Keysight Enables Advanced Pre-Tapeout Silicon Prototyping Using Digital Twin Signaling
May 10 2023 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
- Platform provides a unique real-time development environment
that reduces the risk, cost, and time associated with silicon chip
prototyping and verification
- Integration with Keysight’s complete library of full-speed
digital twin signals for full system verification in pre-tapeout
environment
- Supports development applications for 6G and other emerging
high-speed communication technologies
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) released a new
Universal Signal Processing Architecture (USPA) prototyping
platform, enabling semiconductor companies to conduct complete chip
prototyping and verification, pre-tapeout, in a real-time
development environment integrating digital twins of
fully-compliant, standards-based signals.
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The Keysight M8135A is a pre-configured
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The final step of the chip design process, known as the silicon
tapeout, is an increasingly expensive procedure that leaves little
room for design failure. If a design fails following the tapeout,
chip makers must start over again with a new “re-spin” that can
take 12 months or longer to complete. In addition to tying up
valuable research and development resources, these chip redesigns
can potentially cause the chip maker to miss a narrow
time-to-market window.
To reduce the risks of design failures and expensive re-spins,
the Keysight USPA platform provides chip designers and engineers
with complete digital twin signaling to verify designs before they
are committed to silicon. The USPA platform offers designers an
alternative to proprietary custom prototyping systems by
integrating ultrafast signal converters with a high performance,
completely modular field-programmable gate array (FPGA) prototyping
system.
The unique USPA prototyping platform offers the following
benefits:
- Supports the highest performance optoelectronic development
projects with digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and
analog-to-digital converter (ADC) interfaces that emulate signals
at full speed, up to 68 GS/s (ADC) and 72 GS/s (DAC).
- Provides a broad range of input / output interfaces that are
suitable for applications including 6G wireless development,
digital radio frequency memory, advanced physics research, and
high-speed data acquisition applications, such as radar and radio
astronomy.
- Offers flexibility with two configurations, including a
pre-configured system for single channel transceiver applications
and a fully configurable set of modular components that can be
combined to support a wide range of single and multi-channel
applications. In addition, the pre-configured system can be
expanded with additional components that leverage the modularity,
scalability, and cost-effective reusability of the platform
architecture.
Hong Jiang, CEO Avance Semi, Inc., said: “When we began
work on our first ASIC for the coherent fiber communication market,
we understood that we might only have one chance to get it right
and that a second tapeout would be both prohibitively expensive and
so time-consuming that we could miss our narrow time-to-market
window. With Keysight’s USPA platform and our system integration
effort, we can optimize and verify our design in real-time as it
progresses. This is like a ‘free soft tapeout’ we can run as many
times as needed. This approach saves development time and money
while dramatically increasing confidence in our design and product
release timeline.”
Dr. Joachim Peerlings, Vice President and General Manager of
Keysight’s Network and Data Center Solutions Group, said: “By
accelerating and de-risking chip development, Keysight USPA
delivers a new end-to-end solution that meets the challenges of
leading-edge designs in a very high-cost environment. This powerful
platform gives chip developers a digital twin of their future
silicon device, allowing them to fully validate their designs and
algorithms before incurring the expense and risk of a tapeout.”
Resources
- Keysight Universal Signal Processing Architecture Platform
- Video: USPA System Overview
About Keysight Technologies
At Keysight (NYSE: KEYS), we inspire and empower innovators to
bring world-changing technologies to life. As an S&P 500
company, we’re delivering market-leading design, emulation, and
test solutions to help engineers develop and deploy faster, with
less risk, throughout the entire product lifecycle. We’re a global
innovation partner enabling customers in communications, industrial
automation, aerospace and defense, automotive, semiconductor, and
general electronics markets to accelerate innovation to connect and
secure the world. Learn more at Keysight Newsroom and
www.keysight.com.
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