ZGlue
zGlue is a fabless semiconductor company that integrates chiplets on its proprietary smart silicon interposers to develop custom silicon chips.
zGlue is the first company to launch an online library of chiplets with detailed design data, design tool, and manufacturing support for a range of applications from embedded devices to high performance computing.[1]
History[edit]
zGlue was founded in 2014 by Jawad Nasrullah and Ming Zhang, semiconductor experts with experience at Intel Corporation and Samsung Electronics. The co-founders recognized the slowdown of Moore's Law[2] and hypothesized that the future of semiconductors would be chiplet-based design on modules[3][4]. They believed that a quicker and simpler chip design process[5] would allow custom chips to better serve the large Internet-of-Things market, including enabling product developers with limited engineering knowledge to design chips.[6]. They also observed that multi-chip modules and custom-design chip stacking were still very costly and time-consuming to productize[7][8].
During 2014 to 2017, zGlue proceeded to develop its technology and its first active silicon substrates[9]. During this period, the company won the Startup of the Year at Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC), was admitted to the StartX accelerator, and received an SBIR grant from National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop their chiplet stacking technology[10]. Delivery was accomplished with support from ASE Group for fabrication of the prototypes and initial testing[9].
In 2018, zGlue released a flagship product, zOrigin, a small, ready-to-use fitness tracking fob that measures heart rate, temperature, and footsteps[11][12]. zGlue also launched its next-generation reference chip design called OmniChip that serves a variety of applications[13]. The company was named one of “10 IoT Companies to Watch in 2018” by EE Times[14].
In 2019, zGlue launched ChipBuilder™, a cloud-based design tool for engineers to design their own custom IC chips[15]. zGlue also released the industry's first ChipletStore, an online portal[1] comprising of chiplet listing and browsing portals integrated with the development software, zGlue ChipBuilder. The company is a member of the OCP Open Domain-Specific Architecture (ODSA) sub-project[16]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Online chiplet store launched". Smart2.0. 2019-09-26. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
- ↑ Theis, Thomas N.; Wong, H.-S. Philip (March 2017). "The End of Moore's Law: A New Beginning for Information Technology". Computing in Science Engineering. 19 (2): 41–50. doi:10.1109/MCSE.2017.29. ISSN 1558-366X.
- ↑ "zGlue launches a configurable system-on-a-chip to help developers implement customized chipsets". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
- ↑ "To Keep Pace With Moore's Law, Chipmakers Turn to 'Chiplets'". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
- ↑ "zGlue pitches 'chiplets' to make custom chips for startups". Reuters. 2019-01-07. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
- ↑ Merritt, Rick. "Startup Stacks IoT Chips Cheaply". EETimes. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
- ↑ Gattiker, A.E.; Maly, W. (October 1994). "Feasibility study of smart substrate multichip modules". Proceedings., International Test Conference: 41–49. doi:10.1109/TEST.1994.527934.
- ↑ Pierce, D. W.; Realff, M. J. (1996-01-01). "Process synthesis and design for multi-chip module fabrication". Computers & Chemical Engineering. European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering-6. 20: S1307–S1315. doi:10.1016/0098-1354(96)00225-6. ISSN 0098-1354.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Full Page Reload". IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
- ↑ "zGlue". www.zglue.com. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
- ↑ Draper, Sam (2018-10-29). "zGlue's zOrigin Wearable Kit Lets You Design Your Own Wearable Device". Wearable Technologies. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
- ↑ "The zOrigin Fitness Tracker Is the First Commercial Implementation of zGlue Chip-Stacking…". Hackster.io. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
- ↑ "zGlue". www.zglue.com. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
- ↑ Merritt, Rick. "10 IoT Companies to Watch in 2018". EETimes. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
- ↑ Harl, Ruth. "zGlue Introduces Custom Chips on Demand to Take Moore's Law Beyond the Possibilities of System-on-Chip – ShowStoppers". Retrieved 2019-11-01.
- ↑ "Chiplet Effort Advances for Workload Acceleration". EnterpriseAI. 2019-09-26. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
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