Our Mission
Designing the world’s best embedded physical IP
At a time when physical design is primarily based on standard foundry IPs, we design deep submicron integrated circuits and full custom VLSI analog and digital circuits at the extreme edge of performance, density, and power efficiency for leaders in every industry — including foundational IPs and standard cells the majority of physical design firms use.
The state of semiconductor design
In the past, semiconductor design was a specialized field for creatives and innovators, where chips were designed from the ground up and each chip pushed the bounds of what was possible in the industry.
With the advent of foundry-provided standard IPs, full-custom physical design gave way to putting together standard blocks provided by foundries (think LEGOs). This enabled firms to make chips for any customer, quickly, cheaply, and functionally.
Today, chips are LEGO creations, instead of the feats of innovation they once were. And when IPs are designed to work for any chip, they’re not optimized for the exact requirements of your specific chip.
The craft of DXCorr
We believe physical design is a craft, not a commodity — and for a craft, experience matters. From TCAMs, RFs, and SRAMs, to 112G SerDes, to high-performance instruction set processors, DXCorr has built components for every part of your datapath. There is no part of any modern chip that we haven’t already designed and shipped for a major, billion-dollar customer.
To further push the edge of performance, we’ve developed a spectacular suite of in-house software that automates even the most unconventional logic verification — without having to spending millions on testing it on actual silicon. As a result, we are the only firm in the world capable of implementing certain highly experimental techniques that will truly make the difference between a standard chip to one that defines the best-in-class for a given industry.
Custom physical design
DXCorr is the last independent stronghold for the art and craft of full-custom physical design or, as it was once known, semiconductor design. We know that the PPA of physical IP will determine the overall performance of a chip. The final frontier for performance comes from the countless degrees of freedom afforded by physical design — where everything can be optimized down to the shape of a transistor and placement of a wire.
What DXCorr offers
In-House Physical IP Blocks
After over a decade of work on some of the most complex and demanding circuits in the world, we have an armory of best-in-class in-house physical IP, as well as the capability to design new full-custom IP to exact specifications, all to be deployed and integrated into the most powerful chip design available.
Full-Custom Design Services
If the IP required is not available in our extensive library of off-the-shelf IP, we provide concept-to-GDS full-custom design services, creating a highly-optimized, fine-tuned circuit, laid out transistor by transistor for maximum performance.
Over a decade of leading-edge design & results
60+
Full chip tape-outs
100s
Full-custom physical IPs designed
1,000,000,000s
Best-in-class chips with our IP sold
