Hardware Design
Solekai has been providing hardware solutions to its customers for many years. Our expertise ranges from requirements gathering to finished product including support in field. We provide services in conceptualization, architecture, system design, communications design, processor design, board design, analog and mixed signal applications, semiconductor chip validation, and FPGA / CPLD based design and development. Our hardware solution services can be broadly cataloged as follows:
Hardware Design Services
- One Chip Solution For Peripheral Design With Processor Interface
- Product Design
- Design Consultancy
- Prototype Solutions
- IP Core Design
- Re-engineering
- Verification
- Glue Logic Conversion
- PCB CAD
Verification and Testing
- VHDL/Verilog, System Verilog/System C
- Dedicated teams for Verification and Testing
Hardware System Design and Development Skill Sets:
Processor Based Board Designs
We specialize in developing custom embedded processor systems for our customers end products.
Turn key board design as well as professional software application development are available.
Applications typically include:
- Digital Video Appliance
- Set Top Box
- Consumer Product
- Industrial Control
- Digital Signal Processing
- Embedded user interface
- Data Collection/Sensor Interface
- Motion Control
- Embedded User Interface
- Communication Devices
Example processor architectures:
- ARM7TDMI, ARM9, ARM Cortex M3
- TI OMAP
- Microchip PIC
- 8051 Family
- Motorola 68K derivitaves
- IBM PowerPC
- Altera NIOS I/II embedded soft core
- Xilinx Microblaze embedded soft core
- Lattice Mico32 embedded soft core
- Intel Processors: Xscale PXA 250, 255, 270, 272, Centrino Chipset
- Freescale Semiconductor: iMx processors product line / family
- AMD Processors: AU1000, AU 1500, AU 1200, Geode
- ARM and MIPS core based
- Microchip: PIC/dsPIC
- Infineon: C166/C167
- RENESAS SH Series
FPGA Design Services and Capabilities
- Turnkey FPGA Design to Customer Specification
- Re-Engineering of Products in FPGA and Processor Technologies
- FPGA based prototyping
- Significant experience in large FPGA Designs
- High Speed Designs
- ASIC Prototyping in FPGA's
- ASIC replacement using FPGA's
FPGA work:
We have done FPGA designs using silicon from all of the major vendors:
- Altera
- Cyclone 1,2, and 3
- Stratix and Arria GX
- Max II CPLD designs
- NIOS II softcore system design
- SOPC builder used extensively
- Custom Avalon bus SOPC component generation
- Custom massively parallel DSP algorithm implementation
- High speed LVDS, DDR SDRAM, etc.
- Xilinx
- Virtex 6 and Virtex 7 Expertise
- Kintex 7
- Designs for Power Efficiency
- Approaches to cost reduction
- Sparta IIe designs
- Microblaze softcore design
- High speed LVDS, DDR SDRAM, etc.
- Lattice
- XP, and XP2 instant-on FPGA design
- Mico32 and Mico8 embedded softcore
- Lattice Zero power CPLD's for ultra low power logic
We have designed dozens of low-cost, low-power FPGA design wins specifically tailored for the demanding price/power/performace design constraints of embedded systems.
We are versed in both Verilog and VHDL (preferred) for hdl entry. Our designs are fully validated with testbenches.
Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Designs:
- Expertise in designing multi-layered PCBs
- Experience in relevant IPC standards & MIL Standard design practices
- High Speed Digital, Analog & Mixed signal Design expertise
- Experience of Signal Integrity in High Speed board design Experience of designing systems with PCI, PCI
- Express, VME, CPCI, USB interfaces, Touch Panels