The mission of MERDCI’s VLSI Group is to provide appropriate logic solutions for target applications through ASIC or FPGA design and implementation. The VLSI Group also provides IP cores for use in our ASIC designs for different applications. The VLSI Group works in close cooperation with other R&D groups to provide needed functionalities for different applications.

The VLSI Group’s application areas include:

• Wireless communication ICs and systems;
• Broadband communication ICs and systems;
• Smart Cards, RFID devices and security systems.

The VLSI Group attempts to find the most appropriate logic solutions for the particular application and usage in mind. It offers ASIC or FPGA solutions, using a variety of IP cores, to address the needs of the system under consideration.
The VLSI Group follows a top-down design methodology in which trade-offs between various performance requirements and cost considerations are evaluated before deciding on the architecture, partitioning scheme and implementation. Depending on potential market size, cost considerations and performance requirements, partitioning scheme may lead to implementations involving either a single system-on-a-chip ASIC or multiple FPGA plus a number of commercially available components.

ASIC: Application Specific Integrated Circuit

FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array