Front-End IC Design
RTL design, functional verification, synthesis and STA closure for SoC and ASIC programs — delivered with methodology rigor and clear ownership boundaries.
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FROM ARCHITECTURE SPEC TO SYNTHESIZED NETLIST
Front-end IC design is the digital flow that turns an architectural specification into a synthesized, timing-clean netlist ready for physical implementation. The work spans RTL coding in SystemVerilog or VHDL, exhaustive verification under UVM and formal methods, logic synthesis with multi-mode multi-corner (MMMC) signoff, and static timing analysis against signed-off SDC constraints.
Our team builds and verifies digital blocks for SoCs, ASICs and standalone IP — from AMBA AXI-based subsystems and memory controllers to RISC-V and ARM-based compute clusters. Engagements run on customer-defined methodology and tooling, with deliverables that downstream physical design and verification teams can pick up without rework. We work in lockstep with your architects, back-end team and DV leads, and we document handoff so reviews stay short.
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OUR APPROACH
Methodology Alignment First
Before any RTL is written we align on your coding guidelines, lint rules, naming conventions, version-control workflow and review gates. If your DV team runs UVM with specific testbench architecture, we adopt it. If you have an internal CI flow built on Jenkins or GitLab with regression dashboards, our engineers integrate into it. The goal is that every artifact we produce — RTL, testbench, scripts, reports — looks like it came from inside your team and passes your review with no special handling.
Verification-First Mindset
Verification engineers join the project on day one, not after RTL freeze. The verification plan is drafted alongside the micro-architecture document, coverage goals are quantified before testbench coding starts, and formal targets are selected for blocks where simulation coverage is structurally weak. This shifts bug discovery left, shortens regression cycles before tape-out, and produces a closure report that maps every feature in the spec to a coverage point or formal proof. Bugs found at signoff are the most expensive bugs — we work to keep that number small.
Predictable Delivery
Each milestone has a defined exit criterion that the customer accepts before we move to the next phase. RTL freeze means lint clean, code coverage at agreed threshold, and passing nightly regression. Synthesis sign-off means MMMC clean with documented waivers. Status reports are weekly, written, and quote actual numbers — coverage percentages, open CRs, runtime — not adjectives. When a milestone slips, the slip is escalated the same week it appears, with a concrete recovery plan rather than a softened estimate.
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CLIENTS REVIEW
The ability to collaborate, especially for a company like WBD, cannot be underestimated. Our choice of PTSoft is like a company that really follows a few main principles. We are trying to create something that is a consumer experience for our employees.
Dave duvall
CIO, Warner Bros.Discovery
The ability to collaborate, especially for a company like WBD, cannot be underestimated. Our choice of PTSoft is like a company that really follows a few main principles. We are trying to create something that is a consumer experience for our employees.
Dave duvall
CIO, Warner Bros.Discovery
The ability to collaborate, especially for a company like WBD, cannot be underestimated. Our choice of PTSoft is like a company that really follows a few main principles. We are trying to create something that is a consumer experience for our employees.
Dave duvall
CIO, Warner Bros.Discovery