Accent has an established track record for delivering tens of millions of parts manufactured for customers to date. With more than 300 IC designs completed, we’ve assembled both a design flow and operation capability to meet the most challenging volume requirements.
We account 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 our 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 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 our 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.Our 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 methodology includes:
- 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, we define the plan, staff the team and work with our 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. We work with our 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, baseline plan and risk conditions.
During the execution phase, all changes and adjustments to the baseline plan is carefully analyzed and controlled. Every attention is made to managing both technical and commercial project adjustments. Our objective is to meet our customer's expectations while adhering to the project's financial targets. 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 management are also handled by Accent covering logistic services such as delivery of tested ICs to our client’s customer.
During ramp-down, at the close of the project, we collect and record 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 our engineers operate.
Product Engineering
In addition to program management resources, Accent also supplements our customer’s and partner’s technical teams with our own production engineering team. These resources tackle a number of activities necessary bring a design and IC prototypes to a level of production quality so that the IC can be manufactured in volume. Typical activities include: packaging, testing, and qualification.
