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Experts at Broadband Access Applications & IP Core Integration Services
Thank you for visiting the BLT Broadband Access Applications IP Core Integration Services page.
Founded in 1985 by one of the original Xilinx Field Application Engineers,
the continuing mission of Bottom Line Technologies Inc (BLT) is to offer our Clients
premium quality design services on aggressive schedules at an competitive price.
We invite you to learn about our company and
our philosophies to see who we are and how we get the job done. We also suggest that you
visit our Broadband Access Applications and
IP Core Integration Services pages for more specific information.
Because of our beginnings, BLT’s proud reputation as “The Xilinx Experts” often precedes us. However, due to the changing expectations and needs of our clients, over the years we’ve grown beyond our Xilinx roots combining the latest technologies with specialization in a variety of services to offer our clients the most reliable, expedient and economical path to market.
The Bottom Line approach is one of quality by Project Management, Design Methodology, and Project Staffing. Our mature, time proven methodologies ensure you start and finish your designs the right way, on time, and on budget. By helping our Clients avoid dozens of common mistakes, we frequently shave days, weeks or months off their schedules.
BLT also satisfies a multitude of non-technical needs of our Clients effectively allow BLT to perform as an extension of our Client's organization.
The "bottom line" is that the goals of our Clients and BLT are best achieved when designs are done well, promptly and cost effectively. Our greatest pride is our broad base of referrals and repeat clients. They illustrate that we really do offer the least expensive, lowest risk and fastest design capabilities available. We look forward to working with you.
Please Contact us for more information.
Successful integration of IP cores represents a significant, and often overlooked, challenge to the design engineer.
System-On-a-Chip design is much more than high-level integration of IP cores such as microprocessors, memory and peripherals.
"System expertise" and "System know-how" are required to optimize a single-chip implementation.
Target Device Technology Issues
- Most cores are generic HDL
- Most cores do not take advantage of the target technology
- Most core specs can not, and do not try to represent the performance of the IP in configurable devices
where interconnect delay and clock distribution must be carefully managed.
IP Core Modifications
- Core modifications are often at the root of designs gone awry.
- Modifying a core often seems less risky than ground up designs but designers put themselves at the
mercy of the core vendor and typically do not budget enough time for what seems to be a "simple effort."
IP Core Interfacing and Interaction
- The IP core's interaction with surounding logic is key to sucess
- It is harder than one might expect to connect IPs that have different interfaces
- Meticulous attention to clock archetectures from IP to IP and from IP to custom logic is critical and must take target device archetecture into consideration
- IP specs are complex and often include ambiguities
- The task of integrating blocks is even harder when incorporating external IP blocks that come
from other companies, because there is no local expert that understands exactly what goes on in the IP.
Verification
Verification plans need to deal with limited visability into the functionality of the core.
Bottom Line: Verifying SoC designs is still tough!
Realistic Scheduling
- IP reuse in itself does not necessarily lead to shorter design periods. Even where designers are experienced,
is not at all uncommon for schedules to GROW due to IP core integration issues.
- The allure of "plugging the blocks together" is sometimes so great that schedules can be unrealistically short.
The vast experience of Bottom Line Technologies enables us to address all these issues and when combined with our
propriatiary internal checklist, the path to silicon sucess is as predictable as possible.
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