Our Partners

Alphacore

The Alphacore design team has extensive experience in delivering complete solutions for a diverse customer base, offering custom products and services that exceed performance requirements to fulfill applications needs.We can provide RF or mixed signal intellectual property (IP), specialized imaging systems, hardware-based cybersecurity solutions as well as custom design services.
Our engineers develop innovative analog and mixed-signal components that fit niche applications and their demanding needs perfectly.

Our focus areas are:

• Analog, Mixed Signal and RF Solutions
• Imaging Solutions
• Radiation Hardened Electronics
• Emerging Technologies

• Delta-Sigma
  • Consumer, IOT, Wearables
  • High Resolution, ultra low power
  • Lowest power up to a few MS/s

• Pipelined
  • Consumer, WiFi, Lidar
  • High Resolution, High Dynamic Range, Moderate power

• Hybrid SAR
  • Sat Comms, 5G, Automotive, Lidar, Exotic Compute
  • Highest Sample Rate, lowest power

• Parallel Flash
  • Sat Comms, 5G, Automotive
  • Low Resolution, Ultra-High Speed
  • Lowest power in the industry

Flex Logix

Flex Logix™ leader of embedded FPGA and AI Inferencing IP.

Flex Logix provides eFPGA cores which have density and performance similar to leading FPGAs in the same process node but only use standard cells. Our EFLX eFPGA is silicon proven in 180nm, 40nm, 28/22nm, 16nm and 12nm with 6/7nm EFLX eFPGA is in design and 5nm next.

Our eFPGA is based on a “tile” called EFLX 4K, which comes in two versions: all logic or mostly logic with some MACs (multiply-accumulators). The programmable logic is called LUTs (lookup tables) that can implement any Boolean function. EFLX 4K Logix has 4000 LUT4 equivalents, EFLX 4K DSP has 3000 LUT4s and 40 Multiplier-Accumulators (MACs): the MAC has a 22-bit pre-adder, a 22×22 multiple and a 48-bit post adder/accumulator. MACs can be combined or cascaded to form fast DSP functions. We can build an eFPGA array of tiles of any combination to match the requirement of the SoC (for 40nm-180nm we offer an EFLX 1K tile for smaller arrays).

• Scalable architecture support up to 250,000 LUTs and is available on TSMC 7/12/16/22/28/40nm, GlobalFoundries 12/14nm
• AI Inferencing IP can support 2 to 100 TOPS for more complex models

EnSilica

EnSilica, a UK company founded in 2001, is a fabless ASIC supplier that designs and supplies digital & mixed signal ASICs for automotive/industrial, healthcare and communications markets.

With a staff of 156 >10% PhDs, Ensilica has expertise in System, RF, Analog, Mixed-Signal, Digital, Software Design, Verification, Test, Package development, Production & Supply Chain.

Committed to quality, EnSilica is ISO9001:2015 certified, is an ARM Approved Design and Function Safety Partner, a TSMC DCA and GF Partner, and an approved supplier to 3 major automotive Tier 1s and one industrial OEM.

EnSilica has offices in Oxford (HQ), Wokingham (UK), Sheffield (UK), Bangalore (India) and Porto Algere (Brazil).

EnSilica have ASIC and design expertise in the following application areas:

• RF & Wireless:
  • RFIC design in CMOS, SiGe and BiCMOS
  • Low power GHz and sub-GHz radio design
  • Sub-1V operation
  • RFIC IP
  • Design of RF FE for LTE/5G, BT Classic/LE, WiFi, 802.15.6, NFC, DAB/FM, DVBS2X/RCS2
  • RF IP SoC integration
  • Custom radio designs
  • Safety & security critical proprietary radio
  • Optical communications
  • Rx/Tx
  • VCSEL/laser/LED drivers
  • Photodiode/APD receivers

• Sensing & Control:
  • Sensor Integration
  • Multiple sensor integration
  • Motion, magnetic, gases, respiration, thermal, humidity bio functions etc.
  • High voltage / automotive
  • High/low-side (36V) current-sense amplifier, 5 uVrms 0-10 kHz noise, >90dB CMRR
  • Trimmed for gain and offset stability over PVT
  • Designed for redundancy and compliance with functional safety goals
  • Low-power / low-noise
  • Voltage amplifiers for bio-signals, noise 100 nV/√Hz 0-100Hz, >90dB CMRR, 5 uA supply current
  • Transimpedance amplifier for gyro sensor, 100 fA/√Hz noise, precise phase response
  • Transimpedance amplifier for bio-signals, 10 pA/ √Hz noise, 100 uA supply current
  • Complex impedance measurement front-end

• Power Management:
  • Low-power SoC design
  • Multiple power modes
  • Energy scavenged
  • Low-power oscillators, PLLs
  • Power management
  • DC-DC, LDO
  • Voltage / Frequency scaling
  • With sub-1V operation, power gating
  • Custom logic and IO cell design including thick oxide libraries

• Healthcare and Medical:
  • Low power sensor interface for wearable healthcare and medical :
  • 3 lead ECG support
  • 2 pulsed photocurrent measurement inputs and drivers for
  • PPG (Heart Rate)
  • SpO2
  • NIRS (near infra-red spectroscopy)
  • Fluorescent glucose sensing (non[1]invasive to body tissue)
  • Body temperature sensor
  • Differential capacitive sensor
  • MEMS sensor interfacing
  • Complete with reference board and software

• Satellite RFICs
  • Ka band suitable for GEO, LEO
  • 17.2 to 21.2 GHz Rx
  • 27.5 to 30.0 GHz Tx
  • 4 Rx element paths
  • 4 Tx element paths
  • Ka-band fine gain and phase control
  • Integrated IQ frequency conversion
  • Comprehensive and flexible IQ IF/BB path to data converters
  • Low power operation VDDRF=1.1V
  • Logic at 1.8V
  • Support for large arrays
  • Analog, hybrid & digital beamforming
  • Small size WLCSP

• Digital and DSP
  • Systems/DSP expertise include
  • Modem design – BLE/DVB/DAB/WiFi
  • Remote Radio Heads - DDC/DUC
  • Advanced MIMO processing and beamforming
  • Advanced Radar signal processing
  • Cryptography
  • Development of efficient data-path designs
  • Integration of high speed interfaces
  • PCIe, USB, MIPI, CSI-2, CPRI, 1/25/10Gb Ethernet, LPDDR/DDR
  • Processor integration
  • Cores - Arm, Cadence Tensilica, MIPS
  • AMBA - AHB/AXI/APB
  • Advanced Verification
  • Constrained random SV based verification using UVM and VIPs
  • Embedding system models in environment using MATLAB/SystemC
  • FPGA based prototyping / emulation
  • Bit accurate models and GPU acceleration in CUDA
  • Post silicon validation
  • Embedded software
  • DSP and embedded software development for Arm, TenSilica, GPUs
  • Linux drivers and BSP
  • Physical design
  • Experience with all main foundries TSMC, GF, and SMIC
  • All main nodes from 180nm to 6nm
  • DFT for mixed signal, RF and digital including memory and other BIST, Test Compression, Boundary scan, JTAG
  • Best in the class tools follow including Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor and Keysight
  • Low-power design: clock gating, switchable power domains, voltage and frequency scaling, near threshold

Synopsys

Synopsys is a prominent technology company specializing in electronic design automation (EDA) software and semiconductor IP (intellectual property). With a rich history in the semiconductor industry, Synopsys offers a comprehensive range of products that empower engineers and designers to efficiently create and verify complex integrated circuits and systems. Their portfolio encompasses tools for design, verification, emulation, silicon testing, and more, catering to various stages of the chip development process. Additionally, Synopsys provides a variety of semiconductor IP cores, including processor architectures, interfaces, and security solutions, enabling customers to streamline the development of innovative and high-performance electronic products.