Accent has an established track record having delivered tens of millions of parts manufactured for customers to date. With more than 300 IC designs completed, Accent established design flow and operation capabilities is equipped to meet the most challenging volume requirements.
Accent accounts for every step of silicon delivery and production, providing the necessary product engineering and program management resources to meet shipment requirements.
When coupled with the capabilities of its world-class manufacturing partners, customers are guaranteed successful products delivered right to the warehouse.
Multi-foundry/Multi-manufacturing Partners
A key component to providing our customers reliable, volume silicon capabilities is our partnership with leading, world-class manufacturing companies. For example, Accent has worked extensively with three of the top five foundries, as well as others, in the world.
According to IC Insights, the combined revenue of TSMC, SMIC, and Charter represented approximately $12,800 M in 2007, compared to TI’s IDM foundry revenue of $610 M, and over 50% of the $24,500 M foundry market in the same year.
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As with its foundry partners, Accent works with other world-class manufacturing companies in areas such as packaging and assembly/test. Click here to learn more.
Program Management
Accent is a project-based organization that applies rigorous project management and risk management methodologies.
Dedicated Project Managers supervise project plan execution, identifying risk and accommodating customer change requests. They’re also trained by professional consultants and coached by senior management.
Our project management methodologies include:
- Project Scope Definition
- Change Management
- Risks Assessment and Monitoring
- Estimation Techniques and Planning
The project life-cycle is divided into three stages: ramp-up, execution and ramp-down. During ramp-up, Accent defines the plan, staff the team and works with the customer to consolidate requirements.
Accent also performs a risk assessment analysis to identify all risks that may impact the project timeline and, in the end, its success. Accent works with its customers to define mitigation strategies and close this phase with a project kick-off meeting. This is to review and agree to the Statement of Work, the project plan and the risk conditions.
During the execution phase, all changes and adjustments to the project plan are carefully analyzed and controlled. Every attention is made to properly manage adjustments to the plan. Accent’s objective is to meet our customer's expectations while adhering to the project's financial targets.
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Regular and effective communication with all project stakeholders, based on periodic reports and design reviews, ensures the project stays on track and customer's expectations are met.
All aspects of supply are also handled by Accent covering all logistic services such as delivery of tested ICs to our client’s customer.
During ramp-down, at the close of the project, Accent collects and records all experiences to improve internal processes and knowledge. As a result, Accent is always able to provide the best practice in every specific design field where its engineers operate.
Product Engineering
In addition to program management resources, Accent also deploys its production engineering team.
These resources tackle a number of activities necessary to bring design and IC prototypes to a level of production quality so that the IC can be manufactured in high volumes.
Typical activities include: packaging, testing, and qualification.
