ASIC and SoC Engineering Services – First Silicon Designs

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Accelerate Your Project

First Silicon Designs is ready to help when you need it most. Below you’ll find a sample of the many services we can provide to help you accelerate the successful completion of your most critical product designs. Contact us today to discuss your project needs and get a jump start on that tapeout deadline!

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Design Services

We provide you with extra resources during any phase of your design project. From technology evaluations to final signoff steps, First Silicon Designs has the breadth and depth of experience that will accelerate the completion of your design. We offer help in all of the following areas of SoC design:

Logic Design, Synthesis, and Logical Equivalency Checking
Circuit Design
Physical Design and Implementation
IP Integration
BIST and DFT
Timing Analysis, Power Analysis, and Physical Verification
Timing and Functional ECO

Design Automation Services

The experts at First Silicon Designs have designed and implemented custom flows for both design and verification, at design centers of all sizes. We have worked with EDA vendor-supplied standard flows, integrating multi-vendor flows to seamlessly work together. At First Silicon Designs, we understand the complexities and subtleties of managing the volume of design data involved in large projects, and have tools to help. See our products page for more details. Contact us for:

EDA software evaluations, “shoot-outs”, and bring-up/integration
Basic or advanced EDA driver scripts
Script tuning and optimization
Revision control systems and design data management

We have years of experience with

Perl, TCL, C and C++
Linux, Make
SVN, Git, Perforce, ICManage
and others

Let us help you create or refine your automation flow. You won’t be disappointed!

Design Verification Services

First Silicon Designs is no stranger to solid design verification. We have experts in many application domains, including processors, memory systems, networking, DSP, SerDes, and lots more. We’ve worked with SystemVerilog, UVM, VHDL, and constraint management systems. We’ll help you develop your verification plan, work flow policies, verification project execution, and reporting and tracking systems.

Project Engineering Services

You can count on First Silicon Designs for your critical project outsourcing needs. We have several engagement models, from supplementing your resource pool to full project-based RTL-to-GDS. We have expertise in several application domains, including CPU, memory, telecom, networking, and more.

We’ll design custom IP or help you acquire and integrate 3rd party design IP.

ASIC and SoC product development is our specialty. We take an organized and disciplined approach to every project, insuring you get the best answers at the lowest cost.