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In order to be successful with an on-site engineering contracts the main thing we need to understand is what are the exact job requirements and responsibilities for the on site contract engineers?  We know this sounds basic, but based on many engagements on-site this is one problem that slows the process down at critical design stages. We  help facilitate precise contract requirements including priority of particular skills and percentage of job skills that will be used on a project by offering to consult with client hiring managers at no cost. We then actually write the contract job requirements ourselves that then get approved by the client hiring managers. We also offer options the hiring managers may not realize are available to them. For example in some cases we can do a contract to a permanent position within the client company assuming everyone involved wants to move in that direction. We can provide 1 up a small team of 10 people to help with your hardware design projects. As a review, our focus is for providing contract resources in the fields of our hardware expertise. Typically, we don’t provide resources in the software design area like Oracle, Peoplesoft, SAP and the like. The only exception is that for writing software for the tools our hardware design engineers would use.                                               
List of IC Design related Services we provide
  • Existing logic to “Synthesizable RTL” with cycle accuracy.
  • RTL Logic Design from modules to full chip for many applications
  • Formal IC Verification of modules or full chip.
  • RTL or gate level verification of module or full chip
  • Full System Level Simulation.
  • IC Rapid Prototyping using FPGA based approach.
  • Post RTL IC validation projects. See short project overview below.
  • IC Floor Planning and P&R with Synopsys and Cadence
  • IC Physical Verification using Calibre, Hercules, Dracula
IC Chip Engineering Inc Virtual Outsourcing provides IC design capability that leverages either the established design infrastructure of the customer or that of IC Chip Engineering Inc and leverages the development and project management expertise of IC Chip Engineering Inc. You provide your well-established design flow and set of methodologies to a number of IC Chip Engineering Inc experts who in turn enable a larger team of IC Chip Engineering Inc designers able to develop and deliver on new designs.
Outsourcing allows you to tap into a group of experienced engineers, already proficient in your design environment, as your needs grow. The IC Chip Engineering Inc design team can flex in size or skills as your requirements change over time, without the customer losing access to the knowledge base or expertise the team provides.
The Outsourcing model enables the customer design flow to fully realize all of the continuous improvements made by all of the IC Chip Engineering Inc designers on your project.
IC Chip Engineering Inc' expertise has already:
  • Provided floorplanning and flow expertise to an ASIC Vendor's back-end organization for the entire North American market
  • Completed the place and route of multiple designs using the established design flow by dynamically working through hurdles imposed by that same design flow
  • Evolved the back-end flow of major ASIC Vendors
  • Performed functional verification of multi-ASIC systems
  • Provided synthesis and timing analysis expertise for porting a design from 350 nm to 20 nm
IC Chip Engineering Inc' design capability can provide:
  • Design Specification
  • Floorplanning
  • RTL Development
  • Place and Route
  • Logical Synthesis
  • Layout Verification
  • Timing Analysis
  • Interconnect Extraction
  • Logical Verification