Testimonials
ASIC / SoC design services
May 31, 2021
When developing SoCs, customers want the fastest, lowest-risk design journey possible, […] This accreditation was awarded following a stringent audit process and demonstrates Dolphin Design’s expertise in designing high-quality Arm-based SoCs with rapid time-to-market.
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When developing SoCs, customers want the fastest, lowest-risk design journey possible, […] This accreditation was awarded following a stringent audit process and demonstrates Dolphin Design’s expertise in designing high-quality Arm-based SoCs with rapid time-to-market.
Read our press release >
Discover the Arm Approved Design Partner Program >
Platform solutions
We selected Dolphin Design’s power management IP platform for their unique set of silicon proven Power Management IPs which star a combo voltage regulator, the RAR. This combo voltage regulator is solving at once our challenge of ultra-low power in sleep mode, of high-efficiency in active mode together with a fast transition between power modes. All these three dimensions of energy-efficiency are pivotal for designing a BLE chip.
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The expertise of Dolphin Design’s Field Application Engineers was instrumental in helping us identify the optimal power network architecture and selecting the relevant set of silicon IPs to build this architecture. Dolphin Design is the perfect one-stop shop for power management IP solutions with an in-depth low power expertise to help IoT chip makers achieve energy efficient designs.
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Panoply offering
In order to simplify our client designs and shorten their time-to-market, GF and our ecosystem partners are helping to pave the way to future performance standards in 5G, IoT and automo-tive,”...“With the support of silicon IP providers like Dolphin Design, new power, performance and reliability design infrastructures will be available to customers to fully leverage the benefits of GF’s 22FDX technology.
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The emergence of powerful voice recognition algorithms drives the growth of connected devices controlled by voice, where voice recognition and ultra-low power technologies are key to delivering the optimal user experience. The complete set of Foundation, Feature and Fabric IPs of Dolphin Design will allow us to demonstrate fast and safely a human-machine interaction system relying on a C-Sky microcontroller-based SoC platform.
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Read or watch the complete interview of Eric Flamand, speaking about a breakthrough SoC for IoT applications and sharing its experience of cooperating with Dolphin Design.
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Dolphin Design’s Silicon IPs, already silicon proven in a representative low-power SoC test chip, allow us to deliver best in class power consumption figures in stand-by as well as very fast switching time between different operating Voltage / Frequency points. Furthermore, integrating those components into our SoC reduces significantly the overall system BOM while greatly simplifying the system design around GAP8. [...] FPGA demos of GAP8 are available to customers today, and GAP8 samples will be available in mid-2017.
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Dolphin Design is a leading silicon IP provider for low-power IoT SoCs. In view of the growing demand for low power consumption in IoT devices, we intend to leverage the unique solutions offered by Dolphin Integration to meet the challenges of our IoT customers
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Power Management IPs
We selected the Retention Alternating Voltage Regulator from Dolphin Design due to its ability to achieve high efficiency DC/DC conversion with 225 nA in low power mode. This solution allows us to reduce the power consumption of our SoC by a factor of more than 2.5 times, resulting in extended battery life. This is especially critical in today’s battery operated devices with limited power budget.
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The availability of these silicon-proven power management IPs on GF’s 22FDX platform paves the way for more efficient power distribution and control design to realize cost-effective next generation energy-efficient SoCs.
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Security, cost, and low-power are key enablers for IoT, and Arm’s hardware and software IP provides a solid foundation to build upon for a range of applications. When paired with Dolphin Design’s configurable voltage regulators, customers can significantly cut their development time when designing complex and unique IoT systems.
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When we first discovered Dolphin Design, we had in mind to acquire some vital Silicon IPs. Their intensive pre-sales support made us realize that they could provide us with a complete set of SoC Fabric IPs together with the transfer of know-how for implementing safely our low-power SoC.
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Standard Cell Libraries & Memory compilers
TDK-Micronas decided to use Dolphin Design’s RAM and ROM silicon IPs for its new generation of 3D Hall magnetic sensor products, thanks to the best fit of small footprint, low power and high electrical performance, as well as for the strong support received during the design phase.
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Dolphin Design enriches our ecosystem with low power and high density Foundation IP. This award recognizes their capability to provide a consistent offering of low-power IP in our specific process variants to address the low power consumption requirements of our customers.
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Dolphin Design regularly enriches our ecosystem with a large range of specialty and mainstream IP. […] This distinction [TSMC’s 2014 Award for the Open Innovation Platform’s Partner of the Year in the category of Specialty IP components] recognizes their capability to provide high quality IP in our specific process variants.
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Dolphin Design enable Enverv to reach requirements of Smart metering applications. Thanks to the unique architecture of SESAME BIV TSMC 65nm LP and Dolphin Integration’s low leakage expertise, we can save battery life and reduce our die cost in this growing market of smartgrid and smarthome.
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Thanks to the simplicity of the SESAME uHD-BTF scripts and Dolphin Design’s low-power expertise, Dongbu HiTek can offer to their users a unique combination of competitive advantages at 130 nm CIS.
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Dolphin Design clearly and quickly understood our specific needs within the medical device market, to customize their existing low power digital library at 180 nm for us to deliver 0.8V operation. Thanks to the unique architecture of SESAME eLC-DV and Dolphin Design's low power expertise, we in turn can offer our customers an ultra-low power mixed signal IC solution for use in their medical and portable applications. Dolphin Design's library was easily integrated into our infrastructure and design flow and that's always helpful to expedite the design process.
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Dolphin’s memories satisfy our demanding requirements for ultra low power and we are pleased to engage with Dolphin for provision of both RAM and ROM. The integration of its solutions will help us to deliver our revolutionary technology which I am sure will change the face of consumer GPS applications in the very near future.
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Cost reduction with Dolphin Design’s SESAME results from its simple structure facilitating controlled optimization at both the Synthesis and Place-and-route stages, and we appreciate being among the first to benefit from this timely innovation.
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Dolphin team's prompt response to varies questions we came up with. Without the close cooperation between our two companies, we would not have finished the design with a newly developed library in such short time. In terms of support, Dolphin is one of the best in my experience.
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Audio converter IPs
Our experience of using Dolphin Design’s ultra-dense audio DAC has been very positive. » ... « A pure logic DAC is extremely compact at 28 nm and enables to drastically reduce the industrial test duration, as structural testing such as SCAN can efficiently be applied, which is pivotal for our SoC competitiveness on the aggressive market of Set-Top Boxes.
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Meeting the right balance between silicon costs, audio quality and low power consumption is a challenging task. The YANZI-A-hexADC-VD.01, a feature-rich audio ADC from Dolphin Design, packs all these advantages into our smart speaker offering.
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Our cooperation with Dolphin Design extends our process offering for the IoT market and provides a total solution comprising a dedicated low leakage process, carefully tailored for low power applications using a long list of Silicon IPs offered by Dolphin Design. This is in addition to our process customization capabilities to match specific customer’s needs
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We are pleased to present this award [2011 TSMC IP Partner Award for Analog/Mixed-Signal IP] to Dolphin Design based on their TSMC9000 compliance and good feedback from customers.
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We already have licensed several audio Codecs from Dolphin. But their new generation of audio Codecs should help us reach new heights. First, the power consumption of their DAC is amazingly low. In playback mode, the total power consumption of the DAC with a Class AB headphone amplifier does not exceed 7 mW! This translates into a much longer usage on battery for our end-users. Second, this audio Codec relies on their new and patented technology for reducing pop-up noise below an audible level. Last but not least, they have enhanced their audio Codec architecture to significantly reduce the out-of-band noise, which shall facilitate the performance appreciation by our users, even those which do not own a test equipment dedicated to audio measurement.
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We are enthusiastic about this alliance [Note: strategic partnership for Portable Media Players]. As a leading foundry that is recognized worldwide, we wanted the benefit of relying on Dolphin’s robust audio virtual components for providing customers with the best performance mix for high volume SoCs.
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We were convinced by the performance and quality of DOLPHIN's embedded memories, most power-stingy but their offering of a practical and low-cost development tool is instrumental for spreading our products efficiently in a world and at a time where old habits do not survive.
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Soft IPs
The choice of the Dolphin Design's cache controller for our SoC was an excellent trade-off between price, performance and low power consumption compared to other offers such as ARM. We are highly confident for the integration phase, which is simplified by the support of standard interfaces. The innovative self-adaptive module, dynamically upgrading cache configuration according to the executed program, is very helpful in targeting very low power applications that require performance.
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