About Us

Accent's Corporate Alliance Program develops and maintains trusted relationships with leading organizations and technology providers to deliver end-to-end solution capabilities to clients from concept to production. These relationships help clients realize benefits from both leading technologies, thereby providing access to highly differentiated IC products and silicon production capability.

Star IP

Accent works with a number of leading IP providers to complement its BASEip offerings and deliver customers state-of-the-art solutions.

	ARM is the industry's leading provider of 32-bit embedded RISC microprocessors, offering a wide range of processors based on a common architecture, delivering high performance while reducing power consumption and system cost.
	Cadence offers a broad and growing portfolio of world-class IP solutions paired with corresponding verification IP complements.
	The Infineon Technologies licensing program grants intellectual property use rights to IC manufacturers, design services companies, IP resellers/ distributors and fabless IC companies.
	MIPS Technologies delivers the widest range of low-power, high-performance processor cores with distinct cost advantages to semiconductor companies.
	Synopsys DesignWare Cores provides system designers with silicon-proven, digital and mixed-signal connectivity IP for some of the world's most recognized products including communications processors, routers, switches, game consoles, digital cameras, computers and computer peripherals.
	Virage Logic is the semiconductor industry's trusted IP partner, providing IP platforms comprising DDR memory controllers, embedded memories and non-volatile memory (NVM).
	Mentor Graphics provides software tools and consulting services for electronic design.
	Aragio Solutions is a semiconductor intellectual property (IP) and integrated design service provider focused on quality ESD design for IO pad sets.

EDA

Accent has made a significant investment in EDA technology and in procuring and maintaining its EDA infrastructure. This lets the company bring your next generation products to silicon and solve the challenges posed by leading-edge semiconductor technologies.

	Cadence Design Systems is the world's leading EDA company. Its customers use Accent software, hardware and services to overcome a range of technical and economic hurdles.
	Mentor Graphics provides software tools and consulting services for electronic design.
	Synopsys provides tools and services for digital system-on-chip design.
	CoWare is the leading global supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services.
	The MathWorks is the world‘s leading developer of technical computing software for engineers and scientists in industry, government and education

Silicon Foundries

Accent has partnered with leading pure play foundries to provide reliable, high-volume capabilities to customers that would have otherwise been impossible.

	TSMC is a dedicated independent semiconductor pure play foundry located in Hsin-Chu Science-Based Industrial Park, Taiwan.
	Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is one of the leading semiconductor foundries in the world and the largest and most advanced foundry in Mainland China.
	One of the world’s top dedicated semiconductor foundries, GLOBALFOUNDRIES offers leading-edge technologies down to 28 nanometer, enabling today’s system-on-chip.

IC Test

Accent works with a number of leading-edge test partners to deliver extremely cost-competitive IC test strategies that achieve uncompromising reliability and quality.

	Mentor Graphics provides software tools and consulting services for electronic design.
	Unisem specializes in wafer grinding, packaging and testing of ICs. The company provides investor relations, corporate governance, policies and information.
	Serma Technologies specializes in testing, analysis and control using expertise in board components and electronic systems.
	LTX-Credence is a manufacturer of automatic test equipment (ATE) for analog, digital, memory, mixed-signal and wireless semiconductor devices.

Design for Manufacturing

Accent recognizes the importance of addressing all components of yield, performance, and reliability. We complement our expertise with industry leaders to successfully enable high-volume IC production to our customers.

PDF Solutions works with IC manufacturers to increase yield, accelerate yield ramp and improve chip performance with the goal of reducing time-to-volume.

IC Assembly and Packaging

In developing a customer IC production strategy, Accent uses its experience from working with a number of leading manufacturing companies to determine the best packaging, test, assembly and distribution partner to meet each unique product’s requirements.

	UniSem specialises in wafer grinding, packaging and testing of ICs. The company provides investor relations, corporate governance, policies and information.
	U Tac is a leading independent provider of test and assembly services for a wide range of semiconductor devices including memory, mixed-signal/RF and logic integrated circuits.
	The ASE Group is the world's largest provider of independent semiconductor manufacturing services in assembly and test.