IP Cores built to the highest standard Every Time
Overview
Our focus is quality, from the first always @ to a design ready for silicon, we take great effort to enable customer success with first time right silicon. Highest code quality following rigorous testing and various levels of verification, activities in simulation and in hardware aiming to ensure protocol interoperability, and finally close cooperation with third party IP providers for accelerating your deployments and reducing risks involved with integration.
Discover all the non obvious steps required to create our best in class IP products ensuring your next project will be delivered on time and perform error free to meet your requirements.
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Code Quality
IP cores shipped by Chip Interfaces passes a comprehensive suite of automated quality gates, from functional regression to static analysis, before it ever reaches your team.
Verification
UVM/VIP Regression Testing
Chip Interfaces IP cores are verified rigorously using UVM environments including randomized testing and VIP models to ensure first time right ASIC quality. Verification combines in house, commercial, and customer environments, targeting 100% coverage across all metrics. Select IP cores also include productized VIP based UVM environments for testing full systems including PHY/SerDes, controller IP, and application logic.
Static Analysis
Lint & CDC Checks
Chip Interfaces IP is delivered with code checked using Lint to ensure correctness, coding quality, and maintainability. CDC analysis verifies proper clock domain crossings and eliminates metastability risks early in the design. The result is safe, reliable, and thoroughly verified code ready for production ASIC and FPGA projects. The Lint and CDC used are Synopsys Spyglass, Siemens Questa and Verilater.
Automation
Automated Register Descriptions
Chip Interfaces uses automated systems to generate register list in html or RDL formats, with detailed descriptions of configuration bits and field parameters. This automated way ensures the documentation always follows the code and you are never faced with missing registers or outdated descriptions slowing down your integration process. Highest quality is what we aim for and what you can expect from our deliveries.
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Implementation Correctness
Chip Interfaces validates IP cores against real protocol equipment and in live multi vendor hardware environments as simulation alone is not enough.
Industry Events
Plugfest Participation
Chip Interfaces participates in industry plug fests to test IP cores on hardware against solutions from other protocol vendors. These interoperability events provide real world validation and valuable feedback across different implementations.
- Participation in interoperability plug-fests
- Hardware testing against other vendors’ solutions
- Validation across different implementations
- Real world conditions for deployment risk reduction
Hardware
Protocol Test Equipment
Chip Interfaces uses available protocol test equipment to validate designs against third-party implementations. These testers run compliance suites, analog signal tests, and generate relevant network traffic to ensure correct protocol behaviour.
- Use of protocol test equipment when available
- Compliance test suites for protocol validation
- Analog testing for clocks and signal characteristics
- Network traffic generation for behavioral testing
Hardware
Protocol Interoperability in Hardware
Chip Interfaces builds internal lab test rigs using market-available physical components to validate protocol implementations in real world conditions. Third-party components are connected to IP deployed on FPGA boards and tested using internal environments to ensure correct behavior and successful customer deployments.
- Internal lab test rigs using market-available components
- Use of ADCs, DACs, and two-wire bus components from leading vendors
- IP deployed on FPGA test boards
- Third-party components validated with internal test environments
Simulation
Protocol Interoperability in Simulation
For designs impractical to test in hardware, Chip Interfaces performs interoperability testing with similar third-party IP, including competitors, using simulation and serialized data stream captures. This approach ensures first time right, interoperable, standards-compliant, and deployment-ready solutions.
- Interoperability testing with third-party IP (including competitors)
- Simulation with encrypted IP connections
- Serialized data stream capture sharing and analysis
03
Interoperability & Risk Reduction
The hardest integration problems surface at the SerDes and PHY boundary. Chip Interfaces eliminates this risk through deep partner ecosystem validation and silicon proven designs.
Simulation
SerDes/PHY Interoperability in Simulation
Chip Interfaces performs interoperability testing with leading SerDes/PHY IP providers by connecting its IP designs to PHY simulation models and validating data transmission across different clock and line-rate conditions. This ensures correct integration and runtime performance while enabling delivery of integrated Controller IP + SerDes/PHY packages.
Simulation Validated
Hardware
SerDes/PHY Interoperability in Hardware
With support from a SerDes partner, Chip Interfaces conducts physical hardware tests by connecting Controller IP running on an FPGA to an ASIC test chip containing a SerDes PHY. Communication is monitored for test patterns and errors to ensure full interoperability under real-world conditions.
Hardware Confirmed
Silicon
Test Tape-Outs with PHY Partners
For designs such as chiplet and die-to-die connections where standard interoperability testing is not feasible, Chip Interfaces collaborates with SerDes partners to perform silicon test tape-outs of Controller IP together with PHY IP. The resulting test chips embed a test suite that validates interoperability across the full protocol stack, including both controller and PHY.
Silicon Tested
Production
Silicon Proven Designs
The ultimate validation of any design is successful customer deployment, and Chip Interfaces IPs have been taped out in silicon multiple times across different process nodes and fabs. Even for new IPs with first adopters, the team provides guidance based on extensive tape-out experience.
Production Silicon
Simulation
SerDes/PHY Interoperability in Simulation
Chip Interfaces performs interoperability testing with leading SerDes/PHY IP providers by connecting its IP designs to PHY simulation models and validating data transmission across different clock and line-rate conditions.
Simulation Validated
Hardware
SerDes/PHY Interoperability in Hardware
With support from a SerDes partner, Chip Interfaces conducts physical hardware tests by connecting Controller IP running on an FPGA to an ASIC test chip containing a SerDes PHY.
Hardware Confirmed
Silicon
Test Tape-Outs with PHY Partners
Chip Interfaces collaborates with SerDes partners to perform silicon test tape-outs of Controller IP together with PHY IP, validating interoperability across the full protocol stack.
Silicon Tested
Production
Silicon Proven Designs
Chip Interfaces IPs have been taped out in silicon multiple times across different process nodes and fabs. Even for new IPs with first adopters, the team provides guidance based on extensive tape-out experience.
Production Silicon