Semiconductors and Embedded Systems

Semiconductors make the world go. Semiconductors & Embedded Systems form the essential core of the devices that drive business and connect our modern world. Technological innovations in almost every industry segment is driven by silicon, a hardware (HW) system and a suite of software (SW) components running over it. Semiconductors and Embedded Systems play a critical role in industries such as consumer electronics, Automotive, Communication Infrastructure, Enterprise and retail, Industrial and Data centers. 

The semiconductor industry epitomizes rapid technological innovation, but continuing technological innovation in everyday objects continues to push the industry for solutions that deliver more performance, improved efficiency and lower operating costs at a faster pace. The semiconductor industry is now becoming increasingly solution-centric and reducing time to market has become one of the most critical priorities.

End to end Embedded Systems Development Services

Sysmetlab’s Semiconductor & Embedded solutions are specifically designed to accelerate time to market, optimize cost and improve productivity for customers across industry segments. Sysmetlab provides a one stop shop solution for Semiconductor companies, OEM/ODMs and Carrier service providers for all Embedded System Integration requirements. Our comprehensive services portfolio encompassing all aspects of embedded systems development bundled with our rich suite of Middleware software enablers helps in significantly accelerating time to market.

Vertical Specific offerings:

Semiconductors and embedded systems play a critical role in various industries that have different requirements and market dynamics. Our services and solutions have been optimized for various industries to help them imagine, develop, validate, certify and deploy next generation products.

Automotive

Our offerings in the automotive space help our customers realize next generation In Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) solutions.

We offer the following services in the automotive domain:

1. High end Human Machine Interface (HMI) development
2. IVI Integration & Validation
3. Content Streaming & Compression Solutions 
4. Short Range Wireless connectivity enablement
5. Hardware (HW) Reference platform development

In order to accelerate the development of IVI solutions to reduce time to market, our customers can leverage the following software enablers that we offer in the automotive space:

1. MirrorLink Client & Miracast Sink Stacks
2. DLNA & Streaming stacks (MPEG DASH, Http Live Streaming (HLS), Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), Progressive Download (PD), Microsoft Smooth Streaming (MSS))
3. Next Generation IVI SDK

Connectivity Solutions:

Our wireless Connectivity solutions covering Cellular (2G/3G/HSPA+/LTE), WiFi, Bluetooth & Location technologies have three focus areas:

1. Interoperability

Our Interoperability lab services helps address the challenge of testing devices with the multitude of peer devices available in the market. Our in-house automation suite for connectivity validation ensures that test cycles are executed quickly even for large device repositories.

2. Pre-certification

Our pre-certification services help achieve significant savings in time and cost while preparing devices for the certification process. We have the requisite expertise necessary for pre-certification of all cellular and short range connectivity protocols and also support a lab for WiFi pre-certification.

3. Integration

We help our customers integrate wireless interface to their embedded products by leveraging our expertise across all layers of the connectivity software stack. We have experience working with drivers, IPC mechanisms between the Host and Controller chipsets, protocol stacks, middleware and applications across various technologies like Cellular 2G/3G/HSPA+/LTE, WiFi, Bluetooth & Location

IoT Solutions

We offer the following services and software for the IoT domain:

1. End-to-End Integration

Any IoT solution has several moving parts starting from the device and extending right upto the cloud applications and data analytics. The end-to-end chain includes short range and long range connectivity pieces as well as middleware that provide the necessary conduit for device-to-cloud communication; Sysmetlab has comprehensive expertise in this domain and can provide cross-functional teams that can help integrate End-to-End IoT solution including billing and subscriber provisioning that would typically apply in an operator environment. Sysmetlab has worked on such end to end integration in the Smart Energy and Consumer device space.

2. Adaptable Gateway Frameworks

As IoT becomes all pervading, the greatest challenge lies in connecting a variety of southbound devices to a variety of North-bound service and application frameworks. Sysmetlab addresses this challenge through a highly adaptable gateway framework that can interact with a variety of southbound protocols and interface them to a variety of North-bound frameworks (ETSI, OpenADR, SIP etc). The gateways address multiple industry segments and possesses the necessary intelligence to adapt to the environment and pick the right components to enable end to end service.

Content Streaming & Compression Solutions 

Multimedia delivery to the end user is an integral part of every device. The final customer experience is dictated by the performance and reliability of the multimedia pipeline in an embedded device. Sysmetlab has the expertise and high performance software components that can ensure optimal customer experience.

Our offerings in this space comprise:

1. A rich portfolio of multimedia components such as audio, video and image codecs that have been optimized to deliver the best performance on ARM and Intel platforms
2. Feature rich Protocol stacks and frameworks that implement streaming and VoLTE technologies and are capable of integration across multiple Operating Systems (OS) and processor platforms
3. Our System Integration Services to help debug and fix issues including performance bottlenecks in the multimedia pipeline

Platform Engineering

The term Platform Engineering encompasses the entire process of device realization from System Design to System Validation. Our rich experience and expertise in all these areas, enables us to accelerate product development and provide highly scalable customer support services.

We have the following offerings in the platform engineering domain:

1. Hardware design and development services that include system design, board design, power & thermal design, industrial &mechanical design, board and mechanical enclosure manufacturing, hardware verification testing, Pre-compliance and compliance testing.
2. Value engineering services with a focus to reduce cost encompasses services such as redesign for different geographies, redesign for different form factors and feature enhancements
3. OS Porting and driver development services including porting of different types of Operating System (OS) (RTOS & non-RTOS) platforms such as Linux, Android, uC/OS-II and ThreadX etc. on newer chipsets.
4. Middleware & application development services that help deliver the true value of any platform to the end user
5. System Integration, System Debug & System Validation services that are essential to transforming a platform from an alpha release state to a robust production quality platform.
6. Customer Support services to triage issues reported by customers and identify root cause of a problem in the system.
7. Test Automation framework and validation suite that has the ability to automatically execute test cases at different layers like driver layer, hardware abstraction layer and OS middleware layer to ensure robustness of the platform   

Silicon Design

Sysmetlab’s silicon design offering is packaged to help customers offload their complete derivative design product line to Sysmetlab. While customers’ team focuses on Next generation architectures, Node research, and new product development etc., Sysmetlab’s Silicon design team helps in scaling the customer team to handle derivative design of their legacy products. Sysmetlab’s team brings highly skilled engineers who can handle all facets of a derivative Product development:

1. Requirement definition
2. Architecture definition
3. Area/Power/Performance analysis and optimization
4. Soc Integration
5. Soc Verification/Emulation
6. RTL to GDSII (Register Transfer Level to GDSII stream format where GDS is Graphic Data System)
7. Interfacing with Silicon Manufacturing houses
8. Reference Board design development
9. Post Silicon Validation
10. Reference Platform & Middleware stack development
11. PoC Application framework development
12. Test framework development

World class infrastructure and partnerships

Our well-equipped lab infrastructure can handle all validation requirements from Silicon/System Validation to compliance testing and pre-certification testing. We host and operate the best in class labs for testing wireless interfaces like Wifi, Bluetooth, Cellular protocols etc.

Our extensive partnerships with a wide variety of industrial segments such as EDA tool vendors, Industry Forums, Software component providers, Semicon players, OS platform providers, Industry Alliances etc. enables us to provide best in class components and helps us ensure industry readiness of our customers’ solutions.

Some key partnerships:

Why Sysmetlab:

• More than 20 engagements with semiconductor vendors including multiyear partnerships with some of the largest semiconductor vendors in the world
• Software that has been integrated on platforms from world’s leading semiconductor vendors—including Intel, ARM, Qualcomm, Broadcom, TI, Freescale, Marvell, Mindspeed and Tensilica
• Collaboration with leading SoC and tool vendors
• A unique combination of comprehensive services and more than 125 enabling software and frameworks
• Readily available, highly skilled experts who have deep technology domain expertise across skill sets
• Multiple labs across the globe and throughout solution areas such as connectivity, automotive, home-energy/smart-energy, multimedia, wireless and datacenter

Benefits:

• Significant reduction in time to market through comprehensive services and 125 + licensable software portfolio which can be leveraged to reduce development and testing time
• Drastic reduction in development costs of 10% to 50%
• Global delivery model for optimized cost and delivery
• Best-in-class quality processes and certifications to ensure highest customer satisfaction
• Detailed change management and transition processes for maximum efficiency and productivity