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Cologne Chip AG

Cologne Chip AG is a forward-thinking semiconductor company renowned for its state-of-the-art FPGA and ASIC IP core solutions. With a focus on providing innovative and high-performance products, they cater to a diverse range of industries, including telecommunications, automotive, and aerospace. Their flagship product, the GateMate FPGA, exemplifies their dedication to excellence in programmable logic technology, offering unparalleled power efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The company's commitment to open-source development is evident in their fully open and license-free toolchain for the GateMate FPGAs. This toolchain simplifies the design process, enabling users to benefit from fast build times and seamless integration with other open-source platforms. Moreover, Cologne Chip's strategic partnership with GlobalFoundries ensures the high quality and reliability of their products, produced using advanced 28nm Super Low Power process technology. Cologne Chip's ASIC IP cores, under the C³IP brand, highlight their expertise in digital circuit design for telecommunications. These cores are designed using DIGICC technology, which replaces traditional analog components with flexible digital implementations, resulting in cost savings and increased design versatility. The innovative approach of Cologne Chip AG in both FPGA and ASIC domains positions them as leaders in the semiconductor industry, providing robust and flexible solutions to meet modern technological demands. Read more

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C3-CODEC-G712-4 Audio Codec

The C3-CODEC-G712-4 from Cologne Chip is a sophisticated audio codec designed to deliver high-quality sound processing for telecommunications and other audio applications. Utilizing the innovative DIGICC technology, this codec bypasses traditional analog components, offering a fully digital solution that is both cost-effective and adaptable to modern digital systems. This audio codec stands out with its ability to process robust audio signals efficiently, maintaining clarity and precision in sound output. Its digital implementation allows for seamless integration into diverse digital architecture, providing engineers with the flexibility to tailor solutions to specific application needs while reducing complexity and cost. Designed to meet the stringent requirements of telecommunication systems, the C3-CODEC-G712-4 supports the G.712 standard, enabling high-fidelity voice encoding and decoding. This ensures exceptional sound quality for voice communication applications, making it an excellent choice for ISDN, VoIP, and other telecommunication platforms that demand reliable and crystal-clear audio performance.

Cologne Chip AG
ADPCM, AMBA AHB / APB/ AXI, Audio Controller, Coder/Decoder, JPEG, USB
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GateMate FPGA

The GateMate FPGA from Cologne Chip AG is a power-efficient family of FPGAs designed for a variety of small to medium-sized applications. Specifically engineered to provide remarkable logic density, these devices ensure cost-competitive solutions while maintaining compact sizing. GateMate FPGAs boast features such as power efficiency and easy PCB integration, making them particularly suitable for both educational and high-volume industrial applications. These devices are also available in stock for mass production, offering immediate availability for urgent projects. Built on GlobalFoundries' advanced 28nm Super Low Power (SLP) process technology, the GateMate FPGAs ensure high performance alongside energy efficiency. The architecture centers around an efficient 8-input LUT-tree, which optimizes resource utilization for complex logic processing. Furthermore, GateMate devices incorporate scalable multipliers and 8-input multiplexers, granting enhanced arithmetic capabilities and flexible data routing, especially appealing for DSP and filter applications. Another standout feature of the GateMate series is its instant-on configuration, which enables quick readiness for application deployment. The FPGAs support a diverse range of interfaces, including a high-speed serial interface with line rates reaching up to 5 Gbit/s, and robust built-in reliability enhancements like a bitstream scrubber for heightened fault tolerance. These attributes make the GateMate FPGA an ideal choice for applications across industrial, automotive, and high-demand telecommunications sectors.

Cologne Chip AG
GLOBALFOUNDRIES
28nm
Processor Core Dependent
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C3-PLL-2 Phase-Locked Loop

Cologne Chip's C3-PLL-2 is an advanced Phase-Locked Loop designed to meet the high-precision timing requirements of modern digital systems. This ASIC IP core leverages DIGICC technology, which facilitates a completely digital solution, avoiding the complexities associated with traditional analog designs. The C3-PLL-2 is particularly suitable for telecommunications where precise clock management is crucial for system reliability and performance. By incorporating this digital PLL into designs, engineers can achieve optimal frequency synthesis with reduced component count and improved integration capabilities. The core's flexibility allows for easy adaptation across various applications, making it a versatile choice for different system configurations. This approach not only streamlines the design process but also offers cost savings by reducing the need for external components. Ideal for use in telecommunications and other high-precision applications, the C3-PLL-2 helps maintain synchronization and timing accuracy across complex digital circuits. Its integration capabilities are further enhanced by Cologne Chip's innovative digital-centric design methodology, ensuring compatibility with existing digital infrastructures and paving the way for next-generation applications with enhanced performance metrics.

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Clock Synthesizer, PLL
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TDC (Time-to-Digital Converter) Core

Cologne Chip's Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) Core is a precision digital timing analysis solution that transforms time intervals into digital values. Utilized heavily in telecommunications and precise timing systems, the TDC core offers outstanding measurement resolution capabilities, which are critical for applications requiring exact time interval measurements. The TDC core provides a fully digital solution, integrating seamlessly into modern digital architectures and offering significant advantages over traditional analog timing circuits. This digital approach reduces errors introduced by noise and temperature variations, ensuring accurate measurement even in fluctuating environmental conditions. Its high sensitivity and resolution open opportunities for using it in time-critical applications like network synchronization and digital oscilloscopes. Flexible and versatile, the TDC Core allows integration into various digital systems, providing engineers with a reliable method for timing analysis across a wide range of applications. Whether it's embedded in complex telecommunications infrastructure or used in cutting-edge research facilities, the TDC core is an invaluable component in precision measurement technology.

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UniqueID PUF Core

The UniqueID PUF Core developed by Cologne Chip is a security-focused semiconductor solution that leverages Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) to generate unique identifiers for hardware components. This core is crucial in enhancing security and protecting intellectual property in electronic devices, offering a robust mechanism for anti-counterfeiting and secure authentication. PUFs utilize inherent manufacturing variations in semiconductor devices to produce a distinct digital fingerprint, unique to each chip, that cannot be replicated or predicted. This intrinsic randomness provides a high level of security, as even identical chips manufactured under identical conditions will exhibit distinct PUF responses. Suitable for integration into diverse security applications, the UniqueID PUF Core facilitates secure key generation, hardware-based authentication, and protection against unauthorized access and tampering. Its digital interface allows easy incorporation into modern digital systems, ensuring a wide applicability across consumer electronics, automotive, and IoT devices that demand reliable security measures.

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Embedded Security Modules
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