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April 18, 2013

ViaDesigner.com to Reduce Mixed-Signal IC Development Costs by 99%

ViaDesigner, Inc. announces the launch of www.ViaDesigner.com a global community for mixed-signal circuit designers who are pursuing the goal of designing and fabricating their own custom chips at affordable prices.

The ViaDesigner.com community will have access to the award-wining ViaDesigner™ mixed-signal design and simulation software. ViaDesigner software enables system-level designers to design custom ICs. The ViaDesigner software contains powerful, high-level design features that empower systems engineers to become ViaASIC™ chip designers without having to know the low level details of full custom design.

Throughout 2013, ViaDesigner.com community members will be able to:

  • Design & simulate sophisticated mixed-signal circuits in their desktop ViaDesigner software
  • Learn about mixed-signal circuit design techniques at ViaDesigner.com
  • Ask questions and get community provided answers from the forums and knowledgebase
  • Share design ideas and complete reference designs
  • Form teams to work on mixed-signal projects
  • Compete in ViaDesigner design contests

In 2014, the ViaDesigner.com community will tape-out community defined chips utilizing via configurable array (VCA) technology from Triad Semiconductor.

“We are encouraged about the excitement that ViaDesigner.com is already generating in the mixed-signal circuit design community” stated Reid Wender, founder of ViaDesigner.com “Every month hundreds of users have been downloading ViaDesigner software even when ViaDesigner.com was little more than a download form.”

Analog, digital and mixed-signal designers interested in reducing the cost of chip development by 99% are encouraged to register at www.ViaDesigner.com. Registered users can download ViaDesigner software, browse reference designs, upload and download designs, ask questions and get answers to their mixed-signal design questions.

ViaDesigner users will target their designs to Triad Semiconductor’s via-configurable array (VCA) solutions. These single-mask configurable arrays greatly reduce the cost of developing custom mixed-signal ICs. Customer’s designs are configured onto one of dozens of existing Triad VCAs converting the VCA into a customized ViaASIC™ optimized to the customer’s specifications.

The goal of ViaDesigner.com is to give systems-engineers (non-IC designers) the ability to prototype their own mixed-signal ICs for less than $10,000.

About ViaDesigner.com

ViaDesigner.com is the website community of ViaDesigner, Inc. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC ViaDesigner, Inc. is focused on driving down the cost of mixed signal chip design. ViaDesigner, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Triad Semiconductor, Inc., www.TriadSemi.com, the world’s leading supplier of via-configurable array (VCA) technology. Triad is a fabless supplier of ViaASIC mixed-signal IC solutions to the defense, aerospace, industrial, medical, automotive and consumer markets.

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