
Sensor interface for Mobile Phones
Provide edge processing and encryption in a mobile phone sensor interface IC, including the development of an FPGA prototype, meeting aggressive standby power requirements and developing custom analog blocks.
Features
32-bit processor with DSP extensions
Cryptographic accelerator hardware including AES,ECC,TRNG, SHA
AMBA peripherals include DMA, USB, I2C, SPI, timers
Embedded Flash memory
Low-power memory in switchable banks
Multiple power domains including low-leakage thick oxide always-on domain
Custom analogue: to meet aggressive power targets : sleep and normal mode LDOs, 160MHz Oscillator, 32KHz Oscillator, Glitch filter
Process
55nm eFlash
DFT
Full-Scan with test compression, MBIST and Boundary-Scan
Tool-chain
Synopsys: DC Ultra, ICC, StarRC, Formality, PrimeTime-SI/PX
Cadence: Analog designer flow
Mentor: Questa, Questa CDC, Tessent and Calibre
Xilinx: FPGA based prototyping

