Design Teams
Design Engineering
Open-Silicon design engineering teams are experts in handling complex ASIC designs. Our disciplined approach combined with active feedback to customers throughout the design process ensures that we deliver to a predictable design timetable. Our innovative design methodology combined with our deep design expertise and experience in the selection, qualification and integration of third party I/P, enable us to consistently deliver reliable silicon.
Early analysis of customer's design by our expert engineering team enables us to identify and resolve technical challenges even before the design is completed. Our rigorous and rigid design methodology reduces any chances of design escapes, allowing us to deliver an industry-leading level of first-time silicon success.
Our OpenMODEL™ provides customers complete visibility into schedules and design issues. This fosters a collaborative approach to design. Full visibility regarding design, IP selection and integration helps customers make well informed decisions, which are invaluable for architectural and design trade-offs.
Design Experience
Open-Silicon's engineering staff has expertise in all aspects of ASIC design with a combined experience of more than 100 ASIC designs. Key members of the technical staff have led IC design efforts in microprocessors, network processors, complex communication devices with very high speed I/O, and consumer devices. Our in-depth knowledge of design challenges (i.e. signal integrity, on-chip variations etc.) in today's advance manufacturing processes across various foundries helps us achieve the highest levels of reliability and first-pass silicon success.
Areas of expertise:
- Design analysis and architectural trade-offs
- I/P selection, qualification, verification and integration
- Logic design and timing analysis
- Design for testability (DFT)
- Physical design
- Physical design verification
- Advance manufacturing process knowledge
- Design with flip-chip & wire bond packages
- High speed I/O interfaces
Deep Design Expertise:
Engineers at Open-Silicon have expertise in all aspects of ASIC design with combined experience of over 100 tape-outs. Our independent Design Center Units (DCU) are structured such that they follow the same standards in staffing, infrastructure, training and methodology across each DCU. This ensures flexibility in design delivery while standardizing on design execution.
Dramatically Different Engineering Structure - Design Center Units (DCUs):
The Design Center Unit (DCU) is a revolutionary approach that Open-Silicon has developed to scale engineering teams efficiently. A DCU uses dynamic staffing of technology experts who are specialized in particular silicon engineering areas. This ensures our customers get a repeatable, predictable and reliable design process for custom ASIC development.
Each DCU can work on 8 design at a time, and completes 25 designs each year.
Team Formation:
In Open-Silicon's innovative Design Center Units, engineers are grouped into centers of excellence based on their expertise. When we begin a new project, one or more members from each center of excellence are selected to form a team. This dynamically formed team remains intact throughout the entire project execution phase. This ensures that all projects are handled by experts. Our engineers handle only one project at a time.
The concept of centers of excellence ensures that our engineers gain in-depth knowledge over a wide variety of design challenges in their area of expertise. This helpsus achieve our industry-leading levels of reliability and first-pass silicon success.
Benefits of Design Center Units:
Predictability:
- Tape-outs don't keep slipping.
- Fixed methodology allows for predictable schedules.
- Engineers with deep experience don't have to keep relearning tasks.
- Visibility for customer greatly increased.
Reliability:
- Engineers gain deep experience; increased time in trade creates technology experts.
- Dynamically assigned team stays together for entire project; project knowledge stays consistent.
- Methodologies constantly updated to keep up with silicon challenges.
- Checklists, Checklists, Checklists