Nuvation

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:
  • 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 · FPGA, DSP, and MCU with fine-pitch BGAs, Actives on both sides · 18 layer PCB, extremely high-density		Set Top Box · 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