ASIC / Structured ASIC Design

Members of Octera's engineering team have been designing ASICs since before the term was first coined and represent one of the most experienced teams in North America.

In standard cell ASICs we are partnered closely with Open Silicon - a company emerging as the leading ASIC vendor of the newer generation. Open Silicon offers a cost effective way of sourcing product from foundry, taking care of the physical design, IP sourcing, packaging, test and product delivery. Octera acts as Open Silicon's front-end partner to ensure that customers needing additional design services prior to netlist handoff have a professional and integrated flow right through the design.

Octera's expertise includes also includes Gate Array, Standard Cell and Custom designs in CMOS, BiCMOS, ECL and GaAs from foundries such as AMI, IBM, LSI Logic, Motorola, Toshiba, TSMC and Vitesse.

Octera's ASIC Design services include the following

• Conceptual Definitions
• System Modeling
• Hardware Description Languages
• Verilog
• VHDL
• Proprietary HDLs
• RTL, Gate and Switch/Transistor Simulation
• Synthesis
• Floor Planning
• Static/Dynamic Timing Analysis
• Test Generation
• Test Insertion
• Verification

Octera will ensure that your ASIC or structured ASIC is completed quickly and cost-effectively to satisfy your time-to-market requirements.