Toshiba ASIC & Foundry - European LSI Design and Engineering Centre

1. www.toshiba-components.com/ASIC
EUROPEAN LSI DESIGN AND
ENGINEERING CENTRE (ELDEC)
ENGINEERING SUPPORT
FOR SYSTEM-ON-CHIP (SOC)

2. ELDEC – LOCAL EXPERTISE DESIGN METHODOLOGY AND
FOR THE EUROPEAN MARKET KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Toshiba's European LSI Design and Engineering Centre (ELDEC) Knowledge Management is the key to ELDEC’s success in
was founded as a strong and sustainable contributor to the supporting both customer and in-house developments. Through
ongoing semiconductor operations of Toshiba Electronics Europe Knowledge Management processes and investment in specific
GmbH (TEE). ELDEC’s mission is to meet the needs of European local competencies - including sophisticated design review
customers and proactively address market requirements through stages - ELDEC delivers ‘right first time’ silicon, minimising
the development and delivery of innovative, high-quality, silicon time-to-market and reducing development time and cost.
products with minimum time-to-market.
The ELDEC Design Methodology Development team drives
ELDEC provides TEE’s ASIC & Foundry customers with integrated, continuous design platform innovation for deep sub-micron
custom, system-on-chip (SoC) solutions; develops Toshiba’s own designs. The team also defines and supports the latest technology
application specific standard products (ASSPs) and associated design tools and methodologies. ELDEC’s focus on Knowledge
embedded software; and provides application support for the Management also helps Toshiba and its customers to develop an
company’s comprehensive family of microcontrollers and ASSPs. early understanding of market opportunities and future technologies.
Operating from TEE’s European headquarters in Düsseldorf,
Germany, ELDEC employs over 100 highly skilled local engineers.
These engineers are involved in all aspects of LSI development
including hardware and software design, creation of IP building
blocks and SoC implementation. ELDEC’s engineers also create
SoC-based reference systems and specify and produce design
and software tools.
ELDEC’s competencies cover high-density, complex ASICs, ASSPs
and systems. Target applications include telecommunications,
networking, multimedia and automotive.
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ELDEC is committed to delivering high-quality solutions and at a local level include strong European relationships with leading
services to its customers on time and within budget. To continually EDA vendors.
improve project execution ELDEC employs 6 Sigma methodologies
for all core activities. By establishing specific competencies,
producing and exchanging hard and soft IP and sharing its
know-how, ELDEC makes a significant contribution to Toshiba's
worldwide design and engineering activities.

3. IMPLEMENTATION AND
DESIGN SERVICES (IDS)
From RTL-to-GDS and on into final packaging and tape-out
ELDEC’s Implementation and Design Services (IDS) cover every
aspect of chip design, implementation and production.
ELDEC can support integrated ICs with gate counts ranging from
50,000 to 15 million based on Toshiba’s leading edge advanced
CMOS processes at 130nm, 90nm, 65nm and 40nm process
nodes.
Services covered by ELDEC IDS include:
Consultancy for all RTL design issues
TOSHIBA’S IP LINEUP
Synthesis
Toshiba’s leading edge one pass design flow delivers minimum
Chip layout
turn-around-time (TAT) implementation with the lowest possible
Integration of mixed-signal IP
risk through early quality checks, rapid prototyping and single-pass
Complex memory integration
final implementation.
Low power design
Design for test (DFT) DESIGN &
Test pattern generation HARDWARE DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION
PIN-LIST
At-speed tests
PLANNING & PROTOTYPING > 4 WEEKS
RT-LEVEL PIN-OUT
DESIGN & VERIFICATION
Special I/O tests including:
DDR2/3 STRUCTUAL
NETLIST & DFT:
S-ATA PROTOTYPE CONSTRAINTS MEMORYBIST & SCAN
Static timing analysis (STA) SYNTHESIS
Yield optimisation
DFT: JTAG
PROTOTYPE LAYOUT
Package selection and design including:
Cost, performance and thermal considerations
BACK
Multi-chip module (MCM) and System-in-package PROTOTYPE ANNOTATION TIMING
OPTIMISATION
(SiP) solutions STA
I/O assignment
Substrate design support including signal integrity design
Support for quality audit (QA) procedures NETLIST &
FINAL CONSTR. DFT:
SYNTHESIS DFT: JTAG
MEMORYBIST & SCAN
FINAL IMPLEMENTATION 1-2 WEEKS
All aspects of ELDEC support in Europe are coordinated via local TIMING
project management teams, backed by links to both local and OPTIMISATION
global experts. FUNC.
RTL FINAL LAYOUT
MOD. STATIC
Project management services continue through into successful TIMING
CROSSTALK- & SI-FIXES
ANALYSIS
mass production and ensure reliable schedule planning while GATE- (STA) BACK- TIMING FIXES
providing the benefit of a single point of contact for all technical LEVEL ANNOTATION
SIM. FORMAL VERIFICATION (GL)
queries, advice and guidance.
Project managers provide customers with high levels of visibility MASK
of project status through ‘live’ tracking documentation. This FINAL VERIFICATION
APPROVAL
(2ND SIGN-OFF) TAPE-OUT
includes status updates, risk management procedures and
action identification and ownership.
For maximum customer benefit Toshiba aims to become involved
as early as possible in the planning and prototyping phase.
Toshiba’s ELDEC specialists can provide early design and concept
quality checks in areas such as pin-out, clock architecture and
key design constraints. Several prototyping iterations may occur
during this phase to ensure that the final implementation can be
performed in a single pass.

4. Benefits include access to:
Advanced 130nm, 90nm, 65nm and 40nm CMOS processes
A comprehensive range of mixed-signal and analogue IP
Digital IP including processors and cores
Local project management
Resources for early identification of IP and other technologies
MIXED-SIGNAL IP for future applications and markets
Skilled engineers with wide-ranging experience in all areas of
As advanced CMOS processes enable ever more sophisticated
ASIC design, implementation and system architecture definition.
SoC designs, the demand for linking core digital processing
functionality with the real ‘analogue’ world becomes more
Unlike third party design houses, Toshiba’s Integrated Device
important. As a result, mixed-signal and analogue Intellectual
Manufacturer (IDM) model allows the company to provide total SoC
Property (IP) building blocks have become a critical factor in
competence. Customers can deal with a single organization from
efficient SoC and ASSP development.
initial IP sourcing to design, through testing and on into final
manufacture.
ELDEC’s experience and expertise has supported the seamless
integration of complex analogue and mixed-signal IP cores into a
IP DEVELOPMENT PRODUCT
large number of SoC designs. As well as local expertise, ELDEC AND SUPPORT SOC DEVELOPMENT
can draw on the considerable resources and mixed-signal IP COMPETENCE
expertise at other Toshiba research and development centres
around the world.
PROCESS IMPLEMENTATION
QUALIFICATION TOSHIBA
AND LIBRARY WAFER
Through ELDEC Toshiba also supports customers looking to FAB
develop their own mixed-signal solutions. ELDEC can provide
a Process Design Kit (PDK) for the required technology node MANUFACTURING
as well as evaluation, verification and qualification support. This TECHNOLOGY
DEVELOPMENT
• WAFER
ASSEMBLY • TEST
FEEDBACK
ensures the IP meets the same strict quality and stability criteria
as the company’s own IP.
As an IDM, Toshiba has intimate involvement with the underlying
THIRD PARTY IP IN-HOUSE IP process technology and rapid access to production feedback. This
ensures that designs can be optimized and customized with final
DESIGN DESIGN production in mind from the very beginning. What’s more, all of the
hard macro IP cores developed by Toshiba’s engineering teams are
VERIFICATION guaranteed to be fully compatible and optimized for the company’s
(SIMULATION, RULE-CHECKING...) VERIFICATION
(SIMULATION, advanced SoC processes. This guarantee also applies to third party
ACCEPTANCE
VERIFICATION
RULE-CHECKING...) architecture-based IPs provided through the Toshiba channel.
Such IPs are subject to exactly the same rigorous qualification
EVALUATION, and verification procedures.
EVALUATION,
QUALIFICATION (TESTCHIP ON TOSHIBA
(TESTCHIP ON TOSHIBA
TECHNOLOGY)
TECHNOLOGY) For the customer, the IDM model also eliminates the blurring of the
boundaries of responsibility. Toshiba’s responsibility encompasses
VALIDATION VALIDATION everything from IP to final production and yield optimization. This
(REAL-MACHINE (REAL-MACHINE
gives customers the peace of mind that they are working with a
ENVIRONMENT) ENVIRONMENT)
company that shares their objective of delivering successful volume
silicon in the shortest possible TAT.
PERFORMED BY TOSHIBA PERFORMED BY IP PROVIDER
SOC HANDOVER MODELS
Whether the IP is developed by ELDEC or starts life with a
To speed up and simplify the implementation of SoCs based
customer or third party design house it is subjected to the same
on the company’s advanced CMOS processes; Toshiba offers
rigorous design verification methodologies. This includes full
a variety of development handover models including:
testing of the IP in target applications and validation of the
interoperability and system level quality of interface system
IP using application boards.
ASIC MODEL
RTL handover with synthesis, place-and-route, and verification
by Toshiba or gate-level handover with synthesis by customer
SUPPORT FOR CUSTOMER SOCS and layout implementation by Toshiba
Toshiba ELDEC support for customer SoC development in SEAMLESS “HYBRID” MODELS
Europe is provided via Toshiba Electronics Europe’s ASIC &
Mixed-signal IP/block development by customer based on
Foundry Business Unit. Working with ELDEC this business can
PDK, and chip-level integration by Toshiba (RTL handover
evaluate and develop product requests, perform technical and
or gate-level handover)
commercial feasibility studies, define system architectures and
provide access to IP. FULL COT (CUSTOMER OWN TOOLING) MODEL
Physical data handover (GDSII) by customer.
In each handover model ELDEC engineers are available to
provide full technical support, advice and guidance relating
to the integration-, QA- and testing of the FPD IP.

5. SUPPORT FOR ASSPS CAMERA DISPLAY
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ELDEC creates integrated, high-performance ASSPs for BUFFER
automotive, telecommunications, multimedia and industrial MIPI DISPLAY
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applications. Successful application-specific designs include BRIDGE
SoCs for vehicle instrument clusters, ABS subsystems and
BRIDGE
embedded mobile peripherals for cellular handsets.
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TOSHIBA ASSP SCOPE OF WORK
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System design and simulation (HW/SW) I/O EXPANDER
Design for test
MIPI® word marks and logos are service
VLSI design, implementation and test marks owned by MIPI Alliance, Inc.
VALIDATION IMPLEMENTATION
IP design (digital and mixed signal)
In the automotive arena
Quality Management ELDEC develops ASSPs that
(KM, KCR, QS9000, TS16949) support CAN, MediaLB™,
Standardization (contributing and consuming) APIX® and FlexRay™ solutions.
- MIPI, MPEG, OpenGL, OpenVG, ARM) Automotive expertise includes
development of graphic
PCB design (test & reference) subsystems deployed in
VLSI and SW validation instrument cluster and
infotainment applications.
Conformancy and interoperability testing
PRODUCT
SUPPORT
Device characterization ELDEC CPU core integration and CPU sub-system development
incorporates a wide variety of embedded ARM cores, embedded
Application support HW & SW MIPS cores and Toshiba’s own Media embedded Processor
(MeP) technology.
ELDEC support for ASSP implementation starts with market
research and product planning. System architects and project ELDEC’s embedded software experience includes MPEG-2 and
managers then create system specifications and project plans MPEG4 firmware, driver software, graphic controller algorithms,
encompassing all aspects of LSI product development and graphic accelerators, image recognition firmware and middleware.
support, including: Embedded RTOS expertise covers Embedded Linux, Khronos
System design and simulation API and NoTA. ELDEC teams also develop software for home
Circuit design appliances, motor control and vehicle information systems.
Concept and design for test
Silicon implementation Through ELDEC Toshiba provides turnkey reference designs,
Power and EMC optimization FPGA prototyping, evaluation boards, documentation and other
Package planning services to speed the evaluation and implementation of Toshiba
Verification and validation ASSPs and microcontrollers in customer applications.
Device characterization
Datasheet creation ELDEC also provides technical and application support for Toshiba’s
Software support comprehensive family of standard microcontrollers and micro-
Mass production support processors, including the latest devices based on ARM® cores.
Continuous quality and reliability control
In support of its ASSP
Embedded hardware expertise covers high-speed interfaces up development programs
to 10Gbps and industry- and de-facto-standard interfaces such Toshiba contributes to and
as MIPI®, HDMI, PCI, USB, and serial ATA. participates in standards
bodies and has a number
For mobile telecoms applications ELDEC develops mobile of relevant quality engineering
peripheral SoCs for camera, display and audio-video subsystems. certifications. These include
These SoCs enrich the functionality of cellular phone platforms TS16949 for automotive project management and development,
and support enhanced, ‘ready-to-go’ embedded connectivity. SIL-1 for safety critical systems such as ABS, and conformance
and interoperability approvals for communication standards such
as DVB, Bluetooth and MIPI.

6. MANUFACTURING
COMPETENCIES, SUPPLY
CHAIN MANAGEMENT AND
LOGISTIC SUPPORT
Toshiba handles its own process development, and has its own,
fully controlled wafer fabs, packaging and test facilities. SoCs and
ASSPs created by ELDEC are manufactured at Toshiba’s 300mm
wafer-fabrication facilities in Oiita and Nagasaki. The company
continues to invest in technology and fab capacity to ensure
reliable support of customer requirements and the needs of its
own ASSP programme.
Toshiba is able to commercialize leading-edge CMOS processes
for advanced ICs one to two years ahead of the industry, to the
direct benefit of our 300mm manufacturing customers. By leading
the industry in producing high-performance system-level ICs in
90nm since 2003, plus early production of 65nm in 2006—with
development of 40 and 28nm process technologies underway—
Toshiba is able to stay ahead of the yield curve and is continually
solving DFM complexities to enhance performance, streamline
time-to-revenue and reduce IC cost.
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