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Sondrel

  • Asmec Centre, Merlin House, Brunel Road Theale, Reading, Berkshire,
    RG7 4AB
    United Kingdom
  • +44 118 902 6820
  • http://www.sondrel.com
  • +44 870 458 0742

Sondrel is a fast growing UK headquartered and privately owned IC Design Consultancy. We operate from ISO27001 compliant design centers in 5 locations across Europe and Asia. We are continuously investing in our design capabilities and introducing new areas of consultancy as the semiconductor market itself evolves and changes.

Sondrel Articles

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Design
8th April 2021
Sondrel launches reference platforms for faster ASIC design

Sondrel has announced the second in its family of reference designs for ASICs that provide a framework to support a customer’s own IP, which results in a faster time to market and lower risk. The SFA250A is aimed at Functional Safety (FuSa) applications such as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and contains an independent FuSa monitor compliant to ISO 26262 ASIL D - ASIC Safety Subsystem (ASS).

Design
18th March 2021
Sondrel designs its first Radiation-Hard chip

Sondrel is designing its first radiation-hard (Rad-Hard) chip for a customer which is due to tape out shortly. The satellite modem will be used in communication satellites and therefore has to be able to withstand the challenges of the high levels of ionising radiation found in orbit that can cause glitches.

Appointments
9th March 2021
Sondrel appoints new Regional Sales Director

Sondrel has expanded its European team with Pascal Cintract, as its Regional Sales Director for Central and Southern Europe.

Latest
5th March 2021
Sondrel appoints Redtree as representative in Israel

Israel is a hot bed of innovation, with many technology companies having offices there, along with a very strong start-up culture. As this means there is a greater demand for ASIC design resources than can be met locally, Sondrel has appointed Redtree Solutions as its local representative for its design services.

Design
2nd March 2021
Family of reference designs launched to reduce design costs

Sondrel has launched a family of reference designs that could reduce design costs, risk and time by up to 30% compared to starting from scratch. The company has drawn on its experience of designing hundreds of ASICs to create a set of key reference designs that each provide a fast design time for high growth markets.

Latest
15th February 2021
Sondrel launches recruitment drive to find over a hundred engineers

The sudden need of setting up staff to work from home due to COVID-19 lockdowns presented many challenges for companies around the world. Sondrel, however, had sorted these several years earlier to ensure that all its staff could work flexibly and securely from home. As a result, business is booming and it is now actively seeking over 100 new engineers for its offices around the world.

Design
8th February 2021
Sondrel builds on 7nm design work to offer 5nm

As more and more foundries are offering 5nm, Sondrel has announced that it is supporting them with 5nm design work. This builds on it being one of the few design houses to have taped out a number of 7nm designs.

Design
25th January 2021
Bumps in BGA packages reduce SoC development lead times

Because Sondrel offers a full turnkey service of ASIC production from design through to shipping silicon, it knows what is happening with services at every stage of the manufacturing and test process. The company has noticed increased lead times for SoC package design and manufacturing, particularly for flip chip BGAs that could impact the overall project timelines.

Design
2nd November 2020
Sondrel announces tape-out of its largest chip design

Sondrel has announced the tape-out of its largest chip design for a customer. This has taken a team of up to 200 engineers working on it simultaneously at times to design the 500 square millimetre chip that has over 30 billion transistors, 40 million flipflops, and 23 thousand pads for I/O, power and ground.

Design
26th October 2020
Turnkey Service provides concept to shipping service for faster time to market

One of the biggest challenges for a company with a new idea for a chip is managing the whole chain from design through manufacturing and testing to shipping silicon. To solve this, Sondrel provides a full turnkey service that manages every stage of the process of taking a chip from concept to final silicon.

Design
1st October 2020
The secret of big digital chip design is all in the NoC

Sondrel is known for designing very large digital chips and the secret to lies in its ability to ensure that data flows around the chip between blocks correctly using a Network on Chip (NoC). Without a NoC, a chip could need up to ten times more memory to operate in a similar manner without latency, which would be uneconomical.

Design
28th August 2020
Sondrel innovating verification in chip design

An often-overlooked part of chip design is verification, according to Sondrel, as designing the front end of a chip is generally perceived as being the more interesting part. However, as Susan Mack, a Senior Engineering Manager at Sondrel, disagrees: “Verification is a very important part of the chip design process that can take up as much as 70% of the time.”

Design
29th July 2020
Electronic designers wanted to become chip architects

Designing a large complex chip is not simply question of connecting together a set of IP blocks according to Sondrel. There is actually considerable creativity required as well.

News & Analysis
6th March 2020
Will the new UK payroll tax impact the electronics industry?

One of Europe's largest independent IC design consultancy's, Sondrel, believes the electronics industry will be changed significantly by the UK’s new IR35 payroll tax change that comes into effect on 6th April 2020.

Design
20th June 2014
Sondrel takes security to new level

Sondrel is employing secure border computing technology from Zentera Systems to ensure IP protection with the minimum of impact on its customers’ IT infrastructure. Zentera's Hybrid Cloud Technologies enable IP to be securely accessed from diverse worldwide locations, ensuring that the best available design resources can be employed to get the project done on time at the best performance. 

Events News
17th June 2014
IC design consultancy to present at conference

Sondrel is to share its expertise at the forthcoming NMI conference "Accelerating Verification - faster, smarter?". Wayne Wu, Sonderl's Business Development Director of its Verification Services, will be giving the presentation at the conference, attended by members of the UK electronic systems, microelectronics and semiconductor industry. 

Events News
6th May 2014
DAC 2014 presentation to focus on 28nm SoC design

Delegates at the 2014 Design Automation Conference (DAC) will be able to share in the IC expertise of Sondrel, due to the company planning to give a presentation on 28nm SoC. The company's representative, Gianvito Lorusso, will ead the presentation and give an insight into his team’s experience with a six billion transistor design for a 28nm SoC.

Events News
11th March 2014
Sondrel to participate in two Mentor Graphics events

System-to-silicon IC design consultancy Sondrel will be participating in two Mentor Graphics events, one in the USA and the other in Israel. Sondrel has a strong partnership with Mentor Graphics, as with other leading EDA tools vendors, and its IC design engineers have successfully completed over 200 complex designs in advanced process geometries down to 14nm. 

Analysis
19th December 2013
Sondrel doubles workforce and moves to new HQ

Following a succesful 2013, IC design consultany, Sondrel, has announced a move to a new corporate headquarters. Doubling their workforce to almost 150 over the past 12 months, Sondrel now has the largest team of IC design engineers and consultants in Europe, with expertise covering all aspects of the design flow and EDA software suites.

Events News
3rd October 2013
Sondrel shares system-to-silicon IC design expertise at U2U

Sondrel is presenting two papers at Mentor Graphics’ User2User Conference on October 17 in Munich. Sondrel’s close partnerships with customers, tools vendors, IP suppliers and foundries has resulted in over 200 completed designs, including highly-complex digital, mixed signal, analogue, low power and wireless ICs in process geometries down to 20nm. Two of Sondrel’s highly experienced IC designers will be sharing their experience...

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