ASIC-Hardware Design Group specialises in turnkey development of Complex-Compact-Cost effective (CCC) electronics products for consumer and industrial applications, with total responsibility for chip to product design, ergonomics, engineering and transfer-of-technology for high-volume manufacture. A range of System-on-Chip (SoC) products for energy metering, smart card based applications, etc. have been successfully developed, deployed and ToTs effected. State-of-art design tools from Cadence and Mentor Graphics for IC and PCB designs, are synergised with the expertise and experience of more than forty design engineers in diverse domains of electronics hardware.

 

KEY AREAS

  • Energy Metering
  • Automotive
  • Bio-Medical
  • Consumer Electronics
  • Industrial

EXPERTISE

  • More than 300 man-years of IC design experience
  • State-of-art design infrastructure
  • Availability of validated IP cores
  • Tie-up with leading foundries
  • Expertise in embedded software development
  • Expertise in hardware/software co-design
  • Capability in product engineering

DESIGN TOOLS

  • Cadence EDA tools
  • Mentor Graphics Tools
  • Synplicity EDA Tools
  • FPGA Implementation Suite from Xilinx, Actel and Altera

Technology Development

Development Projects

Using state-of-the art facilities available for design of complex VLSI ASICs from concept to silicon, we have developed a range of synthesisable Intellectual Property (IP) cores under the brand name “ASTRA” which will be the basic building block for any SoC implementation.

ASTRA- Portfolio of IP Cores

  • ER8051: 8-bit microcontroller compatible with Intel 8031 family
  • ER9101: 16-bit Bit Slice ALU core
  • ER146818: Real Time Clock compatible with Motorola MC146818 RTC
  • ER16450 : UART compatible with National 16450 UART
  • ER15530: Manchester Encoder Decoder core
  • ER8085: 8-bit Microprocessor core
  • ER-PCI: Compliant with the PCI SIG PCI Local Bus Specification, Rev 2.2
  • ER3DES: Triple DES encryption and decryption core
  • ERUSB2: USB 2.0 function controller
  • ERRTC: Real Time Clock
  • ER902: 32-bit RISC Processor core
  • ERMAC: IEEE820.3 compliant Media Access Controller core
  • ERUSB-OTG: USB On-The- Go controller
  • ERTIMER: Configurable Timer
  • ERDMA: DMA controller
  • ERSATA –II: Serial ATA Host controller

Contract Projects

Hardware Design Group has executed various projects for private as well as Public sector organizations. With the strong footing in hardware and embedded system design supplemented with an arsenal of in-house designed IP cores, the group has successfully executed a number of projects. Our list of clientele include prestigious institutions like BARC Mumbai, BEML Mysore, VSSC Trivandrum, Namtech Bangalore, Keltron Trivandrum, BodyGear Ernakulam, ARDEE Pvt Ltd. Visakhapatanam, Adtech Systems Pvt. Ltd. Trivandrum etc, .

 

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  • More than 300 man-years of IC design experience
  • State-of-art design infrastructure
  • Availability of validated IP cores
  • Tie-up with leading foundries
  • Expertise in embedded software development
  • Expertise in hardware/software co-design
  • Capability in product engineering