ASICSoft Expertise

 

ASICSoft’s consultants are specialists in many tools and technologies.  The engineering world has an uncountable number of tools and technologies which are implemented every day.  Here is a sampling of the tools and technologies our consultants use consistently:

 

Hardware

  • ASIC & FPGA: SoC (ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, ARC, etc), Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor Graphics, ALDEC, Xilinx, Altera, Alcatel, Verilog, System Verilog, AHDL, VHDL, Specman, SystemC, Vera, Test Builder, C++, Perl, C, Assertions, RVM, VMM, AVM, OVM, Questa, VCS, Magma, Einstimer, PrimeTime, Active-HDL, Riviera-Pro, ModelSim, etc.
    • Complete Design Cycle: Specification & Architecture, Micro-architecture, Verification, Simulation, Modeling, Synthesis, Timing, Physical Design, Place & Route, etc.
  • IC Design & Layout: CMOS, BiCMOS, SiGe, Analog/Digital/RF, Low Power, High-speed, etc.
  • Board & Systems Design: Digital, RF, High-speed, Low-power, Small Form Factor, etc.  
  • Interfaces: PCI, PCI-X, PCI Express, USB, Rapid-IO, AMBA, DDR, DDR2, DDR3, QDR, Xaui, SerDes, SDIO, etc.

 

Software

  • Operating Systems: Linux/UNIX, Windows, RTOS (VxWorks, Nucleus, QNX, Linux, other), Novell, Mac, etc.
  • Languages: C, C++, Assembly, C#, Java, HTML, VB, etc.
  • Systems Level: Drivers, Kernel, Internals, BSP, DSP, Boot code, Bring-up, POST, Diagnostic, File Systems, Cache, MMU, etc.
  • Processors: ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, FreeScale, Coldfire, ARC, Network Processors (IXP, Cavium, etc), x86, 68k, Pentium, DSP, 8051, HC11, (8/16/32/64 bit), PIC, etc.
  • Applications & Middleware: COM/DCOM, .Net, ActiveX, Distributed Systems, Multi-threaded, N-tier, GUI, Client Server, Web based, etc.
  • Interfaces: PCI, PCI-X, PCI Express, USB, Rapid-IO, AMBA, DDR, QDR, Xaui, SerDes, SDIO, etc.

 

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Industries Served

 

There is, of course, no end to how many industries & technologies there are for developing hardware and software. Here is a list of the more common industries we support and technologies implemented.

 

  • Networking
    Router, Switch, Hub, NIC, Security, Intrusion Detection, Firewall, Protocol Development (TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, ATM, Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Modem, WLAN, WiMAX, HTTP, NDIS, MPLS, OSPF, RIP, VoIP, etc
  • Consumer Electronics. Video, Multimedia, Graphics, etc.
    Set-top Box, Cell Phone, Blu-Ray DISC, PDA, MP3, Gaming, DTV, HDTV, Camera, Navigation, MPEG, JPEG, AAC, DSP, OpenGL, H.264, Compression, encoding, decoding, On-line Streaming, Cable Video Streaming
  • Aerospace/Defense
    Flight Systems, Control Panels, Landing Gear and Mechanical, Communication Systems, Satellite, Space Systems, DO-254, DO-178B, 1553, FAA, Avionics, DARPA.
  • Wireless
    802.11, 802.16, WiFi, WLAN, WiMAX, CDMA, TDMA, G3, GSM, Satellite, Laser, Modem, etc.
  • Telephony
    SONET, T1, E1, POTS, H.323, VoIP, DSL, vDSL, aDSL, Wireless, Cellular, etc.
  • DSP
    Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, Motorola, echo cancellation, adaptive filtering, algorithms, etc.
  • Storage
    SAN, NAS, SCSI, iSCSI, RAID, Tape, Disc, Flash, etc.
  • Robotics and Instrument Control
    Servo, Machine Control, Data Acquisition, Labview, National Instruments, Vacuum, etc.
  • Medical
    Ultrasound, CCD Camera, X-ray, Minimally Invasive Surgical Robotics, Vision, Medical Capital Equipment, Hearing, etc.
  • Semiconductor Equipment
    Wafer handling machines, wafer transport railing, wafer inspection, e-beam, chemical application devices, etc.
  • "Chip" Companies
    Processors, Network Processors, Fabless Semiconductor, Custom ASIC/VLSI, Transistor Level IC, FPGA Device Makers, CMOS/BiCMOS, SoC, etc.
  • GPS
    Handheld, Hardware Devices, Mapping Software, etc.
  • Test and Measurement
    Oscilloscopes, Analyzers, Probes, Emulators, etc.

 

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