Background
Softage Inc is introducing a new service offering – IC Design services.
Due to recent business agreement reached with a local specialized IC design team Softage Inc is delighted to provide this new service to our customers worldwide.
Softage Inc strives to become a leading provider of IC Design Services to semiconductor and OEM companies.
For inquiries regarding IC design please contact us at +7-383-330-96-55 or by email at .
IC Design team
IC Design team consists of 7 high skilled software and hardware engineers. All they are graduates from the best local high schools - Novosibirsk State University and Novosibirsk Technical State University with about 20 years working experience.
Mixed-signal circuits design team supports complete IC design solution including architectural and functional design, schematic design and transistor-level simulation, layout design and full design verification as well as final chip testing. Every year several students from Novosibirsk universities carry out diploma projects under team designers’ leadership.
Specialists of design team have experience with modern CAD systems, including Cadence, Mentor and Tanner design tools. Designers are familiar with Verilog and Verilog-A HDLs.
Previously, design team fulfilled a number of successful projects, including digital and mixed-mode analog digital gate arrays and ASICs on its base, switched capacitor filters, ADC and various OpAmps ICs.
The main application area of team projects is military and special purpose systems and equipment. The most important completed projects include:
 8-th order elliptic low pass switched capacitors filter IC (analog of MAXIM’s MAX297); | | 8-th order Butterworth low pass switched capacitors filter IC (analog of MAXIM’s MAX295); | | universal IC for active filter realization (analog for MAX274); | | CMOS 3000-logic-gates gate array and almost 20 ASICs on it’s base; | | Analog-digital mixed-mode gate array and four ASICs on it’s base; | | CMOS rail-to-rail quad op amp IC; | | 0.25-micron-CMOS-based 12 bit 20 MSPS pipelined ADC. |
The recent trend in team’s work is concentrated in the area of mixed-mode system-on-the-chip (SoC) and analog and analog-digital IP-blocks for SoC design.
Methodology
Committed to customer satisfaction, technological perfection and management excellence, Softage is able to deliver IC development solutions that reduce time-to-market, product cost and development risk.
Our broad range of proven expertise means we can fully understand our customers' needs, which is the first key step to delivering solutions that work - first time and on-time. We have proven ability to develop complex products incorporating advanced Mixed-Signal, Digital and Embedded Firmware functions.
Softage emphasis on 'Design for Production' is the 1st step in our commitment to fully functional production silicon and software. Beginning at the System Architecture stage, this philosophy is core to all phases of all developments - from hi-performance RF-analog IC's to highly complex Mixed-Signal SoC. Our in-house expertise in Test Development and Applications Engineering completes our full product development capability.
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Tools and Technologies
IC design team has a wide range of technology and EDA expertise. In the past years the team has worked on 90nm, 0.25um and 0.35um CMOS technologies. We have extensive CAD expertise that includes industry standard Cadence and Mentor tool chains.
Technologies
| 90nm, 0.25um and previous CMOS (Analog and Digital) |
CAD
| Cadence, Tanner and Mentor tool expertise | | Physical Compiler, DIVA | | ANSI C, C++, Assembler environments | | VHDL |
Project examples
| design of analog and analog-digital standard ICs and ASICs: | | analog-digital CMOS gate array; | | analog standard cell library for digital gate array: op amps (CMOS and BiCMOS), transconductance amplifiers, voltage multipliers, A/D and D/A converters, filters, comparators etc. | | Several analog-digital CMOS gate array-based ASICs implementing SC and SI circuit techniques; | | Video-band A/D converter; | | CMOS op amps as standard cells; | | 8-th order SC low-pass elliptic filter (Russian analog for MAX297) | | 8-th order SC low-pass Butterworth filter (Russian analog for MAX295) | | universal IC for active filter realisation (Russian analog for MAX274) | | 0.25 um CMOS 12-bit 20 MSPS ADC | | CMOS quad op amp IC; | | universal power supply buck-and-boost converter; | | several digital gate array-based ASICs for digital telecommunication equipment such as digital subscriber line interface, digital line signal receiver, modem for hydro-acoustic communication channel, speech scrambler etc. | | several FPGA-based special-purpose projects |
Business Models
Softage engages with customers on a number of levels. Softage' services Business Model may be a Time & Material or Volume Service Agreement.
Time and Materials is suited to developments where there are areas of shared responsibility, where task flexibility is important, or where there are likely changes in the customer requirements during the project.
Under a Volume Services Agreement Softage will dedicate a defined team to work exclusively for a customer for a period of time that is typically in excess of one year.
Under all models 'Deliverables' and 'Expectations' are clearly defined.
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