Silicon IP

QuickLogic

QuickLogic, a trusted partner of Quantum Leap Solutions, brings over 35 years of expertise in FPGA technology. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, and ISO-9001 certified, QuickLogic is a NASDAQ-listed company (QUIK) known for its innovative programmable logic solutions.

Key Offerings:

• eFPGA IP: QuickLogic's embedded FPGA Intellectual Property (eFPGA IP) enhances integration, reduces latency, and lowers power consumption compared to traditional FPGAs. It supports a wide range of process nodes from 12nm to 250nm, making it suitable for various applications, including commercial, automotive, and radiation-hardened environments.
• Design Services: QuickLogic offers comprehensive design services to help customers achieve efficient, reliable, and scalable reprogrammable logic architectures. Their open-source tools and flexible solutions ensure fast time-to-market and easy integration with standard ASIC tool flows.
• Device Storefront: QuickLogic provides a storefront for FPGAs, chiplets, and more, catering to diverse customer needs.

Market Applications:

QuickLogic's solutions are widely adopted in various markets, including aerospace and defense, industrial automation, automotive, data centers, and wireless communication. Their eFPGA technology is particularly beneficial for applications requiring efficient calculation, precise timing, security, and size, weight, power, and cost reduction (SWAP-C).

Recognition:

QuickLogic has been honored with multiple awards, including BAE Systems' 'Partner 2 Win' Supplier of the Year award and the 'FAST LabsTM Technology Innovation Partner Of The Year' award, highlighting their dedication to delivering state-of-the-art embedded FPGA Hard IP capability to the Defense Industrial Base.

Innovative Solutions:

QuickLogic's FPGA-based solutions offer flexibility, adaptability, and built-in security features. Their technology enables continuous reprogramming to comply with updated security standards, making them a pivotal tool in the defense against cyberattacks.

Future Vision:

QuickLogic is committed to advancing programmable logic solutions with their chiplet vision, supporting new process nodes and enabling seamless integration with other chiplets based on application needs.

Silicon Creations

Silicon Creations supplies high performance IP from a broad portfolio of wide-range PLLs, High-Speed IOs and SerDes that is silicon proven and in mass production in many wafer fabs and in process nodes ranging from 3nm to 180nm, trending toward the angstrom era. These highly-programmable products, together with a solid development flow and industry-leading support has led to a growing list of repeat customers who voice their satisfaction with us.

Our comprehensive design and verification flow backed by detailed models calibrated to silicon results assures you that any customizations we make to our IP for our customers are low risk. We use our test lab, equipped with measurement equipment automated with Matlab to generate comprehensive reports on the functionality of new IP.

Key Offerings:

• A variety of versatile ring PLLs programmable for very-low power and for low jitter, suitable for battery operated devices and applications including system clocking, precision AFE and ADC timing, SerDes reference clocks and DDR interfaces.
• Fully integrated LC PLLs with ultra low jitter approaching that of single chip products.
• Analog glue functions such as differential buffers and multiplexers for low jitter clock distribution, Power on Reset (PoR) and Bandgap Circuits
• Free running oscillators with low power and excellent precision over PVT.
• Crystal oscillators providing reference clock to the SoC from off-chip crystal or MEMS resonators.
• SerDes analog layers (PMAs) with speeds from 100Mbps to 33Gbps with ultra-low latency and fast burst mode.
• Bi-directional LVDS interfaces and video display interfaces.
• Entire IP portfolio available for automotive use through Automotive Documentation generation driven by Automotive Functional Safety trained engineering team driven by ISO 26262 and ISO 9001 quality assurance standards

In addition to this wide portfolio of proven IP, Silicon Creations is happy to discuss your custom timing or interface application and can develop a semi-custom solution for you based on silicon proven blocks. By combining creative and novel design techniques with proven circuit architectures and verification methodologies, we deliver leading performance with low risk while maintaining highly competitive pricing and delivery times. Please review the list of our products on Design & Reuse and ChipEstimate .

Certus Semiconductor

Certus Semiconductor is a Unique IO & ESD Solution Company
We have assembled several of the world’s foremost experts in IO and ESD design to offer our clients the ability to affordably tailor their IO libraries into the optimal fit for their products. We work directly with you - that means we will meet with your architects, circuit & layout designers and reliability engineers to ensure that our IO and ESD solutions provide the most efficient and competitive solutions for your market space.

• Certus Semiconductor’s digital I/O solutions are capable of meeting many GPIO/ODIO standards including I2C, I3C, SPI, JECDEC CMOS, eMMC, LPDDR, SMBUS, DDC/DEC, ECEL,GTL, RGMII2, SPDIF and many more.

• Certus Semiconductor has silicon-proven libraries in TSMC, GlobalFoundries, and Samsung processes. These libraries can be licensed off-the-shelf or can be customized for your specific application, and are available as full libraries or on a cell-by-cell basis. We have experience consulting in Intel, TowerJazz, DongBu HiTek, UMC, pSemi, Silanna, Lfoundry, Silterra, TSI, XFab, and Vanguard processes.

• RF/Analog Circuit Characterization and Design
• Liberty Timing Modeling
• IBIS Models for I/O’s
• Custom Standard Cell Libraries
• I/O Library/Padring Integrated Oscillators, Voltage Regulators and PLL’s

RFIC and Wireless ASICs

IP / macro solutions for your wireless designs

• ADC and DACs to support Lidar, Radar, 5G and SatComm applications (up to 20GS/s)
• ADCs and DACs to support Industrial IoT, WiFi and BLE applications
• Automotive Fusa and ASIL-B, ASIL-D design support
• RF and mmwave macro and design expertise
• MIMO beamforming
• PCIe gen 3/4/5
• RFICs and mixed signal ASICs

Automotive Sensors

Automotive IP from our partners

• Lidar, Radar, Sensors, ADAS
• ADC/DAC up to 20GB/s sampling (customizable)
• ASIL-B, ASIL-D support
• 25GE, Automotive Ethernet
• C-PHY, D-PHY, A-PHY
• RFIC and Mixed Signal ASICs

Chiplets

Chiplet technology is a different way of integrating multiple dies in a package or system. There are several approaches to chiplets. The basic idea is that you have a menu of modular chips, or chiplets, in a library. Then, you assemble chiplets in a package and connect them using a die-to-die interconnect scheme. In theory, the chiplet approach is a fast and less expensive way to assemble various types of third-party chips, such as I/Os, memory and processor cores, in a package.

With an SoC, a chip might incorporate a CPU, plus an additional 100 IP blocks on the same chip. That design is then scaled by moving to the next node, which is an expensive process. With a chiplet model, those 100 IP blocks are hardened into smaller dies or chiplets. In theory, you would have a large catalog of chiplets from various IC vendors. Then, you can mix-and-match them to build a system. Chiplets could be made at different process nodes and re-used in different designs.