FLEX LOGIX COLLABORATING WITH
      
        MICROSOFT TO HELP BUILD SECURE
     
         STATE-OF-THE-ART CHIPS FOR US
            
           DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD) 


The proven success of Flex Logix's eFPGA in over a dozen successful
tape-outs demonstrates its eFPGA IP maturity which is critical to be part
of the core technology used in the DoD's Rapid Assured Microelectronics
Prototypes (RAMP)


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – July 11, 2022 –  Flex Logix® Technologies, Inc., the leading supplier
of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP, architecture and software, announced today that it has been
selected to be part of a team of microelectronic industry leaders, led by Microsoft, to build a chip
development platform with the utmost regard for security as demonstrated by the DoD RAMP
Project. Flex Logix was chosen for its leading embedded (eFPGA) technology that enables chips to
be reconfigurable after tape-out, allowing companies to adapt to new requirements, changing
standards and protocols as needed. 


“Security can mean a lot of different things. For eFPGA, it means providing a means for keeping
circuitry secret by programming the eFPGA in a secure environment,“ said Geoff Tate, CEO and
Co-founder of Flex Logix. “We're honored to be working with Microsoft to bring Flex Logix's
eFPGA technology as part of their Advanced Commercial Capabilities project for the DoD RAMP
program.” 


The RAMP project intends to address and replace the obsolete practices utilized by the United
States Government in support of state-of-the-art custom IC and system-on-chip design especially
those associated with physical or “back-end” design.  Given the long system lifetime of DoD
systems, utilizing eFPGA provides the capability to make silicon changes to update algorithms or
modify functionality and saves money by avoiding costly tape-outs and installation of
replacement parts. 


"Our collaboration with Flex Logix will help to advance  flexibility to chip design," said Mujtaba
Hamid, General Manager, Silicon, Modeling and Simulation, Microsoft. "The company's eFPGA
technology has demonstrated success in supporting mission-critical applications and we look
forward to bringing this capability to support national security priorities." 


Using Flex Logix's EFLX®, chip developers can implement eFPGA from a few thousand LUTs to
hundreds of thousands of LUTs with performance and density per square millimeter similar to
leading FPGA companies in the same process generation. EFLX eFPGA is modular so arrays can be
spread throughout the chip, can have all-logic or be heavy-DSP, and can integrate RAM in an array
of many types. 


Leveraging Flex Logix's patented interconnect used in EFLX, Flex Logix has developed InferX®, an
AI inferencing tensor accelerator that delivers the highest throughput per dollar compared to other
edge inferencing solutions. The combination of EFLX, InferX and a host processor creates a cohesive
programmable and reconfigurable cognitive system. 


Product briefs for EFLX eFPGA are available now at https://www.flex-logix.com/resources/ 


About Flex Logix 

Flex Logix is a reconfigurable computing company providing AI inference and eFPGA solutions
based on software, systems and silicon. Its InferX X1 is the industry's most-efficient AI edge
inference accelerator that will bring AI to the masses in high-volume applications by providing much
higher inference throughput per dollar and per watt. Flex Logix's eFPGA platform enables chips to
flexibly handle changing protocols, standards, algorithms, and customer needs and to implement
reconfigurable accelerators that speed key workloads 30-100x compared to general purpose
processors. Flex Logix is headquartered in Mountain View, California and has offices in Austin, Texas.
For more information, visit https://flex-logix.com.   


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