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Tabula, Inc.

January 01, 1970

For the advertising company, see Taboola.

Tabula, Inc., was an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California.[1] Founded in 2003 by Steve Teig (ex-CTO of Cadence), it raised $215 million in venture funding. The company designed and built three dimensional field programmable gate arrays (3-D FPGAs) and ranked third on the Wall Street Journal's annual "Next Big Thing" list in 2012.[2]

Tabula, Inc.
Company typePrivate
IndustrySemiconductors
Founded2003
FounderSteve Teig
Defunct2015
Headquarters
Santa Clara, California
,
USA
Key people
Dennis Segers (CEO), Steve Teig (CTO)
ProductsThree-dimensional integrated circuit (3-D FPGA)
Number of employees
>100
Websitewww.tabula.com

Products edit

Tabula developed ABAX, a family of three-dimensional integrated circuits. The company's field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chips were marketed as 3-D programmable logic devices or 3PLDs. The chips have 220-630 thousand 4-input lookup table (LUT) from the user point of view and are capable of working at 1.6 GHz physical clock speed. They also contain up to 1280 digital signal processing (DSP) blocks with 18x18 multipliers with pre-adder; up to 920 GPIO pins and 48 SerDes channels (up to 6.5 Gbit/s). ABAX are produced using 40 nm TSMC process and packaged in flip-chip packages with 1936 or 1156 pins.[citation needed]

Internally, ABAX chips use high-frequency (1.6 GHz) reconfiguration between up to 8 config states, named folds, to emulate a high number of FPGA-resources. If all 8 folds are used to get maximum LUT capacity, user visible clock speed will be 200 MHz; for 4 folds capacity is halved but frequency is doubled and so on.[3]

Volume price of ABAX chips was planned in 2012 to be in the range of 100-200 USD.[3]

Tabula also offered some network solutions, such as: 100 or 40 Gb Ethernet to Interlaken bridges; high-speed packet search engines; and multiport 10 gigabit Ethernet processors (which could be used as switch, router, or programmable NIC).[citation needed]

In February 2012, Tabula confirmed it would use 22-nm manufacturing process on Intel's Factories.[4][5] As of July 2013, only 5 companies were allowed to use Intel's manufacturing process: Achronix; Tabula; Netronome; Microsemi; and Altera.[6]

Spacetime was a product of Tabula that possibly went beyond the abilities of FPGAs. The company said that Spacetime represented two spatial dimensions and one time dimension as a unified 3D framework. According to Tabula, this appeared to be a simplification that might deliver in production a new category of programmable devices (“3PLDs”) that are denser, faster, and more capable than FPGAs, yet still accompanied by software that automatically maps traditional RTL onto these novel fabrics.[citation needed]

On 24 March 2015, Tabula officially shut down.[7]

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References edit

  1. ^ "Business is King Among 'Next Big Thing' Start-Ups". Venture Capital Dispatch. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  2. ^ Cromwell Schubarth (26 September 2012). "Here's 30 Bay Area startups pegged as 'Next Big Thing'". Business Journal. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  3. ^ a b Tom R. Halfhill (2010-03-29). (PDF). Microprocessor Report #3 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-04-10.
  4. ^ Don Clark (2012-02-20). "Startup Tabula Turns to Intel As Manufacturing Partner". WSJ Blogs.
  5. ^ Clive Maxfield (2012-02-21). . EETimes. Archived from the original on 2012-02-24.
  6. ^ Rogoway, Mike (2013-07-27). Intel dabbles in contract manufacturing, weighing tradeoffs. The Oregonian, July 27, 2013. Retrieved from http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2013/07/intel_dabbles_in_contract_manu.html.
  7. ^ Donato-Weinstein, Nathan (2015-02-11). Tabula to shut down; 120 jobs lost at fabless chip company. Silicon Valley Business Journal, 11 February 2015. Retrieved from https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/02/11/tabula-to-shut-down-120-jobs-lost-at-fabless-chip.html.

External links edit

  • at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 March 2015)
  • Steve Teig Lecture on Tabula and Entrepreneurship to Stanford University Students, 2013.10.23
  • Steve Teig Lecture on Spacetime 3D Programmable Integrated Circuits (11 min), 2012.06.18
  • Steve Teig Lecture on Spacetime 3D Programmable Integrated Circuits (61 min), 2012.10.07

January 01, 1970
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For the advertising company see Taboola Tabula Inc was an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara California 1 Founded in 2003 by Steve Teig ex CTO of Cadence it raised 215 million in venture funding The company designed and built three dimensional field programmable gate arrays 3 D FPGAs and ranked third on the Wall Street Journal s annual Next Big Thing list in 2012 2 Tabula Inc Company typePrivateIndustrySemiconductorsFounded2003FounderSteve TeigDefunct2015HeadquartersSanta Clara California USAKey peopleDennis Segers CEO Steve Teig CTO ProductsThree dimensional integrated circuit 3 D FPGA Number of employees gt 100Websitewww wbr tabula wbr comThis article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Tabula Inc news newspapers books scholar JSTOR July 2018 Learn how and when to remove this message Contents 1 Products 2 See also 3 References 4 External linksProducts editTabula developed ABAX a family of three dimensional integrated circuits The company s field programmable gate array FPGA chips were marketed as 3 D programmable logic devices or 3PLDs The chips have 220 630 thousand 4 input lookup table LUT from the user point of view and are capable of working at 1 6 GHz physical clock speed They also contain up to 1280 digital signal processing DSP blocks with 18x18 multipliers with pre adder up to 920 GPIO pins and 48 SerDes channels up to 6 5 Gbit s ABAX are produced using 40 nm TSMC process and packaged in flip chip packages with 1936 or 1156 pins citation needed Internally ABAX chips use high frequency 1 6 GHz reconfiguration between up to 8 config states named folds to emulate a high number of FPGA resources If all 8 folds are used to get maximum LUT capacity user visible clock speed will be 200 MHz for 4 folds capacity is halved but frequency is doubled and so on 3 Volume price of ABAX chips was planned in 2012 to be in the range of 100 200 USD 3 Tabula also offered some network solutions such as 100 or 40 Gb Ethernet to Interlaken bridges high speed packet search engines and multiport 10 gigabit Ethernet processors which could be used as switch router or programmable NIC citation needed In February 2012 Tabula confirmed it would use 22 nm manufacturing process on Intel s Factories 4 5 As of July 2013 only 5 companies were allowed to use Intel s manufacturing process Achronix Tabula Netronome Microsemi and Altera 6 Spacetime was a product of Tabula that possibly went beyond the abilities of FPGAs The company said that Spacetime represented two spatial dimensions and one time dimension as a unified 3D framework According to Tabula this appeared to be a simplification that might deliver in production a new category of programmable devices 3PLDs that are denser faster and more capable than FPGAs yet still accompanied by software that automatically maps traditional RTL onto these novel fabrics citation needed On 24 March 2015 Tabula officially shut down 7 See also editAltera Xilinx AchronixReferences edit Business is King Among Next Big Thing Start Ups Venture Capital Dispatch 27 September 2012 Retrieved 1 October 2012 Cromwell Schubarth 26 September 2012 Here s 30 Bay Area startups pegged as Next Big Thing Business Journal Retrieved 1 October 2012 a b Tom R Halfhill 2010 03 29 Tabula s Time Machine Rapidly reconfigurable chips will challenge conventional FPGAs PDF Microprocessor Report 3 2010 Archived from the original PDF on 2011 04 10 Don Clark 2012 02 20 Startup Tabula Turns to Intel As Manufacturing Partner WSJ Blogs Clive Maxfield 2012 02 21 Tabula s next gen FPGAs to use Intel s 22nm process featuring 3 D tri gate transistors EETimes Archived from the original on 2012 02 24 Rogoway Mike 2013 07 27 Intel dabbles in contract manufacturing weighing tradeoffs The Oregonian July 27 2013 Retrieved from http www oregonlive com silicon forest index ssf 2013 07 intel dabbles in contract manu html Donato Weinstein Nathan 2015 02 11 Tabula to shut down 120 jobs lost at fabless chip company Silicon Valley Business Journal 11 February 2015 Retrieved from https www bizjournals com sanjose news 2015 02 11 tabula to shut down 120 jobs lost at fabless chip html External links editOfficial website at the Wayback Machine archived 24 March 2015 Steve Teig Lecture on Tabula and Entrepreneurship to Stanford University Students 2013 10 23 Steve Teig Lecture on Spacetime 3D Programmable Integrated Circuits 11 min 2012 06 18 Steve Teig Lecture on Spacetime 3D Programmable Integrated Circuits 61 min 2012 10 07 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tabula Inc amp oldid 1220797422, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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