Microelectronics Research Department

Mission

Providing several services in design and integration of digital, analog and mixed systems:

• Circuit and system design

• Circuit and system Test and verification

• Integration on ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) and FPGA (field-programmable gate array)

• IP design and integration, Customization and verification services

Skills & the know-how

1. System level Design:

• Design, analysis and algorithmic optimization

• Modelling system: HDL, C/C ++, System C

• Exploration of architecture & Analysis of performances

• Virtual prototyping (Co-simulation and software / hardware co-verification)

• Co-Synthesis

• Prototyping Software / Hardware

2. RTL Design & Verification

• RTL design (HDL): Verilog / VHDL (Industry standards)

• Synthesis

• Verification plan

• Test vectors production

• Verification & Test

• Integration & Prototyping on FPGA

3. High-performance FPGA on system Prototyping

• Multi-FPGA design

• Synthesis, simulation and verification

• Prototyping and integration platform: Processors, Memories, IPs, etc.

4. IP Design and verification services

• Design of new IP complying to industrial standards customization

• Conception of IPs at various abstraction levels

• Diverse domains: DSP, Communication Protocols, Treatment of images/audio/video, 

  interfaces I/O and memory controllers

• Customization of the IPs

• IP Migration from and to different platforms

5. Design and verification standards

• Design Assurance of Electronic Hardware “Airbone RTCA DO-254 DAL A“

• Control on the application of the norm DO-254

• Virtual and physical verification process

• Process documents of FAA certification

6. Embedded Software design

• Embedded OS and RTOS: Embedded Linux, μClinux , μC/OS II, eCos

• Target Processors: CAP9, CortexM1, NIOSII, …

7. Analog And Radio Microelectronic Activities

• Design of Analog IPs.

• Analog Front-End & Back-End

• Design of mixed circuits: DAC-ADC-SD.

• Design of RF CMOS IPs: LNA, Mixer, Oscillator.

• Design of RFID chip.

• Design of digital communication circuits

• E/R MIMO-LP-OFDM, E/R MIMO-MC-CDMA.

Sectors of application

• Video Transport & Decoding

• Automotive/Avionic/Telecommunication

• System & Process Control

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