Holman Technology Solutions

Expertise In ASIC Turnkey & Offshore Design Resources with Foundry Access

At Holman Technology Solutions, we specialise in turning complex ideas into streamlined, market-ready solutions that align with our clients’ timelines and business goals. Our collaborative approach adds value at every stage of development — from system architecture and logic design to software integration, IP selection, and full hardware delivery.

Working with a wide network of trusted partners, we’re able to select the best-in-class tools, technologies, IP, and manufacturing capabilities to create fully verified, production-ready platforms. Our flexible engagement model allows us to adapt to each project’s unique needs, offering a cost-effective, low-risk alternative to traditional ASIC development paths.

By leveraging our deep industry experience and strong global partnerships — including access to world-leading Foundries and niche technology providers — we ensure our clients benefit from top-tier expertise across the entire development lifecycle. Our mission is to support your innovation from concept through to customised device delivery, with dedicated guidance every step of the way.

Full Turnkey ASIC Services:

  • Project follow-up expertise
  • Design House (Spec to Silicon & Turnkey ASIC capability)
  • Local (EU) and Offshore Design House Services and Application Expertise
  • Analog Mixed Signal and Digital expertise
  • TMSC 180nm to single digit nm Technology Nodes, and other Foundries
  • Foundry Prototyping to Turnkey Production Services
  • Packaging/Test House for prototyping & Mass Volume
  • Devices Qualification (AECQ-100, Medical, MIL…)

Target Applications:

  • Telecom
  • IoT
  • Consumer Devices
  • Automotive
  • Industrial/ Medical/Scientific
  • Computing/Datacentre HyperScalar

Silicon Engineering

Customized ASIC & SoC Solutions With Optimized Cost

Our partner SmartSoCs specialize in providing cutting-edge Silicon Engineering services tailored to meet the diverse needs of our clients. With a team of experienced engineers and state-of-the-art infrastructure, we offer comprehensive solutions spanning the entire spectrum of silicon design and development.

Our company is not just a service provider, but a collaborative partner dedicated to delivering tailored solutions and supporting clients throughout their silicon engineering endeavours. We have over 50+ customers and completed more than 450+ projects successfully. This reflects a commitment to teamwork, expertise, and the shared pursuit of success in the realm of silicon technology.

Driving customer transformation in the age of new-technology drivers such as AI and IoT has become challenging. With an increasing demand for connected electronics, devices, and more, chipmakers are struggling to meet production and supply leading to delays in delivery.

Modernise your semiconductor space using our smart product engineering, silicon, embedded technology, and data analytic solutions. Enhance fabs with IoT, 5G, digital twins, and more to take the guesswork out of chip-making on a large scale. From SOC development, virtual and physical prototyping, to IC testing & validation and board design, we have the expertise to cover all production needs.

IDEA to Spec 

Digital Twin 

Architecture

As a premier chip design consultancy globally, we possess the exceptional ability to scrutinize novel chip concepts and furnish exhaustive Architectural Study reports. These reports not only outline the pathway to realization but also provide accurate cost estimations. With a rich portfolio of designing numerous chips, we leverage our extensive experience to propose viable strategies, requisite technologies, and per-chip cost breakdowns. Even at the preliminary stage, our swift cost assessments offer valuable insights into the project’s viability.

During the nascent conceptualization phase, most companies grapple with uncertainties regarding the time and expenses involved in chip development. SmartSoC’ s meticulously crafted high-level cost plans have proven indispensable, aiding companies in refining specifications and optimizing features to meet predefined pricing targets.

In today’s landscape, the intricate nature of System-on-Chip (SoC) designs renders traditional spreadsheet-based architecture tools ineffective. They often lead to frequent redesigns, especially to meet stringent power and performance targets, consequently driving up costs and causing delays in Time-to-Market (TTM).

Enter Platform Architect, equipped with the largest repository of architecture models and swift capabilities in capturing task and trace-based software workloads. With Platform Architect expertise we proactively shift-left in your architecture design approach, ensuring timely delivery of precisely the right product.

Prototype Design

SmartSoC Solutions offers essential services to semiconductor and electronic product companies seeking to implement a virtual prototype-based development approach. With a wealth of experience from numerous successful deployments, SmartSoC stands as a leader in the industry, providing unparalleled expertise.

From tool and methodology training to crafting architecture models and developing full virtual prototypes, SmartSoC enables organizations to optimize their deployment strategies. Our aim is to ensure the success of your initial projects. These services are integral parts of our comprehensive Virtual Prototyping Solution, which includes tools, models, and tailored services to meet your specific requirements.

Leveraging extensive production experience, SmartSoC’s Emulation services offer comprehensive support in assisting customer teams and executing customer designs across various emulation flows. Our approach involves constructing a customized services plan, drawing from a range of offerings tailored to meet the organization’s specific goals.

Spec to bug-free HDLs 

RTL Design & Verification

Smartsocs’ RTL design engineers bring extensive expertise across various facets of RTL design flow, catering to industries like networking, processors, multimedia, mobile, and automotive.

Our team skilfully balances contemporary design techniques with standard IPs, backed by experience ranging from 2 to 10 years, handling designs up to multi-million gates. This proficiency has established Smartsoc Solutions as the go-to RTL design services provider for highly complex Semiconductor Industry projects.

Working closely with the architecture team, our engineers define micro-architectures for DSP core blocks and develop RTL for multiple logic blocks and subsystems, seamlessly integrating them into SoCs. They utilize a range of frontend tools to ensure linting and clock domain crossing compliance.

Moreover, our RTL Design Engineers collaborate with the physical design team to set design constraints and achieve timing closure. They also work with the low-power team to optimize power usage and coordinate efforts with the verification team, contributing to robust test plan development, coverage analysis, and closure.

Drawing on robust expertise in Design Verification, associated tool flow, SoC verification languages (HVL), ASIC Prototyping, and post-silicon validation, SmartSoC offers invaluable support to clients in crafting error-free designs and accelerating time-to-market.

As a proven partner, SmartSoC has forged strong collaborations with businesses worldwide, establishing dedicated design and verification ODCs for semiconductor product companies. Furthermore, SmartSoC delivers a diverse portfolio of custom verification IPs tailored for standard interfaces across multiple industries.

Best PPA & First Pass 

RTL2GDS

At SmartSoC Solutions, our team of technical experts spans the entire spectrum from RTL to GDSII, ensuring comprehensive support at every stage of SoC development. With well-established internal processes, methodologies, and workflows, we’re equipped to tackle any specification or existing design, delivering end-to-end services from RTL integration to physical design and tape-out.

Quality and functional integrity are paramount in our approach. To uphold these standards, we have dedicated processes, an experienced project management team, and a skilled senior core team, supported by one of the industry’s finest engineering teams with a proven track record of successfully taping out multiple designs.

Key Features:

  • Expertise in complete SoC tape-out
  • Comprehensive services covering RTL integration, IP and SoC verification, STA and Synthesis, Physical Design, and DFT
  • A team of seasoned technical experts proficient across all stages from RTL to GDSII
  • Established internal workflows and best practices, ensuring efficiency and high-quality results.
  • Implementing Hierarchical Design with multiple Partitions
  • Ownership and Development of Constraints
  • STA and Timing Closure Across Multiple Modes/Corners
  • Integration of Power Collapsible Blocks (Power Gates, UPF)
  • Strategies for Crosstalk Immune Bus Routing and Optimization

Analog Design & Layout

SmartSoC stands out as a premier ASIC analog design service provider, renowned for its excellence in analog mixed-signal design services. Our team of designers possesses extensive expertise spanning various analog domains, including RF design, power management, high-speed communications, data converters, clock generation, reference generation, and temperature sensors.

Our breadth of experience encompasses a wide range of technologies, covering bulk CMOS, Bi-CMOS, FinFET, and SOI processes sourced from multiple foundries. Additionally, we are adept at working with leading-edge feature sizes, ensuring that our designs meet the highest industry standards and performance requirements.

Quality Samples Delivery 

IC Packaging & Testing

As semiconductor manufacturing processes continue to advance, chip designs are evolving towards lighter, thinner, and three-dimensional heterogeneous integration, requiring higher precision and speed to enhance manufacturing productivity. At SmartSoC, we have successfully navigated these trends, handling everything from simple to highly complex package designs to deliver optimal performance to our clients.

IC Package design plays a pivotal role in chip and package development, and our expertise in this area is unmatched. We have engineered some of the most advanced, high-performance packages in the market for our industry-leading clients. With a proven track record, SmartSoC has executed package designs across a wide spectrum of packaging solutions, ensuring excellence in every project.

Bug Free Designs 

Validation & Certification

As part of our Post-Silicon Validation (PSV) services, we undertake the development of a comprehensive High-level Test Plan, which undergoes rigorous review by our design engineers. Our process involves crafting algorithms for various test flow design documents and code, ensuring thoroughness and accuracy.

At SmartSoC Solutions, we recognize that applying software validation techniques in PSV is paramount to overcoming challenges effectively. This approach not only streamlines the validation schedule but also enhances and monitors coverage requirements. We view this as more than just a technical skill—it’s an art.

Drawing on our expertise across the entire spectrum of silicon realization, we offer a wide range of silicon validation services to our customers. Our ultimate goal is to reduce schedule and cost for silicon validation while ensuring that the necessary functional coverage is achieved.

We provide a range of certification marks tailored to meet diverse requirements, instilling confidence throughout the semiconductor development supply chain. Our services encompass IPs designed for artificial intelligence applications, such as specialized DSPs that enhance computing operations by leveraging parallel data processing techniques.

Left Shift Verification 

Board & FPGA Design

We specialize in helping companies mitigate risks, reduce costs, and expedite design cycles through our highly skilled FPGA design team. Our team brings a wealth of expertise across a wide range of FPGA development areas.

  • High-Speed Data Acquisition (ADC/DAC)
  • Digital Signal Processing (DSPs)
  • Video Processing
  • High-Speed Bus Interfaces & Transceiver-based designs
  • AI/ML Applications
  • ASIC Proof of Concept (POC)
  • Pre & Post Silicon Validation
  • Complex designs spanning multi-million gates.

With our diverse skill set and extensive experience, we tailor our solutions to meet the unique requirements of each project, ensuring optimal performance and accelerated time-to-market for our clients.