Case Study

Automotive GNSS Baseband Processor

Complete SoC development of a GNSS Baseband processor with power-management and including the design of all the analog IP.

GNSS
Features
  • Dual core 32-bit processor with double precision FPU
  • Multi-standard, fast acquisition, high accuracy GNSS accelerator hardware
  • Cryptographic accelerators including SHA521, TRNG, AES
  • AMBA peripherals including CAN-FD, I2C, SPI/QSPI, UART, DMA
  • multiple clock domains
  • Battery-backed logic domain
  • Custom designed PLL, Osc, SMPS, LDO, Battery-backup Logic
Process
  • 28 nm
DFT
  • Full-Scan, MBIST, Test Compression, Analog Test and Boundary-scan
Tool-chain
  • Synopsys: DC-Ultra, ICC2, StarRC, Formality, PrimeTime-SI/PX
  • Mentor: Questa, Questa CDC, Tessent and Calibre
  • Cadence: full analog design toolset