FPGA Board Design Services

FPGA Board Design for Diverse applications

A wide spectrum of FPGA solutions has been developed over the decades to cater to various domain specific functional, performance, cost and environmental requirements.

• System-on-Chip (SoC) designs.
• Implementation of complete Protocol Standards and Algorithms.
• Solutions for Control and Monitoring Sub-systems, High-speed Data Acquisition, Video and Image Processing, Digital Signal Processing.
• High-speed Network Interface Solutions – Packet Processing, Wire Speed Switching, Protocol Conversion.
• Performance Accelerators.
• Companion FPGAs for ASSP devices.
• Processor Interface Designs – Peripheral Interfaces (Memories / Network Interfaces), Bus Translators and Converters, Glue Logic.
• High-speed Solutions for Back-plane, Board-to-Board and Mezzanine Board Interfaces.
• ASIC Prototyping Support: ASIC RTL development and verification in FPGA.
• Intellectual Property (IP) development: Custom Design Solutions.
• Conversion from ASIC to FPGA (for end-of-life ASSPs).

FPGA Board Design with High Integration FPGA Solutions

Argus Systems FPGA teams are very conversant with implementing complete SoC solutions in the latest Intel (Altera) , AMD (Xilinx), Lattice, Microchip ( Microsemi ) FPGA devices to realize size, cost, power and performance benefits in the end products.

• SoC with single and multiple soft cores (Nios, Microblaze, ARM, LatticMico32, CoreRISCV_AXI4 , Mi-V).
• Peripheral interfaces: DDR2/3/4/5, Flash, EEPROM, PCIe Gen2/3/4, PCI, SpaceWire, SPI, I2C, 1-Wire, RS232, USB, Ethernet, Storage, Display, FireFly.
• Audio / Image / Video Processing.
• Algorithm Implementation – JPEG, Data Compression, Pattern Recognition.
• Digital Signal Processing in Data Acquisition and Industrial Control applications.
• Packet Processing, Wire Speed Switching (1G/ 10G).
• High-speed interfaces (1G / 2.5G / 10G) with flow control between FPGA and various Framers, PHYs and Transceivers.
• Development of Custom Cores and integration of Third-Party Cores.

Comprehensive FPGA Board Development expertise

• Argus Systems FPGA team has extensive expertise in handling the entire FPGA development life cycle in a thorough, capable and reliable manner.
• Requirements are finalized through in-depth requirements gathering, customer consultation and review. FPGA architecture design is done in a comprehensive manner with due consideration to all the functional, performance, cost, power, testability requirements.
• Efficient and well documented HDL code is written in VHDL / Verilog. Comprehensive Test Benches are developed using System Verilog / VHDL / Verilog and Script based automation done using TCL.
• Functional Verification is done using standard verification tools such as ModelSim, QuestaSim, HDL Designer, Vivado Simulator, etc. Argus team is well versed in verification using OSVVM.
• Pin out, Place and Route, Optimization for Area / Resources / Timing/ Power and exhaustive Timing Verification are performed using standard timing analysis tools and reports. FPGA Design Validation is done by performing thorough validation testing on hardware platform.
• Well established and proven design methodologies and review processes at every stage of project life cycle ensure quality of the outputs.

Full range of FPGA Devices and FPGA Development Tools

• FPGA Devices: Experience in working with full range of devices from major FPGA manufacturers:
• AMD / Xilinx: Zynq, Virtex 7, Artix 7, Kintex 7, Spartan 7, Spartan 6 UltraScale, UltraScale+, Versal ACAP.
• Intel / Altera: Arria, Stratix, Agilex, Cyclone, MAX, eASIC.
• Lattice: Certus, ECP5, LatticeECP, Mach, CrossLink, iCE40.
• Microchip / Microsemi: - PolarFire, RT PolarFire, PolarFire SoC, IGLOO2, ProASIC, SmartFusion, Mi-V RISC-V.
• FPGA Development and Simulation Tools:
• AMD (Xilinx ): Vivado ML Edition, Vivado HLS, Vitis.
• Intel ( Altera ): Quartus Prime Pro / Quartus Prime Standard.
• Lattice: Diamond.
• Microchip ( Microsemi ) : Libero.
• Siemens EDA / Mentor: ModelSim, QuestaSim, HDL Designer.