As the need for sensors and encoders grows exponentially, all the value chain must also evolve in order to maintain coherence and economic sense. For a customer active in the industry market, IC’Alps provided a multicore ASIC able to interface with a great variety of sensors and encoders.
To design and implement the digital partition of a multicore mixed-signal ASIC with multiple sensor interfaces.
The project started with a specification phase to define the required configuration for CPU and standard peripherals, memory strategy, custom peripheral characteristics and industrial test strategy (scan, Memory Built-In Self Test [MBIST], eFlash…).
MCU sub-system was then built step by step targeting both ASIC technology – with preliminary synthesis and place-and-route runs to check PPA performance – and FPGA technology for Customer validation on a dedicated breadboard embedding targeted sensors to check system performance.
UVM testbench was built by IC’Alps to check MCU assembly and main functions.