Reducing time to market: Deep Life’s ASIC Design Services

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Reducing time to market: Deep Life’s ASIC Design Services

From Initial Thoughts to Volume Production


Overview •  High-speed IC design services

–  Highly experienced design teams in St Petersburg, Russia and Scotland

•  Full Design Capabilities –  From Initial Thoughts to Volume Production –  Analogue, Digital, Software, Firmware, Package, Test

Fixtures & Prototype testing •  Innovative design team

–  Wide experience in high-speed ASIC design and production support

–  Assistance with intellectual property protection: •  Over 150 patents and patent applications to date •  A leading patent house: www.patentica.com


Our ASIC Experience •  Safety Critical

–  Nuclear reactor radiation monitors –  Alpha and Beta Radiation Monitor –  Personal radiation monitor –  Safety critical UART –  Spectrometer controller –  Life support systems

•  Memory –  Memory redundancy controller

•  Signal Processing –  Parallel FFT Processor –  Fully integrated modem – ADC/Digital filters/DAC –  25MHz Gm-C filters for GPS/Glonass L1/L2 receiver –  Speech noise reduction processor

•  ATE –  1.6Gbps pin electronics driver receiver –  1ps resolution timing verniers

•  RF ASIC –  RF Channel Controller –  CDMA Spread Spectrum Link Chip –  Bluetooth –  HiperLAN II –  GSM –  Wimedia Ultra-Wideband LNA/ PLL design and architecture

•  Others –  20Gbps simultaneous bidirectional signalling chip –  15Gbps serial communications PHY –  Low noise Read/Write preamplifiers for disk drives –  Servo control ASIC’s for disk drives –  Low power, low emissions and automotive communications

PHY

•  Technologies –  Bipolar

•  Low cost, low frequency •  High frequency complementary bipolar

–  CMOS •  Low cost down to 180nm logic •  Advanced mixed signal and RF down to 90nm

–  BiCMOS •  High frequency complementary bipolar & CMOS

–  SiGE BiCMOS •  RF applications

•  Deep Life has expertise in high speed product design has been proven with some of the most complex electronic products in existence: complete advanced high-speed ATE, crypto-analysis and ultra high-speed communications systems comprising:

–  ASIC design –  Logic design –  Software design –  Test fixture design –  Firmware design –  Prototype testing –  Production support


Deep Life’s ASIC Design Team ASIC CAD Tools Experience

Experience in industry standard ASIC tools including: •  Cadence custom ASIC design flow

•  Artist schematic capture •  Virtuoso layout •  SpectreRF simulation •  VerilogA simulation and modelling •  Diva & Assura verification •  Writing and updating verification run-decks

•  Also Mentor Graphics and Synopsis design flows •  Hspice, with processor farms in house •  HFSS and other EM packages •  Matlab, Simulink & Mathcad •  Verilog •  Advanced software engineering


Deep Life’s ASIC Design Team: System CAD Tools Experience

  Professional tools, in a modern environment.   Industry wide electronic design tools, for circuits and schematics   Experienced in design and modeling of packages, PCBs and the thermal aspects of

complete products.   For finite element simulation COSMOS FEM-based analysis software which runs in a

SolidWorks environment, and Ansoft FEM   We interface smoothly with your teams:

  We have rigorous documentation processes   For ASIC Design, we almost always use the same toolsets   Electronic design, Synopsis tools   For mechanical design: Autocad and Solidworks, with conversions to and from IGES,

ProEngineer etc   For reviews, we can generate 3D Acrobat PDF, eDrawings or Solidworks files


ASIC Design Example #1: 1.6Gbps Pin Electronics ASIC

•  A 1.6Gbps pin driver and timing vernier •  Used in a modern high-speed ATE system and for cryptography

analysis •  Mixed signal design

–  Large digital content: over 100 million gate equivalents –  Analogue component count 1.2 million transistors, resistors and capacitors

•  48 TX and RX channels –  Single ended or differential drive to DUT –  Single ended or differential comparison of received DUT data –  Timing resolution down to 1ps –  Cycle-by-cycle delay control –  3.3Volt output swing with 50 Ohm internal load –  1.8Volt output swing terminated 50 Ohm load –  Multiple timesets allowing cycle-by-cycle delays to any output pin –  Duty-cycle correction and skew control on each pin independently –  Integral calibration and extensive support for built in test

•  20mm x 17mm in a 180nm low-cost CMOS process


Example in ASIC Design – 1.6Gbps Pin Electronics ASIC

Schematic Entry

Layout

Simulation

Automated simulation scripts & VerilogA modelling


ASIC Design Example 1: ASIC package design

15Gbps CMOS package

PCB E-Field

Silicon E-Field

Traces modelled


ASIC Design Example 1: Board level ASIC Liquid Cooling

3D Model of device and heat sink

3D Model of assembly and flow

Predicted temperatures

Predicted flow (velocity)

This was followed by empirical tests of this design, which matched very closely with the simulated results. We have worked with many different cooling systems: air and liquid.


ASIC Design Example 1: Board level integration with Air Cooling

Chip Junction Temperature

Temperature 4mm above pcb Air Pressure across pcb


ASIC Design Example #2 •  20Gbps bidirectional signalling ASIC

–  10Gbps data transfer across a differential pair in each direction simultaneously

•  Designed to explore the limits of high-speed ASIC’s in low-cost 180nm logic CMOS process

•  The DL team took the chip from a marketing concept right through to fully working silicon, including: –  Concept development –  ASIC design, verification and layout –  PCB design including EM simulation, software and firmware –  ASIC package design –  ASIC prototype test –  Multiple patents filed on behalf of client


ASIC Design Example #2: 20Gbps bidir comms

Schematic

verilogA Code

10Gbps input port 10Gbps output port

20Gbps input/output port

5mm x 5mm 180nm CMOS


From Initial Thoughts to Production •  Deep Life is experienced in all aspects of an ASIC

evolution –  Technical Feasibility Analysis –  System-level trade-off analysis –  Specification development –  Circuit design and layout –  Prototype testing and characterisation –  System on a chip integration –  Production design and yield management –  Process migration

•  Quality procedures control all aspects and stages of design –  We understand QUALITY, and the gulf between the words

“demonstrable” and “really working, project finished” –  We are ISO 9001 and IOS 14001 registered


Collaborative Business Model •  Preserves benefits of internal development

–  Close collaboration. Independent or joint team –  Rapid access to truly world class design professionals, without needing to

invest in infrastructure needed to support them –  Easy to re-scope project without lengthy contract negotiations

•  Time based fees (hourly rates with weekly maximum) –  Detailed project budgets –  Detailed project schedules with weekly updates

•  Ensures rights and information for design re-use –  Narrow or Broad licensing terms, as required –  In depth and full design documentation throughout the process –  Documentation can include schematics, databases, libraries etc

•  Advantages over internal design –  Staffing levels can be adjusted easily –  Access to a larger pool of IP and design experience, reduces internal

reuse needs •  Dedicated staff arrangement provides additional benefits

–  Guarantees staff continuity –  Facilitates project planning and engineering team building


Summary

1.  Deep Life have a team of talented and experienced engineers, to help you with your application

2.  Brings truly world class engineering expertise to your project We can help you with just one aspect, or provide a full range of design services

3.  Our cost base is low, split between Scotland and Russia 4.  Our productivity is high 5.  The quality of our work is guaranteed.

Email us today: [email protected] Or phone: See www.deeplife.co.uk/contact.php for an office near you

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Reducing time to market: Deep Life’s ASIC Design Services