RTL Design

Cientra has extensive and in-depth demonstratable expertise in several facets of the RTL / SoC design in the areas of networking, processor, multimedia, mobile, and automotive sectors.

Our specialists with decades of hands-on experience, an internally developed IP portfolio, and detailed exposure to TFM (Tools, flows, and methodologies) across the industry, enable our customers to a faster and more predictable time to market (TTM) and quality deliverables. The in-house processes which are in line with most of the industry standard practices, make Cientra one of the unique providers of RTL design solutions provider for the semiconductor industry.

Our RTL design team has done and is capable of putting together system requirements, architecture definition, micro-architecture spec, RTL design, and sanity test, various tool collateral creations, design checks and compliance using industry-standard tools and handing over the collaterals to the various stakeholders in Verification, DFT and Physical implementation teams. The capability is not only restricted to IP design but also extends to subsystem or SoC design and integration. Cientra team having worked with multiple Tier 1 customers, has great exposure to many complex projects and flows in UPF creation, static checks, design for PPA and trade-offs, DFT and DFV requirements.

OUR specialized RTL DESIGN EXPERTISE

• IP/SoC Design and Netlist delivery
• Front-end design of complex multi-clock, power domain blocks, and low-power designs
• RTL Signoff checks like Lint/, CDC (Clock domain crossing), FEC (Formal Equivalence Checks),  Synthesis (logical/physical aware)
• Knowledge of Verification Methodologies to actively participate in Debug Analysis
• Knowledge of Synthesis, static timing analysis, and physical design flows
• Microarchitecture development (block specifications, development plan, and architecture from the top-level digital features/functionality of the chip)
• Proficient in any of the category IPs and SoCs :
  • Slow peripheral like I2C, UART, SPI, SM Bus, PM Bus
  • Fast Peripherals like PCIe, Ethernet, USB, etc
  • Infrastructure components in GPIO, Bus Bridges, SoC interconnect, Subsystem / SoC bus architectures, AMBA Bus Interfaces like APB, AHB, AXI
  • CPU Design – RISC-V, Power PC, ARM CPUs, Cache Controllers, MMU, IO-Coherency, Fast ALUs, MACs
  • DSP IPs like FFT, FM ModulatorClock, and Reset generators for SoC / Subsystems
• Power optimizations and standards
• SoC integration