FPGA Design Services
Unlike application-specific integrated circuits, FPGAs can be reprogrammed with hardware description languages. They are widely used in high-speed data processing systems, consumer electronics, telecommunication equipment, robots, systems that use neural networks, and more.
What is our task?
We provide field-programmable gate array (FPGA) design services for systems that use sophisticated features and advanced technologies: video and image processing, machine vision, and industrial networking. Our FPGA designs can contain millions of tiny logic cells. We can program chips to do almost any digital function. We also provide Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD) design services for simpler logic applications.
What tasks are included?
From initial concept to specification, through block-level design to implementation and verification, we have the right expertise to help you design integrated digital circuits for your embedded system. We provide the design for FPGA (RAM-based digital logic chips) and CPLD (EEPROM-based chips). As part of our FPGA design services, we also develop devices based on systems on a chip (SoC) that can contain digital, analog, mixed-signal, and radio frequency functions on a single chip. These SoC capabilities bring extreme flexibility to hardware designs.
Architecture development
The main goal of the architecture development is to configure both logic and interconnections according to technical requirements. The architecture consists of programmable logic blocks which implement logic functions, programmable routing that establishes a connection between logic blocks, and Input/Output blocks for external connections.
FPGA design
We use Hardware Description Languages (HDL) such as Verilog and VHDL to describe the device functionality. Embedded Development Kit (EDK) implementation tools and reusable IP cores help us save months of development time. With the help of C++, we compile the ‘logic function’ and define how the components should connect to each other, and what sort of logic they should perform as the data flows through.
FPGA verification
Once FPGA design is complete, it is loaded onto the FPGA simulation. We verify logical elements to make sure each block of code can correctly process simple stimuli and each signal interface is correctly connected. We use various debugging tools and instruments: signal generators, scope, spectrum and logic analyzers, etc.
The configuration of IP cores
We provide integration and connection of third-party IP cores or blocks of logic and customization of soft IP cores developed in Verilog or VHDL for custom FPGA and CPLD designs. The soft cores can include UART, CPU, Ethernet controllers, and PCI interfaces.
CPLD design
We suggest using CPLD for devices that use a conventional microcontroller or microprocessor but still require high-speed data processing for small tasks. CPLDs are much cheaper than FPGA, they operate at higher frequencies and enable high performance. They are also easier to route which means the compilation time is going to be faster than it would be with FPGA.
