ASIC Design Services

SDS offers expert services in all areas of microelectronics design, including:

  • Front-end digital design
  • Analog and RF design
  • Prototyping
  • Simulation and verification
  • Back-end layout
  • ATE development

Experience

We have experience with a wide variety of fabs including TSMC, AMI, Polarfab, Jazz Semiconductor, XFAB, as well as a number of proprietary fabrication facilities. We also have experience with a wide variety of technologies including CMOS, SiGe and III/V semiconductors, and have designed circuits with geometries down to 90nm.

Many of our senior engineers have over 20 years of experience in IC circuit design and have developed products for large companies such as LSI Logic, SGI, and Medtronic down to small start-ups. Our team has experience taking concepts directly to production and we maintain close partnerships to ensure this is executed seamlessly. In addition to our extensive experience, we have the full tool suite from Magma Design Automation as well as verification tools from Synopsys. If you have a chip concept you would like us to quote, please contact us for a free conference call.

Internally Developed IP
  • Wireless 802.11b/g MAC compatible with several standard Wi-Fi transceivers
  • AHB Bus Arbiter with programmable bandwidth allocation (patented)
  • AHB Bus DMA Controller
  • Vectored Interrupt Controller
  • 32-bit Timer/Counters with capture and compare features
  • Power Management with dynamic clock scaling and programmable software or hardware triggered wake up (patented)
  • SPI port
  • UART port
  • HDLC port
  • PWM Quadrature Decoder
  • H-Bridge Controller
  • Parametric Equalization Controller
Integrated IP

The following is a list of IP that has been purchased and successfully integrated by our ASIC team:

  • ARM 926EJ-S Core
  • SDRAM/SRAM Controller
  • PCI/CardBus
  • USB 2.0 Full Speed Host
  • USB 2.0 Full Speed Device
  • 10/100 Base-T Ethernet MAC
  • TI TL16C750 Compatible UART
  • I2C Master/Slave
  • 8-bit PIC Microcontroller
  • JBIG Decoder
  • Programmable Print Engine Interface Controller
  • AES core with ECB, CBC, OFB and CCM cipher modes and 128, 192 or 256 bit keys
  • Real Time Clock with calendar and programmable alarms
  • PLLs
  • Oscillators
  • General purpose ADC
  • Wi-Fi Analog Front End
  • PORs
Verification IP

Below is a list of Verification IP that has been internally developed. Utilizing these building blocks makes it possible to put together a constrained random testbench very quickly for certain applications. This allows our verification team to find more corner case bugs in simulation and reduce prototype debug time.

  • Ethernet (10/100)
  • USB
  • UART
  • CAN
  • I2C
  • SPI
  • AES
  • HDLC
  • SDIO
  • AHB
  • DMA
  • ARM7 BFM
  • PIC Debugger
  • Memory Models