DIGITAL/MIXED SIGNAL

Synapse supports pure digital and mixed-signal ASIC designs from concept to tapeout. To help reduce risk and associated design costs, Synapse offers comprehensive design flows and state-of-the-art infrastructure to meet the increasing demands of your market. Our deep domain expertise and distributed tools and flows, guarantee we bring best-in-class methods, resources, and results to the project.

Design Services:

• Architectural tradeoff studies, system partitioning and implementation
• Micro-architecture and specification development
• Memory subsystem design
• Digital/Analog/Mixed-signal custom design
• RTL coding (Verilog, VHDL, Verilog -AMS), simulation and verification
• SOC Block level and top level integration
• Synthesis & Timing Analysis
• Power reduction methodology
• Package Design – electrical and thermal design
• Device bring up/ testing and validation

Areas of Expertise:

• Process technology nodes: 20nm, 28nm, 40nm, 65nm, 90nm, 130nm
• Low power – architecture and block level custom circuit design
• High-performance – pipeline design and I/Os > 2.5GHz+
• Multiple clock domains – > 70
• High-speed Interfaces: SERDES (10G serial, XAUI, PCIe), PCI-Express, USB 2.0 + 3.0, Thunderbolt
• SAS, ATA/SATA and Fiber Channel 
• Mixed-Signal IPs: PLL, ADC, DAC, Power Management Unit
• High-performance Memory Sub-Systems – DDR2/DDR3 Memory controllers, Flash controller
• Networking, Routing, Switching, Ethernet, 802.x, Cellular/Baseband, Tablets, Data Storage, Graphics, Video
• All major CPU, GPU, and DSP architectures including multi-core ARM/custom architectures
• Package performance and thermal analysis

Primary Tools:

• Magma
• Synopsys
• Cadence
• Mentor