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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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...

Sondrel has just completed its third 28nm design this year - for a leading communications company – and is closing on two more at this node. Although Sondrel has worked on over 200 IC designs at all nodes down to 20nm, and chip sizes over 700mm², the fact that the company has so many successful tape-outs at 28nm convinces CEO Graham Curren that 28nm will be the preferred geometry for complex chips for some time to come.

Sondrel, the global design services and consultancy for the semiconductor industry, today demonstrated commitment to the Chinese semiconductor market by expanding its business in Shanghai, China. The office opening was attended by Mark Prisk, the UK Minister for Business and Enterprise.

Sondrel, the leading European physical implementation IC design house, was today presented with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category by the Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire, Mary Bayliss.

Sondrel, the European physical implementation IC design house, has today been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category. The award is the result of the company’s success – due in part to the flexible design methodology it has developed for managing costs and durations of projects, and a software environment that allows switching between third party tools for optimum results whilst incorporating debug and mana...