FPGA to ASIC Services

    Accelerate Your Path to High-Volume, Cost-Efficient Silicon

    At Presto Engineering, we help companies successfully transition from FPGA prototypes to production-ready ASICs.

    Whether you are scaling a proven design or optimizing for performance, power, and cost, our FPGA-to-ASIC and eFPGA expertise ensures a smooth, low-risk journey to silicon.

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    Why move from FPGA to ASIC?

    FPGAs are ideal for prototyping and low-volume products, but as volumes grow, ASICs offer decisive advantages:

    • Supply Chain resilience

    • Security & IP Protection

    • Lower unit cost at medium to high volumes

    • Higher performance and deterministic timing

    • Reduced power consumption

    • Smaller form factor and better system integration

    • Radiation immunity

    Presto Engineering helps you determine when and how to make the transition, ensuring maximum return on investment.

    Embedded FPGA: Bringing Hardware Adaptability to ASICs

    Modern semiconductor designs face a fundamental trade-off:

    • FPGAs offer flexibility but come with higher cost, power, and security risks

    • ASICs deliver performance and efficiency, but limit the hardware reconfigurability

    Embedded FPGA (eFPGA) may offer a strong alternative for certain applications, combining the best of both worlds.

    By integrating eFPGA directly into an ASIC or SoC, a configurable hardware fabric remains available after tape-out, enabling systems to evolve over time without redesigning silicon.

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    Keep Hardware Flexibility Inside Your ASIC

    With eFPGA, a portion of your chip remains programmable and adaptable, allowing you to:

    • Update algorithms post-deployment
    • Adapt to new standards, protocols, or sensors
    • Fix hardware bugs without redesign
    • Extend product lifecycle significantly
    • Reduce obsolescence risks

    This approach transforms ASICs into evolving platforms, not fixed-function devices.

    A Hybrid Architecture for Complex Systems

    eFPGA enables a hybrid architecture:

    • Critical functions and advanced analog blocks → implemented as pure ASIC (performance, power efficiency)

    • Evolving or uncertain functions → implemented in eFPGA (flexibility, adaptability)

    • Both functions implemented on the same silicon, using standard EDA flow

    Benefits:

    • ASIC performance with FPGA flexibility

    • Low power, optimized silicon footprint

    • Post-silicon hardware reconfigurability

    • Reduced design risk and extended lifecycle

    • Faster time-to-market

    • Any foundry, any technology node

    This is particularly valuable for AI, signal processing, industrial control, and secure applications, where algorithms continuously evolve.

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    Business Impact

    • Reduce total cost of ownership across the product lifecycle

    • Eliminate costly silicon redesigns

    • Extend product lifecycle significantly

    • Accelerate time-to-market and deployment

    • Future-proof your architecture against evolving requirements

    Presto x Menta: Why does this partnership matter?

    Combining Menta’s embedded FPGA IP with Presto Engineering’s ASIC design and industrialization expertise enables a seamless path from flexible hardware architecture to production-ready silicon.

    This collaboration allows customers to design adaptable systems without compromising on performance, power efficiency, or scalability.

    The Power of the Presto x Menta Partnership

    The combination of Presto Engineering and Menta delivers a unique, end-to-end solution:

    Presto Engineering Expertise

    • 20+ years in ASIC design and integration

    • eFPGA-aware floorplanning and optimization

    • Secure supply chain and silicon validation

    • In-house test and qualification capabilities.

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    Menta eFPGA IP

    • 15+ years of expertise in embedded FPGA technology

    • 100% standard-cell architecture (any foundry, any node)

    • Optimized silicon footprint with high flexibility

    • Full IP ownership, EDA control, and fast delivery.

    Adaptability Starts in Silicon

    Embedded eFPGA is not just a feature — it is a strategic enabler for next-generation semiconductor designs. It allows companies to future-proof their products, reduce risk, and continuously adapt to evolving algorithms, standards, and security requirements — without redesigning silicon.

    Integrate Embedded eFPGA into Your Next ASIC

    Whether you are developing an industrial control SoC, a motor control ASIC, or a rad-hard aerospace device, our experts are ready to support you — from architecture definition to silicon qualification.

    Let’s discuss your project requirements and evaluate how embedded eFPGA can extend your product lifecycle, reduce risk, and accelerate time-to-market.

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    Our FPGA to ASIC Expertise

    We provide end-to-end support across the entire ASIC development flow:

    • Design assessment & feasibility analysis

    • FPGA code review and ASIC readiness evaluation

    • RTL adaptation and optimization

    • ASIC architecture definition

    • Low-power and performance optimization

    • DFT, verification, and sign-off support

    • Foundry, IP and technology node selection

    • Prototype, validation

    • Ramp-up and production

    Risk Reduction Through Experience

    Transitioning from FPGA to ASIC involves technical, financial, and schedule risks. Presto Engineering minimizes these risks by:

    • Identifying FPGA-specific constructs early

    • Avoiding costly redesign loops

    • Applying robust verification strategies

    • Ensuring compliance with ASIC manufacturing requirements.

    We work closely with your teams to maintain transparency, control costs, and meet time-to-market objectives.

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    Tailored Solutions for Your Industry

    Our FPGA-to-ASIC and eFPGA services support a wide range of markets and applications, including:

    • Aerospace

    • Industrial and embedded systems

    • Automotive and transportation

    • Secured communications and networking

    Each project is customized to your technical constraints, volume targets, and business goals.

    From Prototype to Production

    At Presto Engineering, we don’t just convert designs—we engineer production-ready solutions. From early feasibility to mass production, we act as a trusted partner to help you bring reliable, optimized silicon to market.

    Our Markets & Specialties

    At Presto Engineering, we enable next-generation semiconductor innovation through the integration of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) into advanced ASIC and SoC designs.

    Our expertise in eFPGA integration and ASIC development empowers adaptable, high-performance, and secure systems for aerospace applications, as well as emerging domains such as quantum-ready architectures, high-performance computing, and advanced cryptography.

    • Rad-hard portability across foundries

    • Radiation-tolerant secure architecture

    • Crypto agility and PQC readiness

    • Secure, obfuscated hardware logic

    • Instantaneous tamper detection and mitigation

    • Fault-tolerant design with redundance

    • Long lifecycle with hardware adaptability

    With embedded eFPGA integration, Presto Engineering enables adaptable, secure, and radiation-aware ASIC designs for next-generation aerospace systems.

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    Quantum-Ready eFPGA for ASIC & SoC

    • Post-quantum cryptography hardware acceleration

    • Adaptation to evolving quantum algorithms

    • Crypto agility for future standards

    • Hardware updates after deployment possible

    • Secure key management and processing

    • Protection against quantum-based attacks

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    High-Performance Computing eFPGA

    • Deterministic low-latency data processing

    • Hardware acceleration for complex algorithms

    • Custom ISA instruction offloading support

    • Parallel processing with optimized data paths

    • Tightly coupled memory for performance

    • Scalable compute within ASIC constraints

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    Secure Crypto eFPGA Integration

    • Hardware cryptographic acceleration engines

    • Crypto agility and PQC readiness

    • Side-channel attack mitigation techniques

    • Secure boot and Root of trust support

    • IP obfuscation, anti-reverse engineering

    • Rapid hardware patching and updates

    • Instant tamper detection and response

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    Customer Success

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    With Presto Engineering as Trusted Partner, Telsy is in a position to accelerate its innovation path and it makes us eager to collaborate with them again on our other future projects
    Roberto Piazza
    Engineering Manager
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    NORBIT has been working with Presto for nearly 15 years. It has been a great pleasure for us to work together on the design of custom ASICs and on laboratory testing for product certifications.
    Per Jørgen Weisethaunet
    Group CEO
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    Thanks to the DIMIT project and our collaboration with Presto, we can accelerate our roadmap and accompany the evolution of 5G networks towards 5G+ and 6G.
    Pierre-Gaël Chantereau
    Président

    Ready to move beyond FPGA limitations?

    Contact Us to discuss your FPGA-to-ASIC project and discover how we can turn your design into a competitive ASIC solution.

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