digital Design

Whether at the gate level for digital circuitry within an ASIC supporting analogue functions such as ADCs, in CPLDs or FPGAs, or microcontrollers with software in C or assembler, Key Design can provide all the necessary digital and microcontroller support functions for electronic product development.

Where digital circuitry is designed at the gate level within an analogue ASIC the whole system can be simulated down to the transistor level, rather than at a behavioural level.

Digital logic can be designed with development partners and tested in a CPLD for future incorporation into an ASIC where required, greatly increasing the chances of a "right first time" mixed signal ASIC solution.

Microcontrollers can range from micropower, low pin-count devices to 40MIPS RISC devices including the Cypress PSoC devices for a complete analogue/digital solution on a single chip.

IC Design Analogue Design
RF Design Digital Design
Opto Electronics

expertise

CPLD for digitising images from infra-red camera
Gray code encoder for flash analogue to digital converter (ADC)
CPLD and FPGA designs for Lattice, Xilinx and Altera
digitising and serializing of audio signals
de-multiplexing of digital 3D camera images
SPI based pulse generator
laser rangefinder pulse averaging

examples

Technology

microcontroller
C
assembler
Verilog HDL
PIC
RISC
40 MIPS
micropower
Cypress PSoC "System on a Chip"