Your trusted partner
As people use the ever growing number of wireless services, streaming data between Internet servers and the devices in their hands, there are not many components in the signal chain, which the Uninord engineers haven’t made their mark on.
System design
The system design phase is the most critical phase of any project. This is the phase where the biggest gain from design expertise and effective optimization can be achieved, whether measured by BOM cost, total project cost saving or schedule, power consumption, performance or best achievable feature set or functionality.
System requirements
System specification
System architecture
HW architecture and partitioning
Performance and power analysis
ASIC design
We have very strong and wide experience from ASIC design starting from system and architectural design, and expanding that to both front-end and back-end design flows. Our engineers can handle a wide range of different tasks during the project.
- Architectural design
- Gated clocks, clocking
- DVFS
- Power management
- Power domain structures
- Power analysis
- Design partition
- Clocking and resetting for SoC (System on Chip)
- Block design
- DFT (Design for testability)
- Formal verification
- Synthesis, constraint generation
- Timing closure, Static timing analysis (STA), floorplan supervision
- Design verification
- High level synthesis
- Design maturity
- High speed serial interfaces (SerDes)
- DDR, QDR, RLDRAM, FCRAM
- PCI and PCI-E
- Fast prototyping with structured ASICs
- Rapid prototyping platforms
- Custom FPGA boards
FPGA design
We have a successful history of FPGA related work. In ASIC projects the emulation is normally done with some rapid prototyping platform or custom FPGA board. And we know how to use those emulation platforms. We are capable of making the design and utilizing design flow in a way that fulfills both the ASIC and FPGA requirements. We have also successfully executed a lot of projects that are targeted only to FPGA environment.
- Project and quality management
- Architectural design and specification
- Product feasibility studies: cost analysis, trade-off’s, feature sets
- All development work including the tools and infrastructure
- All major vendors
- Specification, design & verification
- Network and wireless protocols
- Clocking and resetting
- Place and Route
- Testing
- Emulation
- Rapid prototyping platforms
- Custom FPGA boards
UToolLibrary
For design creation Uninord has developed own design component library called UToolLibrary. Ready designed and tested components will shorten the design time for the project and the results will be more predictable. Components are targeted to be area optimized and low power. Components may be converted to ASICs and Xilinx or Altera FPGAs.
- DSP Filter path creation
- Channel filter
- Interpolation filter
- Decimation filter
- Multistage filtering
- DDS
- FFT
- Matlab models
- FIFOs
- RAM components
Uninord is known for professional expertise, reliability, flexibility and total commitment on the quality of results and project schedules.
Company
Uninord is your trusted partner
Uninord is founded in 2005 and located in Oulu, Finland. Our engineers have up to 25 years of experience in working with cutting-edge applications, technology and tools.
Uninord Ltd offers tailored digital ASIC and FPGA design services for system houses, IC vendors and technology providers in the communication industry. Typically our customers are global technology leaders in their fields and they require state-of-the-art skill sets and total commitment from their R&D partners.
The working model can be settled to confirm your needs. We can operate as an independent project group or as a part of your project group. The work will be done either in-house or on-site. We have up-to-date knowledge of the latest tools and of low power technologies in ASIC and FPGA.
In addition to our own competence, we have an extensive contact network of research and development experts in different technology areas. We also co-operate closely with the research community in areas that support us and our customers. Our experience is particularly strong in communication networks and devices.
References
Partner of global technology leaders
Successful projects are a solid base for our work. We have done challenging projects with many customers in the telecom and mobile areas. Among our customers we have an outstanding track record and reputation
Our customers are technology providers in the communication industry. They are global technology leaders and they require flexibility, reliability and total commitment from their R&D partners.
Our experience is particularly strong in the area of communication networks and devices.
- HSPA hardware accelerator
- STA and timing closure
- Formal verification
- DFT
- Power management
- System level verification
- Prototyping
- Structured ASIC
- Rapid prototyping platforms
- Custom FPGA boards
- Video codec design
- LTE hardware accelerator
- STA and timing closure
- DFT
- Vendor IP modules handling
- Multi core processor
- System level verification
- HW-design
- Board level simulations
- Base station system level verification
- OBSAI interface module design
- System Design:
- RFC
- HW/SW architecture
- L2/L3 level specification
- ASIC and FPGA design
- L2/L3
- Protocol stack handling
- Ethernet
- IPvX
- Flow control
- Traffic management
- Traffic classification
- Hierarchical policing and shaping
- Interfaces
- POS-PHY, IX-bus
- SerDes
- DDR, QDR, RLDRAM, FCRAM
- PCI and PCI-E
- Prototyping with custom FPGA boards
- Synthesis
- STA and timing closure
- Formal verification
It is important that the implementation team is able to understand the system architecture and the motivation behind the decisions made elsewhere.
Uninord Oy
Teknologiantie 1
FIN-90590 OULU
info(at)uninord.fi
tel: +358 50 517 7140
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Jarmo Niskanen
Managing Director
ASIC and FPGA service sales
tel: +358 40 730 8491
Ville Veijalainen
CTO
ASIC and FPGA service sales
tel: +358 40 751 8126