Hercules Micro Wins 'Technology Breakthrough IC Design Company' at China IC Design Achievement Awards

On March 29-30, 2023, in Shanghai, China, Hercules Micro was invited to participate in the 2023 International IC Exhibition and Seminar, where it showcased multiple self-developed FPGA chips including 40nm and 22nm products: the HME-H1, HME-H3, HME-H7, HME-P1 and HME-P2 series. Meanwhile, on March 30, the 2023 China IC Leadership Summit and China IC Design Achievement Awards Ceremony was successfully held, where Hercules Micro was honored with the "2023 China IC Design Achievement Award - Technology Breakthrough IC Design Company of the Year" for its technological innovation and market achievements.

As one of the most important technology awards in China's electronics industry, the annual "China IC Design Achievement Awards" ceremony has become one of the most anticipated benchmark events in the industry, and the award is one of the important technology awards in China's electronics industry. It aims to recognize the best companies that hold a leading position in China's IC design field, or demonstrate outstanding design capabilities and technical service levels, or possess great development potential. As a leading domestic FPGA design and R&D company, Hercules Micro has an excellent design and R&D team, committed to continuous innovation and creating more outstanding products to provide users with cost-effective solutions.

As the earliest enterprise to enter the FPGA industry in China, Hercules Micro was invited to participate in this conference and brought multiple high-performance, low-power 22nm products and rich solutions covering industrial control, video, consumer electronics and other application fields, demonstrating the company's sustained investment in technical capabilities and R&D achievements under ever-changing market demand conditions.

The company's core R&D team consists of the earliest members in China engaged in independent and controllable FPGA design, including multiple high-end talents in the integrated circuit field, FPGA industry technical experts, and professionals with doctoral and master's degrees from first-class universities at home and abroad.

The company's products are the first to integrate FPGA with CPU, MCU, DSP, Memory, ASIC, AI and other heterogeneous units on a single chip, achieving features such as programmability, self-reconfiguration, easy scalability, broad applicability, multi-integration, high reliability, strong computing power and long lifecycle. The competitive advantage of its products is that when terminal products use such novel heterogeneous products as core chips, they can adaptively and securely adjust top-level and middle-layer software code and reconfigure underlying hardware circuits through the approach of "applications drive software, software programs hardware, hardware reconfigures platforms, and platforms implement systems," rapidly adapting to differentiated requirements across market application domains.

The company's R&D team has collaboratively mass-produced multiple series of FPGA and programmable SoC FPGA chips, with process nodes advancing from 65nm to 55nm and 40nm, and now to 22nm, deriving nearly a hundred products after chip packaging. These include the P series with large-capacity FPGA+DDR+SERDES, the M series with cost-effective FPGA+8051/ARM cores, the H series with high interface speed and large on-chip memory featuring FPGA+MIPI+SRAM, the R series of low-power pure FPGA, and the E series of configurable embedded FPGA products. The company's FPGA chip products are advancing from low-to-medium specifications toward medium-to-high specifications, seeking innovation in design, achieving differentiation by combining application requirements, and forming distinctive domestic FPGA chips. Meanwhile, the company's self-developed EDA software has been capable of supporting the complete design flow for FPGAs with ultra-large-capacity logic resources. The quality results generated by the EDA tools are already comparable to those of similar foreign products.

Hercules Micro always takes technology as its foundation, R&D as its mission, and innovation as its development strategy, working together with upstream and downstream partners in the industry chain to build a benchmark for domestic FPGAs and support the steady, rapid and high-quality development of the chip industry.