SiliconApps’s roots in the supercomputer industry provide customers with the most experienced complex ASIC and SoC design experience. Through the years, the SiliconApps team has developed over 35 complex ASICs, right-first-time. SILICONAPPS offers all aspects of complex and custom ASIC design services and System-On-Chip design services from concept to silicon, including system design services and FPGA-to-ASIC conversion services.

Available individually or as full turnkey solutions, the ASIC design services include:

ASIC Product Definition

  • Architectural definitions and specifications
  • Design ground rules generation
  • Technology evaluation/Vendor selection
  • Logical Partitioning

ASIC Design

  • RTL code generation (Verilog, System Verilog, and VHDL)
  • High-speed interface design
  • Multiple clock domain design
  • Logic synthesis

ASIC Verification

  • Testbench generation
  • Functional simulation
  • Formal verification
  • Code coverage analysis
  • High-level modeling
  • Equivalency checking
  • Constrained random testing
  • Mentor Graphics VStation(TM) Emulation

ASIC Pre-Layout

  • Signal integrity analysis (ASIC and System)
  • High-speed clock design
  • Testability (DFT, scan, logic BIST and RAM BIST, JTAG)
  • HSPICE modeling
  • Timing constraint development
  • Static timing analysis

ASIC Layout

  • Floorplanning
  • Clock optimization
  • Physical synthesis
  • Placement and Routing
  • Design closure
  • LVS/DRC
  • GDSII generation

ASIC Foundry Interface

  • ASIC foundry release processing (based on extensive experience working with leading-edge foundries)