overview EnSilica offers a flexible approach to commercial engagement based on customer preference. Competitively priced, we can provide a fixed cost quotation for your project or a development rate appropriate for the scope and scale of the work in question.  outsourcing Taking all or part of a design, EnSilica provides a cost effective solution to bring your product to market. Through prudent management of its business costs and extensive design experience, EnSilica is able to offer highly competitive rates to its customers. The benefits of strategic outsourcing include:- Focussing on Core Competencies Many product companies are paying more attention to high value added activities such as architecture and market development, preferring to outsource design implementation to specialists such as EnSilica. This allows companies to utilise resources efficiently and have greater control of costs in non-core competencies. Project Management EnSilica has proven project management experience necessary to deliver complex semiconductor development projects within time and cost boundaries. Regular communications and project status updates are crucial to maintain schedules and give customers visibility and control in meeting project deadlines. Accelerated Development Utilising design for re-use principles in conjunction with the outsourcing model enables aggressive design schedules and the acceleration of product time-to-volume. Outsourcing all or part of the development provides a parallel path to satisfy core design and verification stages of the overall project. Minimising fixed costs Finding the right balance of full time staff to resource projects is a perennial problem for design managers. Overstaffing is an inefficient use of resource whilst understaffing can put project schedules at significant risk. Outsourcing is a proven and well-understood solution to the ‘right-sizing’ dilemma.  insourcing As an alternative to outsourcing, scope-limited and smaller projects may be better addressed by EnSilica engineers operating under your management on-site full-time, or if practical, a mixture of on-site and off-site working. Augmenting your design team to meet time-to-market requirements can provide an attractive alternative to using unproven contract staff or larger, more expensive, consultancies. EnSilica’s engineers are selected based on expertise and industry experience - customers can leverage our knowledge and rely on our reputation.