Product Engineering

Solutions
- Concept to Commercial Success-

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Solutions in a BOX
From Concept till Commercial Success
ASIC -Architecture, Design, Verification, Synthesis, PD & FAB
interface
BOARD - Design, Analysis, Prototypes, Volume Manufacturing
& Certifications
FPGA - Product Design, Validation, Commercialization
Embedded Software Drivers (Win,Linux), UI, Firmware

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Geography & Alliance

Clientele spread across Europe, USA & Asia

Proven Team with Track record of 14+ projects/products
Multi location Engineering Team USA, India & Germany

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About Aizyc
Proven Competence in ASIC, FPGA, Board, Firmware / Software
solutions for various markets
Concept to Customer Product Development Capability
More than 12 first-pass successful silicon experience
ASIC devices brought to market range from USB bridges, PCI(e)
adapters and SoCs of varying degrees of complexity.
Domain experience spans Consumer Electronics, Industrial
solutions, Enterprise Networking, Personal Computer products,
Digital Imaging and allied fields.
Core Team has shipped several products in million+ volumes and
worked in name brand companies developing cutting edge,
revolutionary technologies.
Top Notch Engineering Team with strategic spread, across
geographies to enable 24/7 development cycle and cost effective
project budgets.
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End-End Engineering
Services

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Design Services ASIC Engineering

Pre silicon
Design & RTL
Behavioral Model
Test bench and Scripts
Verification - simulation of
silicon's RTL.
Pre-silicon validation
Targeted to FPGAs
Synthesis & Timing Closure
H/w & S/w co-simulation on
FPGA platforms

Post silicon
Design silicon wake-up boards
Silicon validation (physically
on the bring-up board)
Customer Reference boards
Develop software for Silicon
Wake-up & validation
BSP, diagnostics, device
drivers, APIs
Develop FPGAs for Proof Of
Concept
Support your customers by
designing h/w, s/w and/or End
to End Products

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Technology Exposure
Communications

Networking: Ethernet (10/100,1G &10G, IPv4/IPv6

Broadband: VoIP, Media Gateway, Virtual USB
Interface : PCIe, USB, IrDA, OTG
Audio & Video Streaming, Jpeg 2000, HDMI
Wireless (WiFi & WiMax)

Computing
Single Board Computers
Host Processor Modules

Storage Systems
SSD
SATA

Consumer Electronics
SoHo
Printers
Hand-held Devices

Medical / Health Care

Temperature control, Patient Monitoring
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ASIC / IP experience
overview
ASIC - PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
ASIC - PCI to UART / ISA / Parallel port
ASIC - USB2.0 to Ethernet, IrDA, UART, Parallel Port
SoC - ARM 9, Ethernet to USB & PCI Host
SoC 500mhz ARM 9, Gigabit to USB2.0 Host, PCIe, Dual
LCD Controllers
IP SATA Controller, USB2.0, OTG, SDIO
Technology 90nm, 20 Million gate designs
FAB Relations UMC, Tower

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SoC IPs
SDXC Host Controller

Our SD 3.0 Host IP provides supports for various system interfaces VCI, AHB
and OCP. Number of slots[1/2] available is also configurable. It provides UHS-I
modes of operation - DS, HS, SDR12, SDR25, SDR50, SDR104 and DDR50.

SDIO2.0 Host Controller

SDIO2.0 Device Controller
USB2.0 Device / Host & OTG

USB2.0 device controller IP core is fully synthesizable core suitable for

different process. Generic application interface for easy integration. It
supports different endpoint configurations for varied applications. Supports
Control, Bulk and Interrupt transactions

10/100 Ethernet MAC

UART, I2C, SPI

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ASIC Design
Samples

PCIe to Uart

USB2.0 to Ethenet

USB to IrDA

PCIe to USB2.0

USB over Ethernet

Single Chip SoC for Point

of Sale
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USB to Ethernet
Case Study
Concept to Market in 3
months
Replaced competitor part
with a device having more
features, more
performance and less cost.
Several hundred thousands
shipped Integrated USB
2.0 PHY
Features
USB Specification 2.0
Compliant
10/100 Mbps Ethernet
Controller
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ARM SoC Case

Study
Network Appliance Co Processor
Complex first time right SoC for SoHo
market
Project led by Aizyc CoFounder, silicon
realization in 15 months
Features
32-bit, 500 MHz ARM9 CPU
Two USB2.0 host ports with on-chip
PHY
OTG feature supported
10/100/1000 Ethernet MAC
250 MHz DDR2 SDRAM interface
PCIe Root Complex and Peripheral
interface
VGA controller with FPD interface
TSO, LRO hardware functions
0.13 um UMC process
292 BGA

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Product Engineering
Process
Feasibility
Study

Technical

Feasibility

Time to market
NRE Cost
Rough BOM cost
Requirement
Freeze

Hardware
Design

RTL Design
FPGA Design
Board Design
Simulation
Testing

Software
Design

Drivers
OS & Protocols
Diagnostic tools
Test platforms

Industrial Design

Mechanical Design (Assistance)

Thermal Analysis
User Interface Design
Field Feedback
Clinical Trials (Medical)

Prototyping

Competition Analysis
BOM Analysis
BOM Procurement
Board Fabrication
Component Assembly
Sample Production
Volume Production Handover

Compliance &
Certifications

Compliance submission
Certifications

Concept
Certified Product

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Products Engineered
Location Based advertisement system
for Public Transport

Power Monitor with WiFi

Temperature control for

Cryogen

GSM to Ethernet Mobile

Office

OMAP Based
Android Phone
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Temperature Controller
- Case Study
Architected, designed and developed a platform for Liquid
Nitrogen Temperature control.
Solution involves precision A/D and D/A blocks, custom
designed central microcontroller board, battery backup and
switchover, touch screen LCD panel.
Specification to Prototype in 6 months.
Key aspects of design
Micro controller interface
RTD Sensor interface
Display interface
Power Management
GUI Application

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Power Monitor Case

Study
Design to track, monitor and control power consumption
Transmit data wirelessly to a central logger
Design Features
Based on energy measurement ASIC
Input Current up to 20 A

Key Challenge
Lowest power consumption needed for the device itself
(<1Watt while active, 1mWatt while standby)
Design needed to allow remote control

Responsible for architecture, design, part selection and

successful implementation
Currently in prototyping phase
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Power Monitor
Case Study continued

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Intelligent Bus Signage

case Study

GSM, GPS location based advertisement & tracking system

Remote monitoring and public broadcasting
Hardware
ARM9 based prototypes
Embedded processor capable of running interfaces like RS-232, USB
VGA splitter to drive 4 VGA or SVGA by single PC
LCD display available with RS232/USB/Ethernet or RS 422 interface
Multiple boards and assemblies in hardware platform

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Board Design
Services
High Speed Circuit Cards
Power Distribution / Experience in power supply designs

DC-DC power - both linear and switched mode regulators

Regulatory Compliance - FCC, UL, IEC, CE

Design For Manufacturability
RF Design Capability
Packaging and Technology Selection

Blind/Buried via, Aspect ratios, SMT, Dielectric, etc.

Tools supported

Allegro, Expedition, Pads, PCAD, OrCAD, Protel, etc.

Experience with various Embedded Processors

Member of India Design House Program (IDHP)
Member of the Microchip Design Partner Program
Partner with DDI Global (Leader in PCB Manufacturing Technology)

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Design Services Board Design

Reference Boards
Silicon Wake-up Boards
Interface Boards
Single Board Computers
(SBC)
Complexity - 4 to 32 layers
Density 2-3K Nets, high
ball count BGAs
I/O technologies DDR2/3,
PCIe, XAUI, USB
High-speed serial Upto 10
Gbps
Analog - Audio, Video, & RF
Verification - SI & Crosstalk
Design for DFM, DFT
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Silicon Wake-up
Platform Case Study
Design, development and deployment of ASIC post silicon
validation platform
Complexity:

Trace width 3.5 mil

BGA pitch .65 mm
Voltage Domains 7
Size 30 X 12
Layers 16
Total Current 20 A
Number of nets 2400
Total connections 8000
Total parts 2000

High speed interfaces:

576 Mhz Custom Differential interface
64-bit 667 Mhz DDR3 interface
6.25 Gbps XAUI interface

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Audio Amplifier Design

Case Study
Design implementation of
custom audio amplifier board
for the consumer electronics
space.
Audio Amplifier Board Design
Based on TI chip- TAS57014
Array of 16 speakers

Power dissipation by one chip 20 watts

Handling 80 watts of power
dissipation without a heat sink
was the major design
challenge
Design performance qualified
by TI Engineering Team

Array of
16
Speakers

Master
Reset

TAS 5704 -1

OP
CON
1

TAS 5704 -2

OP
CON
2

LRCLK
SCLK
SDIN1
SDIN2

TAS 5704 -3

CFG
Gain
Format
TAS 5704 -4

OP
CON
3

.
.
.
.

OP
CON
4

Power
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PSOC Board Design

Case Study

Cypress PSOC based demonstration board

Stringent board size requirement
Blind and Buried Micro bias
Complexity:

Size 22mm X 55mm

Total connections 250
Total parts 83
Trace width 3 mil
BGA Pitch .5 mm

USB
Connector

Responsible for not only design and

verification of the board, but also for the
manufacture and timely delivery across
the globe for final demonstration

1.8 V
Power

3.3 V
Power

CYPRESS
PSOC

CRYSTAL

MLC
NAND

I2C
EEPROM

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MP3 Player Case

Study
Design based on
processor IC J24750
Multiple interfaces
support

Wifi
SD
Storage
Ethernet

USB
UART

Responsible for
schematic, layout and
board design.
Key challenge - Iphone form
factor.
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USB to Ethernet
Dongle Case Study
Design highlight
Based on MosChip 7830
10/100 Base-T Ethernet devices
USB 2.0 Device Controller

Key design challenge

Small dongle form factor
Stringent board size requirement

Clock

USB

Power

MCS 7830

Ethernet

Complexity

Size 26mm X 63mm

Total nets 45
Total connections 169
Total parts 64

Minimal BOM cost possible

Responsible for complete design, layout and testing of
the board
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Design Services FPGA

Proof of Concept Designs/
Demo Systems
FPGA Prototyping
Retarget Services
FPGA-to-FPGA
FPGA-to-ASIC
ASIC-to-FPGA

Design with Xilinx/Altera

Six FPGA-ASIC design
experience

Experience with Virtex and

Stratix Families
Rocket IO and SERDES
Complete SoC porting on
FPGA
Design partition across
multiple FPGAs
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COSMOS FPGA Emulation

Platform Feature List

PCI Express based ASIC Emulation

Platform
Virtex 5 series FPGA
TI XIO1100GGB PCI Express PHY (x2)
for PCIe interface
DP83865 10/100/1000 Ethernet PHY
with RGMII
FPGA IO configurable as single ended
or LVDS on IO Header
Single SODIMM connector for DDR2
(Or DDR3)
Low skew global clocks
Powered by single ATX power supply in
standalone mode. Option to draw
power from PCIe slot for low power
designs
MICTOR connectors on select banks
for logic analyzer debugging

Customizable with additional

interfaces using IO header. Daughter
cards can be designed based on
request
ARM926EJ-S Core tile interface
(Provided by ARM)
Status LEDs and DIP switches on
some IOs
FPGA configurable using CF card
RS232 port for debugging CPU
Parallel NOR Flash interface with
8MB ST Flash
SD/SDIO/MMC interface
High Speed SPI Flash (ST, 8 MB)
USB3.0 PHY interface (Optional)
ISP1504 based USB2.0/OTG interface
Optional XAUI interface for high speed
connectivity
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COSMOS

Block Diagram

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20M gate FPGA

Validation Case Study
SOC validated on FPGA for digital
still and moving picture cameras
Hardware

Two 32 bits embedded CPUs

Interfaces
Gigabit Ethernet
High speed XAUI
DDR3 Memory Controller
Second Generation PCIe
SD host & Device

HDMI

Other
Chip
Interfaces
DDR3
Memory
Controller

HD-SDI

XAUI

Arbiter

Two 32-bit
CPUs

Memory Controller
AHB Interconnect

OMAP
Slave

SATA Host Controller

HDMI, HD-SDI display interface

Complete design CUSTOM

partitioned and ported on to

Gen2 PCIe

SATA

SDIO host/
device

16 Virtex-5 LX330 FPGAs

All interfaces brought up and

validated on FPGA emulation board
All interface worked first pass on
silicon

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FPGA ValidationCase Study

Real time encoding and decoding of
images
System configured and controlled
by 32bit RISC CPU
Encoding/Decoding of both RAW
and RGB code streams
Completed

RTL integration
Stand alone and top level RTL
verification
Complete encoder/decoder engine
porting on FPGA
Custom design partitioning onto six
Virtex-5 FPGAs
FPGA validation

AHB IF

RAW /
RGB
Data

Encode
Decode
Engine

DDR IF

Design worked on silicon in

first attempt
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FPGA Product
Design Case Study

Scope
To design and implement a bridge
controller between a given single lane
multi-function PCIe controller and a
given 4 ports USB host controller, and
port this complete design on FPGA
platform to verify full functionality of
PCIe to 4 ports USB controller.

High Level Requirements:

The FPGA prototype should be able to

Work with the standard Windows and Linux drivers

Work with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux

Interface with all types and classes of USB devices

Only functional verification and no performance criterion

Must pass the USB-IF certification tests from USB.org

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Design and implement the bridge controller in Verilog HDL

Develop top level RTL verification environment with test
plan, test bench and test cases

Choose appropriate FPGA part for porting complete design

Design, layout, manufacturing, assembly of FPGA prototype
platform

Functional testing of FPGA prototype

Design document

Verification document

System design document

Functional test report

USB-IF test report

Verilog source code

Synthesis constraints and scripts

Two working FPGA prototypes

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Design Services Embedded

Device Drivers and Diagnostics

Board Support Package (BSP) development, RTOS bring-up
Download/Flashing/Image signing solutions
Protocol stacks porting/Integration
Linux test automation for silicon validation
Test automation Integration and Regression testing

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Embedded Software
Capabilities
Capabilities

Details

Processors

ARM (OMAP 5910, 16xx, 17xx, 24xx, 1230,

2230, 3430, 3530, DM6466, Strong ARM
SA110) , PowerPC (IBM405, IBM440, MPC860,
MPC8240, MPC8260), MIPS (R-52xx), x86 (386,
486), Pentium, Celeron, Core2Duo, i960, xScale
(PXA 255), Micro-controllers

Operating
Systems

Embedded Linux, VxWorks, WinCE, Nucleus,

NetBSD, FreeBSD and proprietary kernels

Diagnostics

POST, Prototype debugging & production

diagnostics

Applications

MFC based application for diagnostics/downloading,

Image signing etc.

Languages

C, C++, C#, Java, HTML, XML, Tcl/Tk, PHP, Perl

Script, Python, Shell Script, Expect
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Android Porting on
OMAP Case Study
Required to port Linux on a custom platform with
OMAP353x
Ported the following

Low level drivers

Bootloader (U-Boot)
USB2.0, sound and SD Card drivers
Linux kernel

Currently involved in porting Android for the same platform

for mobile application development

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UI / Firmware for Cryogen

Control Case Study

Architecture development for the FW and UI of an

automated temperature controller
Product designed for medical diagnostics
Developed the complete UI framework
Developed drivers for:
USB2.0 interface for mass storage based data download
SD Card for data logging
Serial flash for local storage

Tools:
C language
Microchip IDE/MPLAB

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Networking Domain
expertise
Designed and developed Layer2 EVC based MAC address
table management support based on EVC specifications.
Developed next generation chassis and line-card firmware
support for Catalyst 4500 series switches, This solution
provides up to 24Gbps data rates per slot. The cards
include 10/100/1000BaseT with POE, X2 based 10GE and
SFP ports.
Designed and developed firmware support for a non-blocking
stub ASIC to provide MAC level link management on
Catalyst 4948
Designed and developed management support for 48 port
Catalyst 4000 series modular switches that are capable of
providing 6Gbps per slot.
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Device Drivers
Design / Development of Ethernet driver on Windows 95 /
98 / NT / 2K / Linux / MAC.
Virtual Serial Port driver on Windows/Windows Vista for
Serial port server device.
Design and implementation of Bus driver and related
software for PCI Express Root Complex verification.
Design and implementation of USB Ethernet driver for
Linux/Windows/Windows CE.
Design and implementation of Apple MAC/Linux IrDA driver.

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PC Communication
Developed PC<->Microcontroller interface via USB
All the interface functions on the microcontroller touch
screen GUI were duplicated on the PC interface
Full control of the embedded unit remotely from PC
Ability to download process data, programmable recipe
Data Analysis on the process data
Input process data into database
Firmware upgradability via USB

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Team Size - overview

Product Engineering- 29
ASIC 10
Software-2

Firmware-3

Systems-10
Analytics &
BOM - 4

*Median experience of engineering 6+ years

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Clientele

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Engagement Models
Need Based Consulting
Model (NBCM)
Project Based Consulting
Model (PBCM)
Shared Risk Model (SRM)
Dedicated Development
Team Model (DDTM)

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