Specification

SiliconGate provides expert specification review services to its customers. This service involves analyzing the SoC requirements and proposing the best solutions for the PMU design. SiliconGate considers factors such as performance, power consumption, area, cost, and time-to-market when presenting the solutions. SilicongGate aims to provide cost-effective solutions that meet or exceed the SoC requirements and expectations.

Design

SiliconGate offers design services for its IP cores. The design process is robust and follows the best practices of design for manufacturability (DFM) and design for testability (DFT). SiliconGate's engineers have extensive experience in ensuring the correct functionality of the IP cores from the verilog model to the final design. They also perform various validation phases to verify the quality and performance of the IP cores. They apply the appropriate DFM rules to optimize the yield and reliability of the IP cores. They also consider the testability of the IP cores and implement the necessary features to facilitate testing and debugging.

Integration

SiliconGate offers integration services for its IP cores. The IP cores can be provided separately with a Verilog netlist for integration or integrated into a single PMU IP that may include ESDs and bumps/pads. Silicongate also provides integration review service by its engineers to ensure optimal performance of the IP cores. The integration review service involves checking the compatibility, connectivity, integration parasitics, and reliability of the integration in the target system.

Characterization

At SiliconGate detailed characterization services are mandatory. Without them there is no way to ensure quality and support. Characterization: closes the system definition, the IP design, and the integration loops; creates the data base, hardware, and software needed to support the customer during the product lifetime; feeds final data into the continued improvement process that guarantees that products continue to be improved for the next generations.

Failure Analysis

Silicongate has a unique ability to provide failure analysis services. By integrating the failure analysis lab and characterization lab into adjacent spaces it can quickly reproduce events and analyse them. This service allows Silicongate to quickly identify and diagnose the root causes of any failures or defects in its IP cores or related parts of the chip.