Altera Partner Profile: Nuvation
Overview
Nuvation is a leading electronic design services firm specializing in intellectual property (IP) core development and integration services, board design, signal integrity analysis, firmware, and embedded software design. Nuvation cores are available as source code or netlist formats. No-cost OpenCore® versions are available for evaluation.
In addition to being an Altera Megafunction Partners Program (AMPPSM ) partner, Nuvation is also partnered with Altera as a Certified Design Center (CDC). The company offers IP cores and engineering services for a range of industries that include communications, security/defense, consumer electronics, and medical devices. Clients include Altera, Lucent, JDS Uniphase, Trimble Navigation, and Infineon.
Nuvation specializes in:
- High-speed digital, analog, and mixed-signal applications
- Optical and wireless communications
- Imaging, audio and video, and encryption applications
Integration support is available directly from Nuvation senior engineers.
Available Products
Nuvation currently provides the products shown in Table 1.
Additional Services & Features
Nuvation provides the following additional services and features:
- Custom IP architecture, design, and development
- Turnkey board design services
- Signal integrity analysis for high-speed and high-density printed circuit boards (PCBs)
- Firmware and embedded software development
- Altera® FPGA design: custom logic, IP licensing, integration, and HardCopy® design optimization
- High-complexity designs in Stratix® and Stratix II devices, including communications, security, video, and imaging
- Stratix GX and Stratix II GX 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
- Digital signal processing (DSP) algorithm development and acceleration including MATLAB/Simulink and DSP Builder tools, up to 500 MSPSx12bit
- Low-cost designs with MAX® II and Cyclone® II devices for handhelds, set top boxes, telematics, and industrial control
- Precision analog board design, to 7 femtosec peak-to-peak jitter at 104 MHz
- RF design including FM subcarrier, ZigBee, ultrasound, GPS, 802.11, cellular basestation, terrestrial, and space microwave
- High-speed digital to 10-GHz circuit speeds, double data rate (DDR)/quad data rate (QDR), PCI-X, PCIe, serial RapidIOTM (SRIO), Infiniband, FC, 10GE, SPI-4.2, SONET
- Custom power supply design
- Microprocessor firmware and RTOS including VxWorks and µCLinux
- FPGA and digital signal processor designs for broadcast video, high-performance computing, scientific, medical, and defense applications
- XP/XPe-Linux-MacOS device drivers, delay-locked loops (DLLs), application program interfaces (APIs)
Contact Information
For additional information, contact Nuvation at:
Nuvation (Headquarters)
3590 North First Street
San Jose, CA 95134
Tel: (408) 228-5580
Fax: (408) 228-5590
Email: ipcores@nuvation.com
URL: www.nuvation.com
Nuvation, Waterloo Design Center (WDC)
470 Weber Street N. Ste. 201
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 6J2
Tel: (519) 746-2304
Fax: (519) 746-2939
Email: canada_info@nuvation.com
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