Post-Silicon & Embedded
We understand the anxiety when a wafer or chip arrives after fabrication. Our bring-up experts get silicon running on arrival, debug what matters, and build the firmware that turns a chip into a product.
Silicon Bring-Up
Our silicon bring-up experts take on the mission of quickly bringing up silicon on arrival, debugging and fixing any set-up or ATE-environment issues, and promptly reporting the Quality Check Points (QCP) that a freshly arrived sample achieves.
Bring-up planning
Power-on sequences, QCP definitions, board and firmware readiness.
First power-on
Clocks, resets, PLLs, boot and JTAG access validated in hours.
Interface bring-up
DDR training, PCIe link-up, USB, Ethernet, MIPI and SerDes.
Daily reporting
Transparent QCP status to design, program and customer teams.
Validation & Characterisation
We develop validation plans and test content that exercise functional, electrical and performance requirements across process, voltage and temperature — with automation that makes results repeatable.
What we deliver
- Functional validation plans and traceable test content
- Performance, power and thermal characterisation across PVT
- High-speed interface margining and compliance testing
- Lab automation frameworks in Python
- Correlation with ATE and product engineering
- Validation sign-off reports and errata documentation
Silicon Debug
Silicon debug is a vital part of our solutions. When customers hit a roadblock during bring-up, our experts — well versed in test equipment and how test programs work — accurately isolate real design issues from issues introduced by the test facility, equipment, programs or patterns. This adds great value to the overall execution of SoC deployment.
Root-cause analysis
Structured triage across silicon, board, firmware and tester.
On-chip debug
Trace, performance counters, scan-dump and DFT-assisted debug.
Bench instrumentation
Oscilloscopes, logic and protocol analysers, thermal chambers.
Workarounds & ECOs
Firmware workarounds and metal-fix recommendations.
Embedded Firmware & Drivers
We develop the low-level software that runs on our partners' silicon — from bare-metal bring-up code and bootloaders to RTOS and Linux device drivers — with hardware-in-the-loop testing from the start.
- Bare-metal bring-up firmware and ROM/boot code
- Register-level drivers for peripherals and high-speed interfaces
- RTOS integration (FreeRTOS, Zephyr) and power-management firmware
- Linux kernel drivers, device trees and U-Boot ports
- Secure boot, TrustZone and crypto-accelerator enablement
- Firmware test harnesses and CI on hardware
Board & System Software
Beyond the chip, we deliver board support packages, reference software and diagnostics that help your customers evaluate and integrate silicon quickly.
We're hiring validation & embedded engineers
Post-Silicon Validation Engineer · Embedded Systems Engineer