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“We are thrilled to have Nuvation as an Altera design partner. Their reputation is well known and we are counting on their services to accelerate the complex PLD designs our clients require.”
-- Altera

"Nuvation has been a long standing Xilinx XPERT partner and consistently delivers leading edge designs and rapid design cycles for our OEM customers.”
-- Xilinx

"Nuvation recently helped us to complete a complex design. The combination of Nuvations design experience with FPGA's and our engineering and design expertise with Analog-to-Digital Converters created a very useful test and characterization solution for one of our new series of data converters. It is fun working with Nuvation. They met all expectations."
-- Texas Instruments

FPGA · ASIC Partners
Altera CDC
Altera HardCopy Center

Altera High-Speed I/O

Altera DSP
Altera AMPP
Altera HardCopy Design Center
Lattice LEADER Design Ctr
QuickLogic QuickDR
Synplicity Certified Design Center
Xilinx XPERT
Xilinx Virtex-II Pro Early Adopter
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IP Cores
FPGAs as Structured ASICs
FPGA Configuration approaches
Ethernet over SONET
Video Processing FPGAs

Nuvation is a major FPGA design center with advanced capabilities in Actel, Altera, Lattice, QuickLogic, and Xilinx devices. We have design tools for all major platform technologies as well as advanced tools such as Synplify Pro, ModelSim, Active-HDL, MATLAB/Simulink, System Generator, ChipScopePro, DSP Builder, and SOPC Builder. Besides advanced capabilities referenced below, Nuvation is quite capable of writing simple state machines and glue logic in various PLD devices. Nuvation takes your design from concept through specification, design, development, IP integration, RTL verification, and migration to ASIC or HardCopy.

In addition to developing custom logic solutions, Nuvation also develops and licenses certain IP cores and provides IP integration services. Please see our IP section for more information on Nuvation IP.


Areas of Expertise
 
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High-speed designs involving multi-gigabit SERDES

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High-speed DDR, QDR, chip-to-chip I/O

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Ethernet over SONET, FibreChannel over SONET, RPR, GbE, XAUI, GFP

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SPI-3, SPI-4.2, T1/E1, EPON, VoIP, Packet Processing

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RapidIO, Infiniband, RocketIO, Serial Lite

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PCI-Express (PCIe) up to x16 lanes

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DSP algorithm development, digital signal processing in FPGAs

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Embedded MCUs such as PPC, uBlaze, Nios II

· High-speed video/image processing (medical, defense, broadcast head-end)
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MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WM9/VC-1, H.264 consumer and broadcast video (QCIF, CIF, D1, HD)

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Cable modems/Set Top Boxes: DOCSIS, QAM Demodulators, xDSL filtering

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ATA (IDE), ATAPI, SATA-I/II, SAS, iSCSI


Project Examples
Ethernet over SONET


· 8xGbE to OC-192 SONET IP Core design and integration
· SPI-4.2 interfaces
· GbE Muxing, flow control
· AIRbus, MCU Interface
· Up to 9.6K Jumbo Packets
· 100% Bandwidth with 0 dropped packets
· Implemented with no off-chip memory
· Project managed multinational design team involving 4 companies with 7 design centers across 3 continents
PCI-Express






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16-lane PCI-Express Physical Layer IP Core

· Validated in custom Hardware
· Tester was 34-layer PCB with 32 diff pairs at 2.5GHz
· High-speed QDR (320 bit x 500 Mb/s)
· Achieved 80 Gbps data throughput in Stratix GX40 FPGA
· Designed and verified in 8 months
· First-time-right!
   
NPU, CAM , CPU Interfacing



· 500K gate design developed for a
client with a mission-critical deadline
· Design start to bitstream release in 6 weeks!
· Many subsequent projects with various NPU/CAM/MCU configurations
 
Digital Signal Processing









· Real-time video processing, 14 bit at 500 MSPS
· Max utilization of DSP blocks in Stratix EP1S80
· Post-processing in TI C6713
· Other DSP co-processing designs with Virtex-II Pro, Virtex-4, TS201, and DM642




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