Case Study

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.

sensor interface case study

View All Case Studies

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