Analog & Custom Migration Services
The powerful combination of IN2FAB’s OSIRIS methodology and the company’s extensive experience of analog and mixed signal physical design coupled with an unparalleled knowledge of process migration has meant that customers have benefitted from migration services across very diverse analog and mixed signal design applications.This represents a major part of requirements made to IN2FAB. Typical customer profiles include:
- Semiconductor companies wishing to move analog and mixed signal library IP from silicon process generation to generation, e.g. 65nm to 45nm.
- Companies requiring complex IP such as PCI Express or USB 2.0 in derivative products such as a low power or low cost option.
- Foundry outsource (“Fab-lite”) strategies where internal foundry IP is required in an external foundry process and geometry.
- SoC developers needing application IP such as WLAN or 3G in a new process geometry thereby enabling resources to be spent on higher value added new design rather than redesign of existing IP.
- IP and fabless vendors whose customers require the IP in a different foundry or process option to meet an end application specification.
- Companies involved in M&A activity who need to move IP rapidly to the new partner platform so all IP is in the same process option avoiding the need to redesign at large cost to cycle time and resources.
The span design and application types performed by IN2FAB’s migration services are extensive and categorised in the following table:
IP Category |
IP types |
Typical Schedule* |
|---|---|---|
Standard IP |
ADC, DAC, PLL, Bandgap, VREG |
3-4 weeks |
Complex IP |
USB, PCIe, HDMI, MIPI, S-ATA |
8-10 weeks |
Application IP |
WLAN, Bluetooth, GSM, 3G |
12-16 weeks |
* Typical schedules are migrating from a Cadence format database including schematics and layout representing the design in the origin process to a DRC and LVS correct Cadence format database including schematics and layout representing the design in the target process.
Bandgap pre and post migration views, origin 130nm, target 90nm