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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 can provide PCB Layout as an a la carte, project-based service.   As with most service bureaus, we require a schematic netlist as our inputs along with design constraints, board mechanicals, and component datasheets.  One of Nuvation’s key differentiators is our ability to provide more than just schematic-to-gerber services.  Upon request, Nuvation can provide engineering peer design reviews, signal integrity modeling, and even produce boards from your schematic. 


Areas of Expertise
 
· High-speed serial 1GHz to 10GHz circuits
· High-speed parallel (PCI-X, SPI-4.2, DDR/QDR, low-xtalk 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
· DFM for high-yield, low-cost production
· DFT (ICT coverage, JTAG test vector development)
· DFx (DFM/DFT/HALT/HASS,etc)

Project Examples
Algorithm Acceleration Platform


· 16 layer board, densely routed to make connector thickness
· Wide DDR2 and QDR2 busses up to 667MHz clocks
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PCIe x4 with 2.GHz diff pairs

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First-time-right

10G AMC for Telecom







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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

   
Infiniband to 10GbE XAUI



· 22,000 net, 24 layer PCB
· Circuit speeds up to 3.125GHz serial and 150 MHz DDR
· JTAG Boundary Scan Test Vector Generation
· First-time-right with 0 cuts & jumps
 
Broadcast Video Blades







· TMDS Pairs at 1.6Gbps
· 333MHz DDR2 SRAM
· Four independent switching power supplies
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DVI, Dual GbE, and USB 2.0 IO




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