SureCore, the leading ultra-low-power memory specialist, has launched a comprehensive suite of silicon services, to help customers developing cutting-edge applications address complex design requirements. Leveraging its extensive experience in low-power and low-voltage design, the sureCore team can provide expert engineering support across every facet of SoC and IP design and characterisation.

Paul Wells, CEO at sureCore, comments:

“Our silicon services offer a one stop shop for customers – from architecture and design implementation to verification, characterisation and test chip evaluation. The main focus is on increasing power-efficiency, enhancing performance and accelerating time-to-market. We understand the unique power challenges that come with advanced nodes. Our experienced engineers use novel power optimisation techniques, as well as a wide-range of verification and characterisation methodologies, to deliver power and area efficient designs which are crucial for the new era of smart wearables, IoT and AI devices.”

With advanced nodes there can be issues with design marginality, leakage reduction, thermal management and signal integrity. By integrating low-power methodologies throughout the design, verification and characterisation stages, it is possible to address these whilst still achieving challenging schedules.

Wells adds:

“With our specialist expertise in low-power design and broad experience across a full range of process nodes, we enable our customers across the globe to bring highly efficient next generation devices to market faster – driving forward innovation while reducing power footprints and operational costs.”

The sureCore silicon services cover four key areas:

Analogue/Mixed Signal Design Service
The Analogue/Mixed-Signal Design Service has a strong emphasis on low-power design to meet the demands of modern, energy-efficient applications. The sureCore team specialise in creating power-optimised solutions for a wide range of products, including IoT, Edge-AI, wearable and medical devices, as well as sensor interfaces – where minimising energy consumption is critical. Low voltage design has become the defacto solution to address power concerns necessitating in depth marginality analysis. Expertise spans low-power data converters (ADCs/DACs), phase-locked loops (PLLs), bandgaps and DC to DC converters.

Full Custom Transistor-Level Layout Service
The Full Custom Transistor-Level Layout Service provides highly optimised, performance-driven layout solutions tailored to meet the most demanding design specifications. With deep expertise in analogue, digital and mixed-signal design, sureCore delivers fully customised layouts that maximise area efficiency, minimise parasitic effects, and achieve superior power and performance metrics. The team has extensive experience in designing sensitive analogue blocks, such as amplifiers, data converters (ADCs/DACs), PLLs and power management circuits, where precise device matching, symmetry and shielding are critical.

Mixed-Signal Verification and Characterisation Service
The Mixed-Signal Verification and Characterisation Service ensures the functionality, performance and robustness of complex analogue-digital designs, accelerating time-to-market with high confidence in silicon success. Statistical analysis is undertaken to ensure design robustness across process, voltage and temperature extremes. In addition, timing analysis and automated liberty file generation can be undertaken where appropriate, facilitating ease of integration.

Test Chip Development and Evaluation Service
The Test Chip Development and Evaluation Service enables customers to validate new designs and IP blocks through comprehensive silicon prototyping. End-to-end support, from architecture definition to tape-out and post-silicon evaluation, ensures that critical design parameters are thoroughly tested before full-scale production. Expertise spans custom analogue, digital and mixed-signal IP blocks, including ADCs, DACs, PLLs, SerDes and power management circuits.

Chris Morrison, VP Product Marketing at Agile Analog, confirms:

“I have known sureCore for many years now. Their team has a unique set of skills and a proven track record of delivering power-efficient solutions. I would highly recommend them as experts in their field.”

About sureCore™

sureCore, the ultra-low power memory specialist, is the low-power innovator who empowers the IC design community to meet aggressive power budgets through a portfolio of ultra-low power memory design services and innovative products. sureCore’s low-power engineering methodologies and design flows meet the most exacting memory requirements with a comprehensive product and design services portfolio that create clear market differentiation for customers. The company’s low-power product line encompasses a range of close to near-threshold, silicon proven, process-independent SRAM IP.
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