# ForwardEdge ASIC

> ForwardEdge ASIC is a Saint Paul, Minnesota-based integrated circuit design house and wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin. It designs 100% domestically traceable custom ASICs and FPGAs - plus silicon IP and turnkey products - for defense, aerospace, space, cybersecurity, and commercial customers. Built by a team of veteran engineers who have worked together for more than 30 years, the company pairs startup speed with Fortune 100 stability and holds DMEA Trusted IC vendor status, positioning it as a secure onshore alternative for mission-critical microelectronics.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
- **Founders:** Frank Ferrante (Chief Executive Officer), Paul Voit (Co-Founder, CTO / SVP (Memory Division))
- **Team size:** ~70 employees (scaling to 100+ in Saint Paul)
- **Products:** Custom ASIC & FPGA Design Services, SPD5 - DDR5 SPD EEPROM Hub, TS5 - DDR5 Temperature Sensor, Silicon IP Portfolio, Secure Architecture IP
- **Notable:** Earned DMEA Trusted IC vendor accreditation (approved February 25, 2026), enabling work on the most sensitive U.S. national-security systems., Core engineering team credited with 300+ patents and decades of commercial successes., 85% first-pass silicon success rate across design engagements.

## Products & services

- **Custom ASIC & FPGA Design Services** — Full-cycle analog and digital IC design from requirements through high-volume manufacturing, with an 85% first-pass silicon success rate and support for process nodes from 180nm down to 5nm.
- **SPD5 - DDR5 SPD EEPROM Hub** — Smart serial-presence-detect hub for DDR5 memory modules with integrated temperature sensing, secure authentication, and data protection.
- **TS5 - DDR5 Temperature Sensor** — Temperature monitoring device for DDR5 memory systems.
- **Silicon IP Portfolio** — High-speed SerDes (25G NRZ, 56/112G PAM4), memory controllers (DDRx/LPDDRx/GDDRx/ONFI), PCIe Gen3-6, NVMe, AHCI, UCIe 2.0 controller and PHY, and standard interconnect IP.
- **Secure Architecture IP** — AES-256 and SHA2/SHA3 cryptography, Physical Unclonable Function (PUF), RISC-V security processor with secure boot, and side-channel / tamper-attack countermeasures.
- **3UVPX Board** — Board-level design solution for embedded and defense computing.
- **Turnkey Products** — Concept-to-production turnkey microelectronics delivered with a fully automated RTL-to-GDSII flow and a domestic gov-cloud plus on-premise data center environment.

## Achievements

- Earned DMEA Trusted IC vendor accreditation (approved February 25, 2026), enabling work on the most sensitive U.S. national-security systems.
- Core engineering team credited with 300+ patents and decades of commercial successes.
- 85% first-pass silicon success rate across design engagements.
- Announced a $60M Saint Paul, Minnesota expansion projected to create 100+ high-wage engineering jobs.
- Signed a strategic space-microelectronics collaboration with Honeywell (2025).
- Delivers 100% domestically traceable, U.S.-based ASIC/FPGA design and supply chain.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Approved as a DMEA Trusted Integrated Circuit vendor, confirming secure, domestically traceable chip design and manufacture for national-security systems.
- **2025-02** — Launched a strategic collaboration with Honeywell to develop radiation-hardened microelectronics for space and satellite applications.
- **2025-04** — Released the SPD5 DDR5 SPD EEPROM hub with integrated secure authentication and temperature sensing.
- **2023-05** — Announced establishment of Saint Paul, Minnesota operations - a $60M project expected to create 100+ jobs.

## Links

- Website: https://forwardedgeasic.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/forwardedge-asic

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