At the heart of our innovative silicon proven LiquidIP technology is a system level approach to IC design. Instead of assembling ICs from a grouping of independent IP solutions, Rapid Bridge has developed a system of interdependent IP solutions that provides industry-leading performance with the lowest IC implementation risks. The combination of silicon proven Liquid IP building blocks coupled with an automated floor-planning tool yields a powerful design system where solution can be developed in metal (only) layers to create a System on Chip (SoC) solution within industry EDA tool flows.
LiquidIO supports over 40 industry standard interfaces with one common base IO cell. Each IO base cell is configured to one of the more than 40+ interface standards with a copper overlay cell, creating a truly flexible interface. LiquidIO and LiquidMXS solutions are controlled by a Central Calibration Unit that regulates voltage, current and impedances to improve signal quality and to reduce power/ground resources for ESD, Latchup and SSO
Mixed Signal solutions (PLLs, DLLs, Voltage Regulators, etc) with a common base footprint that can that can be copper configured to over 20+ mixed signal functions. LiquidMXS instances can reside in the IO Ring or the Core area
LiquidPHY offers complete PHY (DDR 2/3, RLDRAM2, GDDR, USB2.0, XGMII, SGMII, etc) solutions fully contained and embedded entirely within the IO ring for effortless and lower risk implementation. Embedding the PHY eliminates the need to fix the placement of IO & PHY until the late stages of the design implementation phase
LiquidCell comprise of an 700+ element standard cell library utilizing a Sea of Transistors array that is programmed with metal only (metal 1-3) logic cells utilizing industry standard EDA tools and flows.
LiquidMemory solution is a multi port Register File compiler targeted for memory instances up to 8K bits. As with our LiquidCell offering, LiquidMemory Register Files are copper overlays that can be placed anywhere within the Sea of Transistor array. With proper muxing of address and data lines, memory solutions up to 32k bits are achievable.
LiquidSerDes is a comprehensive Serial Link solution that is register programmable to address multiple standards and configurations. Each LiquidSerDes instance can be register configured to PCIe, SATA, Serial RapidIO, XAUI, CEI-6, Interlaken, Infiniband or Firbre channel interface standard. LiquidSerDes is composed of a Physical Layer (PHY) - SerDes, CDR, PLL, Physical Coding Sub-layer (PCS) and all the associated test features