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NOVELIC provides semiconductor design services, creating tailored analog and digital IC solutions, specializing in millimeter-wave and AMS circuits and front-end systems. Our portfolio of IPs enables a fast time-to-market for your solutions.
Expertise Core Domain
One stop shop for IC design services offers:
- Analog & mixed signal IC design & layout
- RF & mmWave IC design & layout
- High-voltage IC design & layout
- Digital front-end & back-end design
- FPGA verification & validation
- ASIC validation with PCB reference designs for testing
Experience in Systems
A wide range of applications is available:
- AMS solutions for sensor data acquisition & conditioning (Hall, MEMS, etc)
- RF & mmWave communication front-ends
- RF receivers
- High performance custom PLLs
- Automotive ICs & ASICs for e-Mobility
Target Markets
We leverage our IPs to enable autonomous and IoT solutions for the:
- Automotive market
- Industrial & wireless market
- Consumer market
- Smart home market
- Medical market
Technologies
Experiences in PDKs, major foundries, variety of technologies and nodes is available:
- CMOS, BiCMOS SiGe, BCD
- TSMC, IHP, GF, TowerJazz, XFAB, UMC, STM, AMS, Samsung TI, GF…
- 22 nm – 0.35 μm
AMS, RF, and mmWave IC Design Services
Premium design services for AMS, RF, and mmWave integrated circuits, including related layout services.
Our Services
- IC hardware and software design solutions
- IC functional testing
- IC application-driven field trials
- IC validation
- Reference designs – evaluation boards
- End customer application support
Miniaturized 60 GHz FMCW Radar Sensor For Short-Range Applications
Project
Markets that rely on sensors, such as industrial, automotive, and consumer electronics, are heavily competitive. Sensor cost, size, and performance are the key deciding factors that dictate the overall price and quality of the end product. mmWave radar technology allows contactless measurement of close-proximity objects while significantly reducing module size and price. This project aimed to develop a 60 GHz FMCW radar sensor that would operate under heavy space restraints and synthesize extremely steep, wide-band, and highly accurate frequency chirps, which are indispensable in modern high-resolution short-range applications.
SOLUTION
The team had created a prototype 60 GHz sensor that integrates mmWave FMCW radar capabilities. The design leverages an advanced frequency generation system with a circuit board featuring embedded antenna arrays. What made this development notable is its compact form factor and cost-effective manufacturing potential, achieved through careful design choices and affordable materials. The performance remains competitive, featuring industry-leading 10-GHz sweep ranges and 240-MHz/μs modulation capabilities. This positioned the device as a promising candidate for widespread adoption in short-range radar applications.
High-Voltage IC Design Services
Premium design services for high-voltage integrated circuits (HVICs).
Our Services
- Design and development of high-voltage, high-current switches and ultra-fast (20 ns max propagation delay) gate drivers
- Design and layout of various building blocks (IO, over temperature detection, low-side driver over-current protection, VBG modification, analog and digital supply undervoltage detection, current sensing, etc.)
- Full design and layout support from specs to GDS
- Power supply and driver module EMC testing
- SK keyfoundry BCD and X-FAB SOI design and testing
- SOIC-8 package modeling
- Testing and characterization of devices
FPGA, ASIC, and SoC Design Services
We provide digital ASIC and FPGA design services as well as soft and hard implementation of digital signal processing. Discover our expertise in highly complex sensor fusion, HIL (hardware-in-the-loop), and multigigabit wireless communication solutions.
Our Services
- Xilinx Zynq multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) programmable logic (PL) and processing system (PS) development
- SoC design for sensor data processing
- FPGA/ASIC implementation
- Hard and soft DSP implementation
- WiFi algorithm development following 802.11a/g/ad/ah standards
- WiGig direct multigigabit wireless communication
- WiFi HaLow technology
- High-speed FPGA multigigabit and multichannel-based HIL systems
FPGA/ASIC SoC Design
Digital Signal Processing
Wi-Fi HaLow Technology
