CDC Partner Profile: Nuvation
Contact Information
3590 North First Street
San Jose, CA 95134 USA
470 Weber Street N, Ste 201
Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 6J2 Canada
Tel: +1 (408) 228-5580
Fax: +1 (408) 228-5590
Request information/contact from partner
Email: sales@nuvation.com / ipcores@nuvation.com
URL: http://www.nuvation.com
Overview
Nuvation provides electronics design services to leading technology organizations globally and is extremely knowledgeable about Altera® devices, intellectual property (IP), and related tools. Design skills include:
- FPGA design, IP licensing, and integration
- RF/analog/digital/power board design
- Signal integrity analysis
- MCU firmware
- Digital signal processing (DSP) algorithm development and optimization
- PC drivers/application program interfaces (APIs)
Nuvation is widely recognized for their advanced technical skills, sound engineering methodologies, and schedule acceleration capabilities. Nuvation can provide turnkey embedded system design from your requirements specification to production, including management of industrial and mechanical design and transition to your EMS provider.
Expertise and Experience
Nuvation offers a wide range of technical expertise, including:
- Altera FPGA design: custom logic, IP licensing, integration, HardCopy® ASIC design optimization
- High-complexity designs in Stratix® series FPGAs, including communications, security, video, and imaging
- Stratix GX series designs, including signal integrity analysis, layout, materials selection, stackups, and fab vendor qualification
- Nios® II embedded processor designs, including SOPC Builder tools and µC Linux drivers
- DSP algorithm development and acceleration, including MATLAB/Simulink and DSP Builder tools, up to 500MSPSx12bit
- Low-cost designs with MAX® II CPLDs and Cyclone® II FPGAs for handhelds, set-top boxes, telematics, and industrial control
- Precision analog board design, to seven femtosec peak-to-peak jitter at 104 MHz
- RF design, including FM subcarrier, ZigBee, ultrasound, GPS, 802.11, cellular basestation, and terrestrial and space microwave
- High-speed digital to 10-GHz circuit speeds, DDR/QDR, PCI-X, PCIe, SRIO, InfiniBand, FC, 10GE, SPI-4.2, SONET
- Custom power supply design
- Microprocessor firmware and RTOS, including VxWorks and µCLinux
- FPGA-DSP coprocessing designs for broadcast video, high-performance computing, scientific, medical, and defense applications
- XP/XPe-Linux-MacOS device drivers, delay-locked loops (DLLs), and APIs
Nuvation is also an Altera Megafunction Partner Program (AMPPSM) partner. To see Nuvation's IP portfolio and expertise, refer to the Nuvation partner profile page.
Locations and Expertise
| Table 1. Locations and Expertise |
| Locations |
Description |
San Jose, CA (USA)
Waterloo, Ontario (Canada) |
Design |
| San Jose, CA (USA) |
Sales |
| Technology Expertise |
Description |
| DSP |
Finite impulse response (FIR), fast Fourier transform (FFT), Viterbi, scalers, TI EMIF, TI VLYNQ, ADI LinkPort, coder/decoders (CODECs), video analytics, coprocessing |
| High-Speed Interfaces |
InfiniBand, SRIO, SATA, FC, XAUI/10GbE, PCIe x1/2/4/8/16, circuit speeds up to 10 GHz |
| Other Technology Experience |
Processors and peripherals, video and imaging processing, buses and interfaces, Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet, SONET/SDH |
| Services |
Description |
| Hardware Design |
80+ custom hardware designs in the past 18 months; 2 to 34 layer boards, most with CPLDs or FPGAs |
| Software Design |
60+ custom embedded software designs in the past 18 months; assembly/C, RTOS, drivers, up to the API layer |
| Intellectual Property (IP) Cores |
ATA-4, ATA-5, SATA, GFP-F, GFP-T, GEOS 2+2, GEOS-10 |
| Signal Integrity |
Allegro-SI, HSPICE, ADS Field Solver, PSPICE-A/D, Eagleware/Pre- and Post-layout SI |
| Other Services |
PCB layout, prototyping, low-volume production, high-volume production |
| Market Expertise |
Description |
| Broadcast |
High-definition (HD) video broadcast designs, platform and FPGA coding, HD video scaler, HDTV IP core |
| Consumer |
MP3, pro-audio boards, set-top boxes, residential gateways, xDSL modems, handheld GPS, home theater A/V, network power bar, HD video storage, video surveillance systems, custom storage, fitness equipment, slot machines, safe table saw, video gaming system development platforms, 802.11/Zigbee peripherals |
| Other Market Experience |
Aerospace, automotive, wireline/wireless communications, computing, consumer, industrial, medical, military, storage, test, and measurement |
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