Innovative embedded computing products for FPGA and ASIC

xSPI MEMORY IP SPECIALISTS FOR FPGA AND ASIC

Core business since 2016 with many customers

Already used in industrial control products. Replace your obsolete and slow SPI or QSPI configuration flash with an xSPI memory. This solution employs SLL’s xSPI Multiple Bus Memory Controller (xSPI MBMC). It allows you to select from a wide range of modern, low pin count, low power, xSPI memory devices. After boot, the fast xSPI memory device can be REUSED across your FPGA design. Read more here.  Make your enquiry here. 

Already licensed into 100M+ volume ASIC projects. 

Foundry and node agnostic. PVT aware. 10+ years project lifetime support. 

Can be shared between memories (LVCMOS). ~100% code coverage unit tests. Full standard-cell library abstraction.

Maximum portability and control. Highly configurable.

Easy to enable / disable many options, to achieve YOUR specific project objectives in the smallest through to the largest most complex ASIC designs.

Supports 

a) many memory vendors devices up to 250 MHz DDR b) use in secure configuration and RISC-V subsystems

c) Initiator and Target modes of operation

d) RISC-V

e) different place and route strategies

f) BIST.  

Use it with: SPI, QSPI, xSPI x8, xSPI x16, HyperBus, OctaBus, Xccela Bus, … memories, and 3rd party controllers or SLL’s Multiple Bus xSPI Controller.  

Read more here.  Send your enquiry here. 

Already licensed into 100M+ volume ASIC projects. IP designed and supported by the only dedicated xSPI SIP specialist company.  

IP supports PSRAM, NOR FLASH, STT-MRAM, (xSPI NAND coming soon) from ~9 memory vendors.  (JEDEC xSPI Profile 1.0 & 2.0, HyperBUs 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, OctaBus, Octal Bus, Xccela Bus.)

Up to 250MHz DDR with x4, x8 & x16 data paths. Already used successfully in customer projects on most popular FPGA device families (Altera, Microchip, Xilinx including US+, Lattice coming soon) globally in many applications and industries.  

SLL are the contracted xSPI IP suppliers to Microchip and Lattice and are partners with Altera. Supporting customers globally. Read more here.  Make your enquiry here. 

Fast and efficient bidirectional chip to chip communications
over Octa, Octal and xSPI Profile 2.0 PSRAM protocols
⚡ High bandwidth
⚡ Low latency

Tightly couple DIDIRECTIONAL communications between:

Your chosen ASIC microcontroller unit (MCU) – your chosen FPGA
Your chosen ASIC Microprocessor unit (MPU) – your chosen FPGA

Suitable for use with all MCU that have HyperBus compatible memory controllers.

Read more here. Make your enquiry here.

SIP’s created, maintained and supported for the long term by specialist subject domain experts.
SLL’s  xSPI cores have robust code coverage test suites, broad compatibility testing in hardware, and are widely deployment in the field.

SLL’s SIP supports all PSRAM, NOR Flash, xSPI STT-MRAM memory device families manufactured by ~8 memory vendors in FPGA and high volume ASIC markets.

Rapid expert customer support. Enduring >10 year active maintenance of RTL & device drivers for all xSPI memory vendors device families. Partnership agreements with all memory vendors. Supporting their upcoming new devices. Industries most competitive license fees.

SLL IP is trusted in very high value projects. Reduces risks and costs and helps project success. The right expert guidance at the right time can save your company far more than the very economical price of our IP licenses.

Sensors, industrial control and automation, medical and dental, transport, photonics and communications, video and radar and other imaging, lighting, electricity generation and testing, aerospace mission systems, etc, etc.

Target IP for fast chip to chip communications over xSPI protocol in FPGA and ASIC eg MCU <–> FPGA, FPGA <–> FPGA.

Replace your slow configuration flash with fast xSPI memories in FPGA and ASIC

SLL’s patented, near linear scalable, computing architecture using 3D stacked SDRAM technologies is positioned to disrupt the market.

News: Lattice xSPI collaboration

SLL is contracted by Lattice to bring xSPI memory support to Lattice Certus-NX FPGA in 2024. Includes across-industry collaboration effort between SLL and >6 xSPI memory vendors to support Lattice. Contact SLL for more information.

Contact us here.

NEWS: SLL SUPPORTS CRITICAL LINK’S EXCITING NEW MITYSOM WITH xSPI MEMORY

SLL is pleased to announce appointment as the EXCLUSIVE SUPPLIER of xSPI memory controller IP to Critical Link for their exciting new MitySOM C10L Dev Kit and SOM. This hardware has an Intel C10LP FPGA and xSPI memory. The MitySOM Dev Kit is a low cost replacement for the discontinued Intel C10LP Eval Kit.

Read more here.

NEWS: SLL SUPPORTS EVERSPIN’S STT-MRAM – THE WORLD’S FASTEST NON-VOLATILE xSPI MEMORY

SLL is OFFICIAL SUPPLIER of xSPI memory controller IP to EVERSPIN for their fast and exciting STT-MRAM EMxxLX xSPI Family of Products.

Read more here.

We are trusted

Some examples of our customers:

Microchip

Lattice Semi

Collins Aerospace

Hamamatsu Photonics

L3Harris

Emerson Electric

GC Dental

Caterpillar's Progress Rail

Qualcomm

Basler

TRIUMF

Singapore Agency SIMTech

More examples

Official xSPI SIP Supplier to:

Lattice for Certus-NX and other device variants.

Microchip for PolarFire (SoC) FPGA’s.

Intel/Altera for the Cyclone 10 LP Eval Kit.

– SLL IP supports most Altera FPGA devices

Critical Link for the MitySOM C10LP Eval Kit and SOM.

TRENZ Electronics for their development kits and SOM.

AMD/XILINX:  SLL IP supports most programmable device families including UltraScale and UltraScale+.

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xSPI FPGA Configuration
with Fast Re-Use

Product code: Boot with Fast Re-use

Replace your slow SPI or QSPI flash with a faster or better FPGA fabric configuration device.

This solution employs SLL’s xSPI Multiple Bus Memory Controller (xSPI MBMC). 

xSPI MBMC allows you to select from a wide range of low pin count, faster, or better, configuration devices:

Easy to evaluate on COTS development boards from SLL hardware partners with SLL trial IP.

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xSPI Multiple Bus Memory Controller

The industry 'defacto standard' memory controller for xSPI-like memories

Product code: xSPI MBMC

One very small memory controller for FPGA and ASIC that supports:

  • Far superior memory bandwidth after FPGA fabric configuration
  • Potential to reduce the number of devices and board area in your design

This exciting solution will deliver:

  • NOR Flash, PSRAM (with ECC), exciting xSPI STT-MRAM
  • JEDEC xSPI Profile 1.0 & 2.0
  • HyperBus 1.0, 2.0 & 3.0
  • OctaBus, Octal Bus
  • Xccela Bus
  • All the 9 memory vendors making these devices
  • Up to 250 MHz DDR, with x4, x8 and x16 data paths
  • HyperBus and Octal Bus 200 MHz DDR x8 Multi-Chip Packages (MCP)(NOR Flash and PSRAM on the same ~12 I/O pins)
  • Multiple package sizes, from tiny WLSCP,  4mm x 4mm BGA49, 6mm x8mm BGA24, 8mm x 8mm BGA24, 6mm x 8mm BGA 24 MCP and 8mm x 8mm BGA 24 MCP
  • Support for many FPGA device families
  • End-to-end test benches achieve near 100% code coverage
  • Low cost COTS evaluation boards are available with SLL trial IP

xSPI MBMC IP is physically validated on many memories in partnerships and collaboration with the 9 memory vendors. Also with SLL’s FPGA and hardware development board partners.

SLL is the official supplier of xSPI memory controller IP to Intel for the C10LP Eval Kit (most Intel FPGA’s are supported), to Microchip for PolarFire, to Critical Link for their MitySOM C10L products, (Lattice – coming soon), and Trenz Electronic. The IP also supports most Xilinx devices including UltraScale+.

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ASIC PHY

Product code: Modular PHY Type 01

Foundry and process agnostic LVCMOS (Shared) PHY for use with:

  • 200 MHz DDR x8 xSPI NOR Flash devices from
    Infineon, ISSI, Gigadevice, Macronix and Micron
  • Exciting 200 MHz DDR x8 STT-MRAM from Everspin
    (Nonvolatile memory with PSRAM like performance)
  • 200 MHz DDR x8 Multi-Chip Packages
    (NOR Flash and PSRAM on the same ~12 I/O pins)
  • SPI, QSPI, xSPI x8, xSPI x16, HyperBus, OctaBus, Xccela Bus…
  • Supports Initiator and Target modes of operation

Features:

  • Full standard-cell library abstraction
  • up to 250 MHz DDR PVT aware operation
  • Supports SLL or third party xSPI controllers
  • Near 100% coverage unit tests
Email us for more information.

Fast Chip To Chip Communications

Product code: Chip to Chip Communications

Fast and efficient bidirectional chip to chip communications
over Octa, Octal and xSPI Profile 2.0 PSRAM protocols
⚡ High bandwidth
⚡ Low latency
⚡ End-to-end test benches achieve near 100% code coverage

Tightly coupled BIDIRECTIONAL communications between:

  • Your chosen ASIC microcontroller unit (MCU) ↔︎ your chosen FPGA
  • Your chosen ASIC microprocessor unit (MPU) ↔︎ your chosen FPGA
  • Your chosen FPGA’s:  FPGA ↔︎ FPGA

Suitable for use with all MCU that have HyperBus compatible memory controllers.

Memory Management and
Memory Protection Solutions

Product code: eMMU eMPU

Significant advances for MMU’s and MPU’s in embedded applications:

  • Tiny footprint solution for very resource constrained designs
  • Exceptional real-time memory management capabilities for processors and peripherals
  • Patents awarded USA, South Korea, …

One example:

  • The best features and capabilities of both a memory protection unit (MPU) and
    a memory management unit (MMU) in one tiny module.
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Breakthrough Safe and Secure
Real Time Architecture

Product code: SSRT

Multi-core and many-core SSRT features:

  • support for all real-time operating systems
  • processor agnostic
  • statically time analyzable
  • improves use of all alternate timing analysis approaches
  • simplifies writing real-time software
  • higher performance
  • and more (patents awarded)
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SLL Partners and Supported Vendors

All partners, collaborators and supported vendors
Intel
Microchip (Microsemi)
Xilinx
Lattice
AP Memory
Everspin
GigaDevice
Infineon (Cypress)
ISSI
Macronix
Micron
Winbond
Critical Link LLC
Trenz Electronic
Aries Embedded
Xccela Consortium

SLL Customers

SLL commercial customers include Fortune Global 500’s, government agencies, scientific organizations and institutes, and
SME’s from North America, across the EU and EFTA countries, and to Japan and China.

SLL also works with third party design houses that are working as subcontractors on commercial and government contracts

SLL also works with the FAE of SLL partner companies and with the FAE of their electronics distribution companies (Arrow, Digi-Key, Macnica and others) in all regions and with their end customers.

Learn more here

SLL IP's Applications

SLL IP’s are employed commercially in many applications.

Some examples include:

  • Industrial control systems
  • Industrial automation systems
  • Medical products
  • Dental products
  • Transport (trains and helicopters)
  • Aerospace mission management systems
  • Industrial lighting
  • Electricity generation and distribution testing equipment
  • Photonics and communication systems
  • Video systems
  • Radar and other imaging and sensor products and systems
  • Scientific measuring and testing equipment
  • COTS FPGA development boards as bundled IP
  • Others

Customers can easily use SLL solutions on COTS and proprietary development boards. All major FPGA vendors' devices are supported:

Trial and Reference Designs

SLL provides trials with reference designs for several of our IP’s.

SLL reference designs have been downloaded thousands of times.

Request your Trial IP here

SLL is the expert intermediary between our customers and partners

SLL has an extensive circle of partners.

Customers can rely on SLL as a one stop shop for a wide range of domain expertise for our IP’s.

SLL is the official partner of many of the manufacturers.

SLL receives fast support from our partners on behalf of our customers whenever needed.

About Synaptic Laboratories Ltd (SLL)

COTS semiconductor IP (SIP) for many embedded applications in FPGA and ASIC hardware.    ⭐ Patents awarded in many countries

Leading FPGA and memory vendors choose SLL to be their semiconductor IP provider partner

Fortune Global 500’s, SME’s, research institutions… globally

SLL supports our partners’ FAE and electronics distribution companies FAE in all regions

⚡ IP design house   ⚡ Project design guidance   ⚡ FPGA design shrink and optimization   ⭐ Excellent customer support

SLL really delivered on our ASIC project. No one else could have delivered such quality!
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