Front-end to signoff. Take a project turnkey, augment an in-house team, or engage stage by stage. Onsite in Korea. Offsite globally.
We take a design from feasibility through synthesized netlist. Micro-architecture, RTL development in Verilog and SystemVerilog, structural quality (lint, CDC), and STA-clean synthesis. Where the design demands it, we write, refactor, and integrate IP RTL directly against the target flow.
Typical scope: feasibility studies and micro-architecture, RTL coding, code quality (lint, CDC, RDC), synthesis (Design Compiler / RC Compiler class flows), formal equivalence check, static timing analysis and closure, low-power intent (UPF/CPF), block and top-level integration.
UVM test-plan and environment development, IP through full-SoC. Coverage-driven, directed and random. VIP-based bring-up and integration. We work at the workload level, not just block-level toy tests, so the bugs that hide behind sensor fusion, NPU workloads, and multicore contention actually surface before tapeout.
Where verification is the bottleneck, we deploy the Silverchips DV CLI: agentic AI models plus our in-house IP and VIP library, wrapped in a single command-line tool. It generates UVM testbenches from a YAML spec and runs the entire verification pipeline in one invocation.
Feed the CLI a YAML spec describing your SoC. Point it at the Silverchips VIP library. It selects the right VIPs, wires the interfaces, generates the UVM environment, and writes out a complete testbench ready to compile. Your engineers review, extend, and go.
From a single verify invocation, the CLI runs every verification stage in sequence: RTL simulation, pin-level board simulation, post-synthesis gate-level simulation, post-PnR gate-level simulation, and final board simulation with GDS-extracted parasitics annotated. Each stage produces its own report. The pipeline stops on first failure, or completes with a signoff summary.
Top and block-level implementation. Floorplan, clock tree synthesis, place and route, and timing closure. Physical verification (DRC, LVS, DFM). IR-drop, EM, and SI analysis carried through to signoff. We work across mature and advanced nodes with the customer's target flow.
The Silverchips PnR CLI wraps our agentic models around the physical design flow. It runs stage-to-stage automation from synthesis through GDSII, generates per-substage reports, and annotates corner analysis (thermal, SI, EM) back into gate-level simulation. Smart ECO logic reduces PnR spin count. Equivalence check and GLS are part of the same pipeline, not a separate ritual.
One command runs synthesis, floorplan, CTS, PnR, physical verification, and signoff. Each stage produces its own report card. The CLI's agentic models predict congestion, guide ECO decisions, and shorten timing convergence loops.
Corner analysis (thermal, SI, EM) is not a final-stage bolt-on. The PnR CLI annotates parasitics and corner effects back into gate-level simulation so the design team sees the impact where it happens. Smart ECO logic proposes and validates targeted netlist edits, cutting iteration count without opening a full new PnR cycle.
FPGA porting of IP and full systems. FPGA-specific optimization and debug. Prototyping and pre-silicon software bring-up. Emulation platform integration, transactor development, and system-level debug. We work across the major FPGA and emulation platforms in current use.
Monolithic SoCs are running out of headroom. Chiplet partitioning is how modern designs scale past reticle limits, mix process nodes, and reuse silicon IP. Silverchips supports the full chiplet flow: partitioning strategy, interposer and package co-design, die-to-die interface integration, and system-level verification across the die boundary.
Our chiplet interface VIP library covers the standard die-to-die protocols. Our full-SoC testbenches extend cleanly across chiplet boundaries so multi-die verification runs the same way single-die verification does. When you need a compute die, an I/O die, and a memory die talking to each other before silicon comes back, the flow is already built.
Architecture, verification, physical design, chiplets, signoff. Bring us the idea, we bring the team, the flow, and the CLI.