RTL & micro-architecture
Requirements through to synthesisable RTL, with architecture reviews, coding standards and a clean boundary handed to verification.
Silicon design & verification
VLSI Engineering
We join chip teams and take defined ownership — a block, a flow, or a closure milestone — with the reports to prove where it stands each week.
Scope of work
What we take on
Nine areas across the flow. Engagements can combine the disciplines that match your block, flow or closure milestone.
Functional verification
SystemVerilog and UVM environments built to scale: constrained-random stimulus, assertions, functional coverage and tracked closure.
Formal, CDC & RDC
Property-based proofs for control logic, plus clock and reset domain crossing analysis before integration hides the problem.
Physical design
Floorplanning through placement, routing and optimisation, with QoR tracked against the targets agreed at the start.
Timing closure
Constraint authoring, static timing analysis, path debug and the iteration work that gets a block to a signoff-ready state.
DFT & testability
Scan insertion, ATPG, compression and BIST planning aligned to the coverage your production test actually requires.
FPGA & emulation
Prototype platforms that let software start before silicon, and that reproduce the failures simulation is too slow to reach.
Post-silicon validation
Structured debug on first silicon: characterisation, interface checks and traceable results your team can act on.
Analog & custom layout
Mixed-signal and custom layout support, run with the same review and signoff discipline as the digital work.
How a VLSI engagement runs
01
Block definition
Ownership boundary, interfaces, constraints and an explicit definition of done, agreed in writing before work starts.
02
Flow setup
Tools, libraries, scripts and version control aligned with your environment so the first commit is usable, not a rework.
03
Execution & review
A standing weekly review carrying coverage, timing or QoR evidence — progress is shown, not asserted.
04
Closure & handback
Scripts, reports and documentation transferred in a state your engineers can re-run without us in the room.
Deliverables
What you receive
Every engagement ends with artefacts your team owns. Nothing important lives only in our heads or on our machines.
- Reviewed RTL with lint and coding-standard signoff
- UVM testbench, coverage model and regression results
- Constraint files with every exception documented
- Timing, QoR and physical verification reports per milestone
- Scripts and flow documentation in your version control
- Concise weekly status with evidence, risks and next actions
Need VLSI engineering support?
Send us the block, the flow stage or the milestone you are trying to close and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.