Nuvation is recognized globally as a top-tier firm for telecommunications and data communications design. Our teams in San Jose, CA and Waterloo, Ontario, Canada are extremely well versed in all aspects of communications line card designs, HBAs, and backplanes. Nuvation also brings system-level design capabilities including FPGA development, RTOS and C-based MCU firmware, chassis design, thermal analysis, signal integrity analysis, and high-reliability design.
- Areas of Expertise:
- GbE, 10GbE/XAUI, GFP-F, GFP-T, LCAS, VCAT HO/LO
- T1/E1, T3, DS1/DS3, VoIP, QoS, EPON, Muxing/Flow-Control
- SONET OC-3 to OC-768, SPI-3, SPI-4.2
- ATA (IDE), ATAPI, SATA-I/II, SAS, FibreChannel
- Infiniband, RapidIO, RocketIO, HyperTransport
- PCI-Express up to x16 lanes, PCI-X
- Backplane design, ATCA/CPCI/VME
- NPUs, CAM memory, DDR/QDR
- FPGA Design and IP Integration
- PowerPC and other MCU firmware
- Video Broadcast DVI, MPEG-2/4, VC-1, H.264
- xDSL, CO and CPE, Cable modems
Project Examples
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Ethernet over SONET |
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8xGbE to OC-192 SONET IP Core design and integration |
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SPI-4.2 interfaces |
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GbE Muxing, flow control |
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MCU Interface |
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Up to 9.6K Jumbo Packets |
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100% Bandwidth with 0 dropped packets |
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Implemented with no off-chip memory |
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Project managed multinational design team involving 4 companies with 7 design centers across 3 continents |
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10GbE to Infiniband Board |
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Large FPGA array with Network Search Engine processing |
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Bi-directional traffic from Infiniband to 10GbE XAUI |
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24-layer board, 22,000 nets |
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2.5GHz and 3.125GHz circuit speeds plus 150MHz DDR |
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Completed in under 5 months! |
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First-time-right with zero cuts and jumps in the first article |
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16 layer board, densely routed with no blind or buried vias |
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10GbE and PCIe x4 interfaces |
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QDR2 and DDR2 at >300MHz clocks |
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RoHS Compliant |
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First-time-right |
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GbE-based Passive Optical Networking system |
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Multiple FPGA implementation |
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T1/E1/QSLAC/T3 muxing, flow control |
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QoS in VoIP application |
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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. 
