Design Centres
FME’s customers and partners in Europe are supported by a comprehensive array of design, development, manufacturing and integrated IT services. Drawing upon the expertise and resources of the Fujitsu group to provide world-class technology and platform products, we use our multinational presence to deliver locally optimised solutions for customers in all corners of the world.
Design Services/IP/SoC
Engineering strength is employed in FME’s European Design Centres located in Frankfurt & Munich, Germany, and Maidenhead in the UK. Focused on microcontrollers, ASICs, Multimedia and Telecom development, RF and mixed signal design, they deliver localised design service for European customers, ensuring optimum use of resources and minimum time to market.
Throughout worldwide Fujitsu operations, use of third-party vendor tools and Fujitsu’s own CAD tools ensure an innovative and mature design flow, providing customers with a global network for system development and support.
For custom and semi-custom designs, FME provides the latest in SoC cores designed for the wireless and network access ASIC markets. The company’s extensive line of re-usable building blocks ranges from complex microprocessors to mixed-signal functionality cores.
With IPWare™ and other Fujitsu tools, customers can integrate cores optimised for performance, routability, and flexible integration into the chip environment, which helps get them to market ahead of the competition.
Integrated IT
Throughout the design-to-delivery process, customers benefit from Fujitsu’s global IT systems and infrastructures. Standards-based systems like electronic data interchange, enterprise resource planning and Internet/Extranet solutions provide up-to-the-minute information on demand. This ensures increased data accuracy and reliability enabling lower costs, reduced cycle times and smaller inventories.
FME also offers local programming and taping services, mainly for Flash MCU, and can support VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory), which entails delivering parts to a consignment warehouse at customers’ premises under specified conditions. We can also arrange special transport or logistics according to specific needs of customers.
Application software and system packages for sales, purchasing, development, warehousing’ and customs & excise processes are fully integrated and linked to an EDI system to forge an application-to-application EDI with our partners.
Furthermore, to facilitate automation of business documents exchange, FME offers customers EDI services to include support of classical order cycle and VMI scenarios – both EDIFACT standard – and the implementation of RosettaNet PIPs based on mutual agreement.
Manufacturing
Fujitsu’s many sites in Japan and overseas ensure it remains an ideal partner for customers. The Group’s global business activities provide a steady supply of products and services in response to customer needs. Four world-class Japan-based production facilities cater for global semiconductor production, while wholly or partly Fujitsu owned subsidiaries supply FME with plasma displays. FME also works actively to help forge links between customers and cost-effective end-product manufacturing units.
