardware and is currently shipping ASIC prototyping platforms based on Xilinx and Altera FPGAs. The highlight of current generation is the Xilinx Virtex7-based DNV7F4A, which contains four 7V2000T FPGAs.  This revolutionary stacked-silicon FPGA is the largest shipping today and dramatically eases the difficult task of logic partitioning. The DNV7F4A is capable of prototyping 56 million ASIC gates.  It can also be seamlessly stacked 4 times to support ASIC gate counts in excess of 200 million.

“DINI Group’s FPGA platforms which support 10s of millions of ASIC gates enable developers to effectively prototype large ASIC designs.” said Northwest Logic’s president, Brian Daellenbach. “We are pleased that DINI Group trusts and continues to use our IP to help validate their platforms.   This pre-validation ensures that developers will be able to migrate their PCI Express based designs to these platforms quickly and effectively.”

Northwest Logic provides a complete PCI Express Solution. This solution includes Northwest Logic’s high-performance, easy-to-use, silicon-proven Expresso 3.0/2.1/1.1 Cores for PCI Express, DMA Back-End Core which provides high-performance scatter-gather DMA engines, Drivers (Linux & Windows) and Application software. For a complete system design Northwest Logic optionally provides its high-performance DDR4/3/DDR2/1, LPDDR4/3/2/1 SDRAM and HBM, MRAM, RLDRAM 3/11 Memory Controller Cores and add‐on cores (AXI/AHB, Multi-Port, Reorder, etc.). These solutions are available separately or as a single, fully integrated solution.

About DINI Group
DINI Group is an established leader in large, FPGA-based boards, critical IP, and systems. DINI Group FPGA boards are used in large quantities for ASIC and SOC prototyping, low-latency trading, and high performance computing. From their corporate campus in La Jolla, California, DINI Group employees have supplied over twelve billion ASIC gates.

About Northwest Logic
Northwest Logic, founded in 1995 and located in Beaverton, Oregon, provides high-performance, silicon-proven, easy-to-use IP cores including high-performance PCI Express solution (PCI Express 3.0, 2.1 and 1.1 cores and drivers), Memory Interface Solution (DDR4/3/2, LPDDR4/3/2 SDRAM; HBM, MRAM, RLDRAM 3/II), and MIPI Solution (CSI-2, DSI). These solutions support a full range of platforms including ASICs, Structured ASICs and FPGAs. For additional information, visit www.nwlogic.com.

Media Contacts:
DINI Group
Mike Dini
[email protected]
www.dinigroup.com
(858) 454-3419 x11

Northwest Logic, Inc.
Vinitha Seevaratnam
www.nwlogic.com
(503) 533-5800 x308

Leading semiconductor IP developer, integrator and aggregator awards its inaugural Partner of the Year Award to a leader in the semiconductor interface market

February 27, 2014 – Beaverton, Oregon and Palo Alto, California – ChipStart LLC, a leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property (SIP), recently honored Northwest Logic, a global leader in high-performance interface solutions for the semiconductor industry, with its inaugural Partner of the Year award for 2013.

“Northwest Logic was one of our original partners when we launched ChipStart over 5 years ago. During this time, we have proven our value by increasing our partner design starts and revenue year to year. Our focus on ensuring excellence in supply chain management has enabled us to achieve this success”, said Howard Pakosh, President & CEO of ChipStart.

Mr. Pakosh further stated, “We’re pleased to present this inaugural partner of the year award to Northwest Logic. Northwest Logic met the stringent criteria for this award, including delivering top performance IP, helping ChipStart deliver a superior customer experience and achieving consistently high marks as measured by ChipStart’s own supplier rating system. This system measures on-time delivery, price competitiveness, innovation, quality and evidence of contributions to unique and differentiated solutions, adding value to our customers.”

“ChipStart and Northwest Logic work together to identify and build relationships with a variety of customers. They understand the value our products bring to the market and have a deep set of industry contacts. We have had a fruitful collaboration over the last 5 years and look forward to this collaboration continuing in the future,” said Brian Daellenbach, President of Northwest Logic.

ChipStart promotes Northwest Logic’s high performance memory interface solutions (DDR4, DDR3, …) and high-performance PCI Express solutions (PCIe 3.0, DMA, Bridging, …) to system houses and semiconductor communities throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.

About ChipStart

ChipStart is a semiconductor intellectual property solution company based in Palo Alto, California. ChipStart provides sales, marketing, and support engagement solutions for companies that commerce third party semiconductor intellectual property, high quality pre-verified subsystem solutions, and support design services for ASIC and fabless semiconductor companies. ChipStart solutions are used as critical components in communications, consumer and computing products including switches, routers, modems, cellular phones, set-top boxes, HDTVs, DVD players and PCs. For more information, see www.chip-start.com.

About Northwest Logic

Northwest Logic, founded in 1995 and located in Beaverton, Oregon, provides high-performance, silicon-proven, easy-to-use IP cores including high-performance Memory Interface Solution (DDR4/3/2, LPDDR3/2/1, RLDRAM 3/II), Expresso Solution (PCI Express 3.0/2.1/1.1 cores and drivers including DMA support), and MIPI Solution (CSI-2, DSI). These solutions support a full range of platforms including ASICs, Structured ASICs and FPGAs. For additional information, visit www.nwlogic.com or contact [email protected].

Contacts

Howard M. Pakosh
ChipStart, LLC
[email protected]
Tel: +1 (650) 204 7883

Vinitha Seevaratnam
Northwest Logic
[email protected]
Tel: +1 (503) 533-5800