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"Nuvation completed a complex design for iReady; on schedule and first-time right. Having a trusted partner to augment our internal team has enabled us to achieve our technology roadmap."
-- iReady

"Nuvation developed a critical piece of our leading broadcast graphics platform, on-schedule and on-budget. We have been impressed with Nuvation's engineering talent and customer-service."
-- Dan Mance, Chief Technology Officer, Leitch

Board Design Tools
Cadence ORCAD
Cadence Allegro PCB SI (SPECCTRAQuest)
Cadence Allegro Layout
Mentor DxDesigner
Mentor HyperLynx
Mentor PADS and Expedition Layout
Mentor Expedition Layout
Altium Designer
PSPICE A/D, HSPICE
ADS Field Solver, HFSS
Polar tools for PCB stackup
Eagleware GENESYS
Corelis Boundary Scan
Full hardware bring-up lab with DSO, DMM, Pattern Generators, Logic Analyzers, Rework stations
MS Office for Specs, BOM and Project Management
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Outsourcing Board Design
   

Nuvation architects and develops digital and mixed-signal printed circuit boards (PCBs) from your requirement specifications to production-ready designs. We are generally known for high-end designs but also excel at simpler projects such as 8-bit MCU dev kits and interposer cards. Nuvation has an impressive track record for ‘first-time-right’ designs up to 34-layer, high-speed/high-density boards and backplanes. Services can include prototyping, pre-production design verification, regulatory certification, test fixture development, and transition to offshore manufacturing.


Areas of Expertise
 
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High-speed serial up to 10GHz circuits

· High-speed parallel (PCI-X, DDR, connectors, DSP & FPGA arrays)
· High-density/high-pincount designs (‘first-time-right’ methodologies)
· Mixed-signal boards requiring noise/power isolation
· RoHS/WEEE compliant Lead (Pb)-Free designs
· EOL and cost-reduction redesigns
· Quick-turn/short-fuse projects
· DFM for high-yield, low-cost production
· DFT (ICT coverage, JTAG test vector development)
· DFx (volume production ready including BIST and test fixtures)

Project Examples
Optical Spectrum Analyzer


· Extremely tight form factor constraints (80x105mm)
· PCI Card Interface
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FPGA, DSP, and MCU with fine-pitch BGAs, Actives on both sides

· 18 layer PCB, extremely high-density
   
Set Top Box







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ADSL 2+ Analog Front End

· Digital Video board
· RF Receiver, mixed signal design
· Custom power supply
· DFx Regulatory Certification
· Offshore manufacturing
   
Infiniband to 10GbE XAUI



· 22,000 net, 24 layer PCB
· Circuit speeds up to 3.125GHz serial and 150 MHz DDR
· Completed in 5 months, first-time-right with 0 cuts & jumps
· Many similar successes in telecom/datacom, broadcast video, and defense applications
 
Virtex II Pro to TigerSharc







· TigerSharc TS201 and Virtex II Pro DSP Co-Processing
· Designed, developed, and integrated FPGA daughtercard with (beta) TS201 EZ-Kit
· FPGA RTL & DSP code for interface and verification
· Project start to completion in 3.5 weeks




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