Implementation Levels

Eventually, designing complex systems and chips had made by the extensive experience of our team. We are world-class experts on main technologies including digital design using FPGA, ASIC technologies, and SoC. We use modern techniques and technologies to achieve the highest performance and quality while completing very complex designs or very tight low power small-footprint designs. Logical Implementation covers the RTL-to-Netlist stages of an ASIC development flow. Our expertise in RTL design, FPGA devices and associated tool flow, SoC verification, High-level Hardware Verification Languages (HVL), ASIC prototyping, and post-silicon validation combined with our strong understanding of popular bus protocols, peripherals, system-level deployment, and industry-standard verification IPs help our customers drastically to improve confidence in the quality of functional verification prior to ASIC Tape-Out. Our experts stand first in ASIC SOC Implementation. FaststreamTech provides appropriate solutions for ASIC/SOC & silicon IP components.

Logical Implementation Services

Synthesis

Synthesis is the transformation from RTL to the netlist for a particular ASIC technology. It is an automated procedure, however, needs well-written RTL, revise timing limitations, and sometimes expert knowledge of the EDA tool behavior to yield optimum results. Whatever your specific design goals, we can work with your prerequisites and the most recent EDA tool streams to guarantee that the synthesis procedure delivers the possible results.

Power Optimisation

Some of the power-administration techniques that can be applied to a design are executed during RTL synthesis. These include Clock-gating addition, Supporting logic for power-management, e.g. level-shifters and isolator cells, Logic gating to diminish dynamic power. We have the skills needed to implement these techniques and can also develop UPF (or CPF) scripts to specify the power-management intent for all the EDA tools involved in the generation and verification of the netlist.

Static Timing Analysis (STA)

Developing a total and correct arrangement of timing imperatives is a basic prerequisite for robust ASIC implementation. Expanded levels of integration, complex interior clocking modes, and the expanding utilization of standards-based IO and interfaces mean that timing constraint generation is now a relatively specialized task and is often one that our customers are not fully confident in taking on by themselves. We have broad experience creating both interface and internal ASIC timing limitations for synthesis, place-and-route, and last timing sign-off. Our engineers also work intimately with the physical usage group to guarantee that timing margins and methodology are always appropriate for the target silicon process.

Design for Test (DFT)

DFT is currently turning into a specialized implementation area, but one that is often not considered early enough in architectural or RTL-level design. We have expertise in developing and integrating a total test methodology for your ASIC design to deliver high fault coverage. DFT techniques that can be applied to your design include:

•Output inclusion, including test compression synthesis
•Testing of embedded IP (e.g hard IP/Analog/PHY)
•SRAM BIST and repair
•JTAG TAP and boundary-scan insertion
•ATPG, including power-aware and advanced defect detection

Logical Equivalence

We attempt logical equivalence checking (LEC) overall phases in the implementation flow to confirm that all the processing steps that are applied to the design, such as synthesis, DFT-insertion, and place-and-route, have not affected the functionality specified by the RTL.

ASIC / SoC Implementation:

RTL-Design in VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog
Analog & AMS full custom IC design & layout
Digital ASIC & SOC physical implementation

We can ensure that your RTL is appropriate and enhanced for ASIC execution, and can take on all of the tasks needed to produce a netlist that is ready for physical implementation. This used to include mostly synthesis to meet timing and region targets, in addition to some scan inclusion for DFT, however now covers a more extensive scope of activities that can be critical to the optimization and performance of your ASIC, including:

RTL and DFT enhancement for execution, power, and area
Synthesis trials to help select the perfect silicon process and IP for your application
Addition of Test and BIST structures into the RTL
Synthesis of power management and power optimization logic, using UPF/CPF
Technology-specific IP integration, such as SRAM, e-Flash, and other 3rd-party IP
Timing constraint generation for STA

As a major aspect of a turn-key ASIC improvement, we can take on the selection and management of production test facilities and will oversee the development of all the hardware and software needed to bring up a production-ready test solution.

Our technology Services

SoC / ASIC Design Services

•Architecture Definition
•Micro-architecture design
•RTL Coding & Linting
•SoC Integration
•IP Development
•FPGA to ASIC Conversion

FPGA Design Services

•System testing and verification
•Post-synthesis simulation
•Signal integrity analysis
•Synthesis & Optimization
•Floorplanning & Timing Closure
•ASIC Prototyping