Flagship practice · Semiconductor
We design the silicon.
A full-flow ASIC and FPGA design services practice — architecture through verification, DFT and physical design to first-silicon bring-up. Built in Pakistan, staffed by engineers who have taped out, and structured to train the cohort behind them.
Why we built this
The talent existed. The pathway did not.
Pakistan graduates thousands of capable electronics and computer engineers every year, and almost none of them get near a real design flow. The gap is not ability — it is the absence of an industrial route from graduate to verified, billable design engineer. We built that route as a working design services business, because training only becomes real when it is attached to delivery someone is paying for.
The work
What a design engagement actually produces.
Not slideware. Floorplans that close timing, wafers that yield, and waveforms that prove the block does what the spec says.
The flow
Every stage, under one roof.
Engage us for a single stage or the whole flow. Because the stages sit in one team, the handoffs that usually cost weeks simply do not happen.
- 01
Architecture
Specification, micro-architecture and partitioning. Power, performance and area budgets set before a line of RTL exists.
- Spec authoring
- Micro-architecture
- PPA budgeting
- IP selection
- 02
RTL Design
Synthesisable SystemVerilog with lint and CDC discipline applied from the first commit rather than at the end.
- SystemVerilog RTL
- Lint & CDC closure
- Clock/reset architecture
- Synthesis handoff
- 03
Verification
Constrained-random UVM environments, formal property checking and coverage closure driven by a written verification plan.
- UVM testbenches
- Formal verification
- Coverage closure
- Assertion-based checks
- 04
DFT
Testability designed in — scan architecture, compression and pattern generation targeting real coverage numbers.
- Scan insertion
- ATPG & compression
- MBIST integration
- JTAG/boundary scan
- 05
Physical Design
Floorplan through signoff, closing timing, power and physical verification against the foundry deck.
- Floorplan & P&R
- CTS
- Timing signoff
- DRC/LVS closure
- 06
Bring-up
First silicon validation — bench bring-up, debug and characterisation, plus the firmware to exercise it.
- Lab bring-up
- Silicon debug
- Characterisation
- Firmware & drivers
Why engage us
What makes this practice different.
- Spec to bring-up in one team, not handed between vendors
- Full-flow
- Led by engineers who have taken designs to silicon
- Tape-out
- Overlapping hours with EU and US design centres
- Time-zone
- We train the next cohort while we deliver
- Pipeline
Also in this practice
Beyond the ASIC flow.
FPGA engineering
Prototyping, emulation and production FPGA designs — including high-speed interfaces and DSP datapaths.
- Xilinx / AMD & Intel flows
- High-speed SerDes
- DSP & signal chains
- Timing closure
Embedded systems
The software layer that makes silicon useful — bare metal, RTOS and Linux, written by people who read the datasheet.
- Bare-metal & RTOS
- Embedded Linux & BSPs
- Device drivers
- Hardware/software co-design
Workforce development
Structured training that converts strong electronics graduates into billable design engineers — the pipeline the industry lacks.
- Structured curriculum
- Mentored lab work
- Live project rotation
- Certification pathways
Engage the practice
Tell us about the block.
Whether it is a single verification engagement or a full design centre, the first conversation is with an engineer who can scope it properly.