About Us

Reliable, Predictable, Fully Custom Silicon

Open-Silicon provides leading edge SoC and ASIC design, open market IP integration, and high-quality silicon manufacturing services to customers worldwide. As a fabless company, Open-Silicon focuses on delivering the most cost-effective, predictable and reliable custom SoC solutions.  We partner with customers using flexible models that sometimes include full turnkey development from spec handoffs, and sometimes include only manufacturing services to take advantage of our volume foundry, test, and packaging pricing.  Since its founding in 2003, the company has focused on raising the bar on SoC execution, measuring the quality of our engineering work and our ability to hit customer schedules and reporting that to the board of directors at every board meeting.  Our executive salaries are paid based upon those metrics, too, ensuring that the entire organization is focused on getting the customer's silicon built on time, and correctly.

A New Flexible Model

Open-Silicon's OpenMODEL™ is the semiconductor industry's first end-to-end custom SoC development solution based on a revolutionary business model that provides a seamless, low-cost, and low-risk alternative to traditional models for complex ASIC design and development.  The OpenMODEL brings freedom of choice to the traditionally inflexible chip supply chain. Designers can choose their foundry, package supplier, and IP from any available on the open market, or they can ask Open-Silicon to propose solutions based upon our IP qualification and design experience.  We optimize the chip supply chain through a wide portfolio of fabrication process technologies, pre-qualified IP, package assembly, and test solutions and a world-class design, product engineering, and operations team. This approach allows our customers to take advantage of an optimized structure that ensures low chip costs.

Maximize IC Investments

By utilizing its broad partner ecosystem and extensive design experience, Open-Silicon has developed an optimized enablement model for derivative IC designs-helping customers maximize the returns on their initial platform IC investments. By outsourcing derivative IC designs with Open-Silicon, chip companies can allow existing design teams to focus on strategic projects, while still enjoying the market position and revenue associated with the derivative ICs.