Hardware Development

We in the team Hardware Development focus on the planning, development and production of hardware components.

This mainly concerns the in-house development of highly integrated system-on-chip solutions, which may include proprietary integrated circuits (ICs) with industrially available semiconductor processes or commercially available programmable circuits such as FPGAs and microcontrollers. As a link to component development, the development of circuit boards (PCBs) is also one of our topics.

Andre Zambanini

Tel: +49 2461 61-3236

a.zambanini@fz-juelich.de

Conception and development of

customized integrated circuits
solutions based on FPGAs
highly integrated and configureable systems
circuit boards for the integration of components

Our methods

	Analog chip development Individual circuit development in industrially available CMOS processes High frequency circuits including modeling in MATLAB Simulation of circuit design and top-level verification Development of verification concepts of analog circuit blocks
	Digital chip development Description of digital logic with HDL languages (VHDL, Verilog) Development of complex signal processing paths with MATLAB Synthesis and physical implementation included Use of virtual prototypes and sign-off verification to increase production success
	FPGA and system on chip solutions Integration of commercially available system-on-chip components into complex systems Development and implementation of firmware based on VHDL descriptions Verification by PC-based simulations and evaluation setups in the laboratory
	Hardware design CAD board layout (PCB) as a link for integrated system solutions Use of state-of-the-art technologies such as Flex PCBs, fine-line HDI and impedance-controlled PCBs

Cadence Academic Network Activities

The academic network was launched in 2007 by Cadence® Europe. The aim was to promote the proliferation of leading-edge technologies and methodologies at univer- sities renowned for their engineering and design excellence. A knowledge network among selected European universities, research institutes, industry advisors and Cadence was established to facilitate the sharing of technology expertise in the areas of verification, design and implementation of microelectronic systems. The Central Institute of Engineering, Electronics and Analytics ZEA-2: Electronic Systems is a member since 2013.

We use Cadence software for research:

Our main research topics are design and verification of System-on-aChip (SoC) solutions for the various research applications of the Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH. For all these topics we rely on Cadence Virtuoso®, Spectre® (RF), Incisive® Unified Simulator (IUS) and Encounter® Digital Implementation System (EDI).