Physical Design & DFT Services by Pragmatic Silicon
At Pragmatic Silicon, we offer a comprehensive physical design services to help you bring your semiconductor designs to life. Our team of experienced engineers is adept at translating your design concepts into manufacturable integrated circuits.
Our Physical Design Services Include:
- Floorplanning and placement: Our skilled engineers will work closely with you to create an optimized floorplan and determine the best placement for various components in your semiconductor design. This ensures efficient use of space and minimizes signal delays.
- Power grid and clock tree synthesis: We understand the importance of power distribution and clock signal integrity in semiconductor designs. Our experts will synthesize power grids and clock trees to ensure proper power delivery and synchronization throughout the circuit.
- Routing and layout: Our team excels in routing and layout techniques, ensuring that all interconnections between components are properly established. We pay attention to signal integrity, noise reduction, and minimizing parasitic effects to optimize performance.
- Design for manufacturability (DFM) checks: We conduct thorough DFM checks to identify potential manufacturing issues early in the design process. By addressing these issues proactively, we help minimize fabrication problems and improve yield.
- Design rule checks (DRC): Our engineers perform meticulous DRC checks to ensure that your design adheres to the specific manufacturing rules and guidelines. This helps prevent layout errors and ensures compatibility with the fabrication process.
- Layout versus schematic (LVS) checks: We conduct LVS checks to verify the consistency between the layout and the schematic representation of your design. This ensures that the physical implementation accurately reflects the intended circuit functionality.
Robust Design for Test Solutions
Pragmatic Silicon specializes in providing comprehensive design for test (DFT) solutions to enable efficient testing and diagnosis of semiconductor designs. Our DFT services are tailored to enhance test coverage, minimize test costs, and streamline the overall testing process.
Our DFT Services Include:
- Scan chain insertion and ATPG: We integrate scan chains into your design to facilitate efficient testing. Our engineers also develop automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) techniques to generate test patterns that achieve high fault coverage.
- Built-in self-test (BIST) integration: We incorporate built-in self-test capabilities into your design, allowing for on-chip testing without the need for external test equipment. This helps reduce test costs and improve overall testability.
- Boundary scan (JTAG) implementation: Our experts implement boundary scan (JTAG) techniques to enable efficient testing of the interconnections between components. This allows for easier debugging and diagnosis of potential faults.
- Test pattern compression: We employ test pattern compression techniques to reduce the size of test data, minimizing test time and improving overall test efficiency. This helps reduce test costs and facilitates faster time-to-market.
- Fault coverage analysis: Our engineers perform comprehensive fault coverage analysis to ensure that your design is thoroughly tested and that potential faults are detected. This analysis helps improve the overall quality and reliability of your design.
Static Timing Analysis Services:
Pragmatic Silicon provides comprehensive static timing analysis (STA) services to ensure that your designs meet timing requirements and operate within specified frequency limits. Our STA services help identify and address timing issues early in the design cycle, reducing the risk of costly re-spins and ensuring on-time project delivery. By leveraging advanced STA tools and methodologies, we help our clients achieve timing closure, thereby maximizing design performance and reliability.
Our STA Services Include:
- Timing constraints development: We work closely with you to define accurate timing constraints that capture the desired behavior of your design. These constraints guide the STA process and help ensure that timing requirements are met.
- Clock domain crossing (CDC) analysis: Our experts perform CDC analysis to identify potential issues that may arise when signals cross between different clock domains. By addressing these issues, we ensure proper synchronization and avoid data corruption.
- Setup and hold time analysis: We meticulously analyze the setup and hold times of your design to ensure that data is stable and valid during the clock edge. This analysis helps prevent timing violations and ensures reliable operation.
- Critical path analysis: We identify the critical paths in your design, which are the paths with the longest delay. By optimizing these critical paths, we can improve overall performance and meet timing requirements.
- Timing closure support: Our team provides dedicated support throughout the timing closure process. We work closely with you to address any timing issues that may arise and ensure that your design achieves timing closure.
Comprehensive Signoff Solutions
Pragmatic Silicon offers a full suite of signoff services to validate the integrity and reliability of your semiconductor designs. Our signoff solutions encompass a range of rigorous checks and analyses to ensure that your designs meet the highest industry standards and are ready for fabrication.
Our Signoff Services Include:
- Physical verification (PV) signoff: We perform comprehensive physical verification checks to ensure that your design meets the specified design rules, including checks for spacing, width, and other layout-related parameters.
- Timing signoff: We rigorously analyze the timing of your design to ensure that it meets the required timing constraints. Our timing signoff services help identify and resolve any timing violations, ensuring reliable operation.
- Power integrity signoff: We assess the power distribution and integrity of your design to ensure that it meets the power requirements and avoids potential power-related issues. This includes analyzing power grids, voltage drops, and electromigration effects.
- Electromigration and voltage drop analysis: Our engineers perform detailed analysis to identify potential electromigration and voltage drop issues in your design. By addressing these issues, we help ensure the long-term reliability of your semiconductor design.
Our signoff services are designed to mitigate risks, optimize design quality, and expedite the tape-out process.
For more information about our physical design, timing analysis, signoff, and DFT services, please contact us to discuss your specific project requirements and explore how Pragmatic Silicon can support your semiconductor design endeavors.