
Safety critical industrial controller
ASIC design, software development and PCB design for a safety critical industrial controller with an on-chip high current switch. Designed to meet IEC61508 SIL 3. The end customer was an OEM with no internal electronics or software design team.
Features
Embedded 16-bit eSi-1600 MCU
On-chip OTP memory and SRAM
Running from a high accuracy 64KHz on-chip oscillator
Ultra low-power requirements
High voltage protection and short and open circuit monitoring
High current switch
Process
180 nm BCD
DFT
Full-Scan, MBIST and Boundary-Scan
Tool-chain
Synopsys: DC, Primetime Formality
Cadence: Incisive, Innovus and analog design flow
Mentor: Tessent, Calibre nmDRC/LVS,
Altera: FPGA prototype
Altium designer for design and layout

