ASIC/FPGA Design Services

From RTL coding to SOC integration — SSN delivers synthesis-ready, verification-friendly hardware designs.

SSN’s design practice complements our verification depth. Our RTL engineers are trained to write ‘verification-friendly’ code from day one — observable, controllable, and structurally clean — which directly reduces verification effort and schedule.

Design Capabilities

IP Development — RTL design of interface controllers, datapath engines, DMA units, and peripheral blocks from specification.

IP Integration — Clean SOC integration of internally developed and third-party IP blocks, including clock domain crossing (CDC) analysis and reset domain management.

FPGA Prototyping — FPGA bring-up of ASIC designs on Xilinx UltraScale+ and Intel Agilex platforms to validate functionality before tape-out.

Timing Closure Support — SDC constraint creation, timing exception analysis, and synthesis/P&R collateral generation.

Synthesizable RTL — All designs target synthesis with Synopsys Design Compiler / Cadence Genus, producing clean lint and CDC reports.

Language & Abstraction Expertise

Language	Application
SystemVerilog (RTL)	Primary RTL language — synthesizable subset, interface-based design, assertion integration.
Verilog	Legacy design maintenance, protocol controller RTL.
VHDL	Available for projects requiring VHDL delivery, particularly in defense/aerospace adjacent work.
SystemC / TLM-2.0	Transaction-level modeling for early architecture exploration and virtual prototyping.
HLS (High-Level Synthesis)	Catapult C / Vivado HLS for algorithmic acceleration blocks.

Design Protocols

SSN design engineers have delivered RTL for the following protocol interfaces:

PCIe Gen1–Gen4 Root Complex and Endpoint controllers.
Ethernet MAC (1G/10G/25G/100G) with IEEE 802.3 compliance.
AMBA AXI4 masters and slaves, AXI interconnects, and AXI-to-APB bridges.
JESD204B/C high-speed converter interfaces.
USB 3.1 device controllers.
CPRI/eCPRI framers for 5G fronthaul ASICs.