SICAN Microelectronics

Partner Profile

Overview

SICAN GmbH, headquartered in Hannover, Germany, is a microelectronics design company specializing in communications, multimedia and networking applications. Its technical staff and infrastructure form an organization with the flexibility and innovation to meet the rapidly changing design needs of its customers.

As a full-service design house, SICAN functions like other American design houses, offering IC development services. The company has expertise in classical ASIC development using gate array and standard cell architectures. It has over 200 designs which have been implemented in various companies and acts as an authorized design center for several world-class ASIC vendors.

SICAN has developed advanced core expertise in topics such as MPEG video and audio encoding and decoding, high-speed networking, broadband media access, and mixed-signal design. SICAN's intellectual property is aggregated in cores called DesignObjects^TM, which are licensed to companies creating systems-on-silicon. It also has a staff of over 300 employees, making it one of the largest independent design houses which licenses its intellectual property. This impressive design force allows SICAN to offer the highest quality, customer specific designs as well as reduce their time-to-market.

AllianceCORE Products

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The AllianceCORE Products Table shows AllianceCORE products available from SICAN Electronics. Adobe Acrobat versions of the datasheets for these can be downloaded from the table. Contact SICAN for pricing.

Product	Functional Description
Standard Bus Interfaces
CAN BUS	CAN BUS Interface R3.0

Areas of Technical Expertise The following table of products demonstrates additional SICAN Microelectronics areas of technical expertise. Xilinx and SICAN are in the process of evaluating these to determine which are suitable as AllianceCORE products. If you have a need for a specific product then contact SICAN for information or availability.

Product	Functional Description	Gates
DSP Functions
DES	Data Encryption Standard (DES)
Communications and Networking
Reed-Solomon Decoder	Reed-Solomon Decoder
UTOPIA	UTOPIA Interface
Base-Level Functions
Pulse-Width Modulator	Pulse-Width Modulator
IIC Slave Interface	IIC Slave Interface
HDLC	HDLC

Contact SICAN Microelectronics

SICAN Microelectronics Corp.
400 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 512
South San Francisco, CA 94080 USA
Phone: +1 650-871-1494
Fax: +1 650-871-1504
E-mail: info@sican-micro.com
URL: www.sican-micro.com

SICAN GmbH
Garbsener Landstrasse 10
Hannover
D-30419, Germany
Phone: +49 511-277-1491
Fax: +49 511-277-2490
E-mail: info@sican-micro.com
URL: www.sican.de

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