Case Studies

Obsolescence management for a leading Aerospace company

A re-design of a pattern-generator board used in the Transponder system for a leading Aerospace product company, based in India…

VLSI division, HCL Technologies, Chennai on DO-254 Training

The training sessions had the right balance of basic and advanced topics, and it has made it easier for the teams to apply DO-254 processes effectively, thus enhancing productivity and reducing rework. The training has really helped our teams to deliver more value to multiple clients, who include most of Tier1 and Tier2 suppliers and it has helped our group in several ways…

Team Accomplishments

Medical - Laser surgical knife for a Medical company- Concept, Board, Embedded SW, Prototype and Production.

Wireless – Multiple ASICs - PDA, Bluetooth, 3G/ WCDMA, IEEE 802.11.

Medical - Net-enabled devices; 8051-based TCP/IP-based server which can interact with multiple clients for remote monitoring in Medical and Surveillance systems- Concept to Product.

Mixed Signal – Multiple ASICs in the RF domain.

Aero - Avionics Full Duplex Switched Ethernet (AFDX, ARINC 664) End System and Switch ASICs (DAL A) – Requirements Capture to chip-level verification to certification support.

Aero - Control and Monitor FPGA for a Slat-Flap Controller (DAL A) - Requirements capture to BIT File to system-level integration to certification support.

Medical and Automotive - Embedded SW Applications development based on MontaVista and VxWorks Operating Systems.

Storage - Fiber Channel (supports 1G, 2G, 4G, 8G) Test FPGA- Concept to BIT File.

Consumer - Five-start green power-down mode for an Enterprise Multi-Function Printer- Concept to Product, Board and Firmware.

Aero - Collision Avoidance System Traffic FPGA (DAL B) – Requirements to chip-level verification.

Medical - Processor-bus controller CPLDs for a drug delivery system- End of Life sustenance.

Networking - Context Processing ASIC, Layer 7 in hardware- Concept to FPGA to SoC to System Integration and Test.

Imaging –JPEG2000-based SoC for DSC and Multi Function Printer. Verification for Video Graphics accelerators for leading Graphic Processor companies.

Consumer - Embedded SW for mobile devices – Applications development based on Symbian, Windows and Palm Operating Systems.

PC-Architecture - SATA Host Controller Core, IEEE 1394a, USB2.0, CardBus and PCI, PCI-X cores – Architecture, Design, Verification and Prototyping.

Networking - 1G Ethernet MAC Core- Architecture, Design, Verification and Prototyping.