FPGA Design and Development

Sasken offers services in traditional FPGA flows as well as using its ASIC methodologies to enhance the overall quality of the FPGA based design.

FPGA design services includes RTL development, functional verification using native & 3 rd party simulators, Synthesis of the design to target FPGA using native & 3 rd party synthesizers, Place and route of design to target FPGA using native Place and route tool (Xilinx ISE or Altera Quartus). Real time testing of the design on the board using test and measurement equipments likes logic analyzer & oscilloscope.

Sasken offers the following FPGA design services

• ASIC Prototyping on FPGA platform (Altera or Xilinx)
• FPGA technology selection
• Define design partition strategy across multiple FPGAs
• Define Reset handling
• Multiple clock domains handling
• Wrapper development
• FPGA end to end product development
• Feasibility Analysis of Product Feature list
• Architecture definition of FPGA based system
• Design, development & debug on FPGA platform
• System firmware development
• Board design and development
• Board bring up

Case Studies

• Virtex 2 FPGA prototype development of a 32 bit RISC processor along with the system hardware
• ASIC prototype on a Single FPGA Platform having 18 Xilinx Virtex4 (System design fit into 15 FPGA’s with average of 50% utilization)
• FPGA prototype of a complex ASIC for proving modified blocks/functional paths migration to a higher architecture
• ASIC prototype on a Single FPGA Platform having 55 Xilinx Virtex5 (D&D in progress)
• Extensive Design & Development on FPGA based platforms in the Network domain

Areas of Expertise

• Signal processing algorithms, Encryption algorithms
• ARM11, Cortex-A8 based ASIC design on FPGA
• Industry Std Protocol Interfaces (Serial Rapid IO, Rocket IO, PCI, PCIe UTOPIA-2, HDLC, I2C, UART, SPI, MII, SMII )
• High speed interfaces with the Processor, DSPs
• GSM basestations (extensive experience)