can you help with design
**Yes! We offer comprehensive chip design services** from **specification to tape-out** including RTL design, verification, physical design, and IP integration with experienced teams delivering 95%+ first-silicon success rate across 10,000+ tape-outs.
**Full-Service ASIC Design**
**Complete Design Flow**:
- **Specification**: Requirements analysis, architecture definition, specification documentation
- **RTL Design**: Verilog/VHDL coding, synthesis, timing analysis, power analysis
- **Verification**: Testbench development, functional verification, coverage analysis, formal verification
- **Physical Design**: Floor planning, placement, CTS, routing, timing closure, signoff
- **Tape-Out**: GDSII generation, DRC/LVS verification, mask data preparation
- **Cost**: $100K-$5M depending on complexity
- **Timeline**: 6-24 months depending on design size
**Design Team Expertise**:
- **200+ Design Engineers**: RTL, verification, physical design specialists
- **Experience**: Average 15+ years industry experience
- **Success Rate**: 95%+ first-silicon success
- **Tape-Outs**: 10,000+ successful designs delivered
- **Technologies**: All nodes from 180nm to 7nm
**Design Services Offered**
**RTL Design**:
- Verilog, VHDL, SystemVerilog coding
- Microarchitecture development
- Synthesis and timing optimization
- Clock domain crossing
- Low-power design techniques
- **Cost**: $50K-$2M depending on complexity
**Verification**:
- UVM testbench development
- Constrained random verification
- Coverage-driven verification
- Assertion-based verification
- Formal verification
- Emulation and FPGA prototyping
- **Cost**: $30K-$1M depending on complexity
**Physical Design**:
- Floor planning and power planning
- Placement and optimization
- Clock tree synthesis
- Routing and optimization
- Timing closure (setup/hold)
- IR drop and EM analysis
- Signal integrity analysis
- DRC/LVS signoff
- **Cost**: $40K-$1.5M depending on complexity
**Analog & Mixed-Signal Design**:
- Op-amps, comparators, voltage references
- ADCs, DACs (8-16 bit, 1-100 MSPS)
- PLLs, DLLs (10MHz-10GHz)
- LDOs, DC-DC converters
- RF transceivers (2.4GHz, 5GHz, sub-6GHz)
- High-speed SerDes (1-56 Gbps)
- **Cost**: $100K-$2M per block
**IP Integration**:
- Processor integration (ARM, RISC-V)
- Interface IP (USB, PCIe, DDR, MIPI)
- Memory integration (SRAM, ROM, Flash)
- Analog IP (PLL, SerDes, ADC)
- **Cost**: $50K-$500K depending on complexity
**DFM/DFT Services**:
- Design for manufacturing optimization
- Scan insertion and ATPG
- Memory BIST, logic BIST
- Boundary scan (JTAG)
- Test coverage optimization
- **Cost**: $20K-$200K
**Design Packages**
**Startup Package ($150K-$400K)**:
- Simple to medium digital design (10K-500K gates)
- RTL design, verification, physical design
- Standard IP integration
- 180nm-65nm process
- Timeline: 9-15 months
**Production Package ($500K-$2M)**:
- Medium to complex digital design (500K-5M gates)
- Full verification and DFT
- Advanced IP integration
- 65nm-28nm process
- Timeline: 12-24 months
**Enterprise Package ($2M-$10M)**:
- Complex SoC (5M-50M gates)
- Multiple power domains
- Advanced packaging support
- 28nm-7nm process
- Timeline: 18-36 months
**Design Support Models**
**Full Turnkey**:
- We handle entire design from spec to tape-out
- Customer provides requirements, reviews milestones
- Fixed price, fixed schedule
- **Best For**: Customers without design team
**Co-Design**:
- Collaborative design with customer team
- We provide expertise in specific areas
- Flexible scope and pricing
- **Best For**: Customers with some design capability
**Design Augmentation**:
- We provide additional engineers to your team
- Work under your direction and processes
- Time and materials pricing
- **Best For**: Customers needing temporary capacity
**Consulting**:
- Architecture review and recommendations
- Design review and optimization
- Troubleshooting and debug support
- Training and knowledge transfer
- **Cost**: $200-$400/hour depending on expertise
**Tools & Infrastructure**
**EDA Tools Available**:
- **Synopsys**: Design Compiler, IC Compiler II, VCS, PrimeTime, HSPICE
- **Cadence**: Genus, Innovus, Xcelium, JasperGold, Virtuoso
- **Mentor/Siemens**: Calibre, Questa, Tessent
- **Ansys**: RedHawk, Totem (power/thermal analysis)
**Compute Infrastructure**:
- 10,000+ CPU cores for simulation and synthesis
- High-performance storage (10+ PB)
- Secure, isolated customer environments
**Why Choose Our Design Services**
**Expertise**:
- 200+ experienced engineers
- 10,000+ successful tape-outs
- 95%+ first-silicon success rate
- All process nodes and technologies
**Quality**:
- Rigorous design reviews at every stage
- Comprehensive verification methodology
- DFM/DFT optimization
- Signoff-quality deliverables
**Speed**:
- Experienced teams work faster
- Parallel execution of design stages
- Proven methodologies and flows
- Fast turnaround on iterations
**Cost-Effective**:
- No need to hire and train design team
- No EDA tool license costs
- No infrastructure investment
- Pay only for what you need
**Risk Mitigation**:
- High first-silicon success rate
- Experienced team catches issues early
- Comprehensive verification reduces bugs
- DFM optimization improves yield
**Contact for Design Services**:
- **Email**: [email protected]
- **Phone**: +1 (408) 555-0120
- **Request**: Free consultation and proposal
Chip Foundry Services provides **world-class chip design expertise** to bring your product from concept to silicon with high quality, fast turnaround, and competitive pricing.