FPGA, Analog, and Board Design - Verien Design Group Hardware Engineering Services

FPGA Design Services

Verien is a small design services company which provides FPGA, analog, and board design services to a wide variety of clients. Verien's two FPGA engineers, Dave Matthews and Ben Klass, have a combined over 45 years of experience in the field and with FPGAs from the three major vendors: Xilinx, Altera, and Actel. The following describes some of Verien's FPGA design service offerings; please visit the Xilinx, Altera, and Actel pages for FPGA vendor-specific information regarding these services.

FPGA Design Services

FPGA Designs - Verien can start with your specification or work with you to define your FPGA. Our proven verification methodology will ensure success in a timely fashion.
High Performance Designs - With direct design experience at clock rates of 100, 133, 160 and 200 MHz, we know how to achieve timing closure for your design. See our high performance design notes here.
Cost Sensitive Designs - We've designed cost-sensitive consumer level products, products that have shipped over 100,000 units, and products that have shipped in the 100's. There are applications where pennies count, and applications where a higher cost allocated for future expansion is prudent.
Communications and Networking Designs - Verien has experience in digital audio networking equipment (S/PDIF or AES/EBU (AES3), AES10 (MADI)) operating at 125 Mbits/sec, proprietary links operating at 500 Mbits/sec over copper with hardware data link layer, and 1.2 Gbits/sec links over fibre, Controller Area Network (CAN), I²C, as well as high performance VoIP processing solutions. Verien also designed the board-level physical interfaces for most of these products.
DSP Designs - Verien has designed many image processing systems including digital and infrared cameras, CAT scan and ultrasound processing chips, and other DSP-oriented applications. DSP designs can be either Matlab/Simulink with System Generator or HDL based methodologies.
Embedded Designs - We have embedded systems experience using a number of processor and DSP solutions: PowerPC (including Virtex-5 embedded PowerPC440), Microblaze, MIPS, TI TMS54x, TMS64x, ADSP21XX, SHARC, AMD Geode, 68K, x86, and the Picoblaze FPGA embedded microcontroller.

Analog Design Services

For a description of our analog design services, please see our analog services page.

Board Design Services

Board-Level Design Services - Verien has provided board-level designs for products ranging from 30 components to 1000 components. Past examples include mixed signal designs with isolated power and ground schemes, gigabit high-speed differential pairs, A/D and D/A converters, power supplies, and with many other design specifics.
Turnkey Board Services - In addition to board-level design services, Verien can provide layout, fabrication, component procurement, assembly using partner services, and debug in our lab.

Other Design Services

Additional services include ASIC to FPGA, and FPGA to FPGA retargetting, custom IP development, and on-site design reviews.

Example Applications

The following is a brief summary of some of Verien's designs organized as applications:

DSP designs using MATLAB or conversion from C source

Embedded processor designs including PowerPC, Virtex-5 embedded PowerPC440, Microblaze, Intel, ARM7, ARM9, AMD, TI or ADI DSP, Picoblaze

Custom communication designs at 125 Mbps to 1.2 Gbps with hardware data link layer

Image acquisition, and video and image processing

Mixed signal Data Acquisition Systems

PCI Express (COM Express)

Infrared, CCD and CMOS camera design

Motion control systems

Controller Area Network (CAN), I²C, SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface)

Digital Audio (MADI, S/PDIF)

Please contact us for more info.