Consulting

Other Consulting and Technical Services

In addition to modem IC design, I can also provide the following services to chip designers, foundries, and EDA tool developers/vendors/distributors worldwide who are interested in the Chinese chip/VLSI market:

Sales and marketing incl Online marketing, Pre-studies and feasability studies

Technical support incl

Design Kits and Tool Support

Upgrading and secondary development

Trouble shooting

Localization (Software, Application Notes, Product Brochures, White Papers, Packaging Information etc )

particularly for EDA developers

Chip design outsourcing incl

Feasibility studies

Architecture and specification writing

RTL implementation and physical design

Circuit design and simulation

Analog and digital layout at cell, macro and block level

Physical design verification (DRC, LVS, ERC, DFM)

SRAM design (single and dual port SRAM and Register files)

Joint chip design in China for cost reduction and time to market speedup as well as to more adopt to local market

IP & SIP trading

China IC Monthly (CICM) Reports

The English language CICM reports are dedicated to international IC/VLSI/chip communities who want to have a first hand research and analysis about the Chinese chip industry and market on timely basis. This report is the only one of that kind available to foreign chip businesses, and covers key development areas such as (fundamental) research and development, design technology, eda vendors, foundries, testing, packaging, market, investment as well as key government policy, plans and programs in mainland China (excl. H.K. and Taiwan, ROC). This report was initiated as a result of our own studies of the chip technologies and industry, along with our fundamental researches (combinatorics and graph theory etc) in chip design and manufacturing in collaboration with research institutes and universities in China and other countries. The report was started upon the requests of our clients over the years. We also need these compilations for our own researches and development.

The CICM reports are prepared by the first class industry insiders, therefore I can assure you, once you own it, you will find it extremely worthwhile your investment and time reading and analyzing our reports. We know the Chinese chip industry that is undergoing drastic change right now. And like many other industry sectors, if you do not follow up it well on timely manner, you will loose your chance and market. Remember, China is the world's largest chip market therefore noone can afford to stay away from that market if he or she wants to be among the global players.

There is also a Chinese version for the Chinese chip designers, manufacturers and service companies who want to have a first hand info about the worldwide chip development, both traditional and novel tech (quantum, photonic, atomic, bio/DNA etc).

See ChinaICReports_Month_Intro.pdf (

World IC Technology Development Monthly Report

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This report is the only monthly report in the industry that timely reports the progress of various aspects of IC technology worldwide, involving the latest developments in the following areas:

Research on fundamental IC theories - research results of major universities and research institutions (including research institutions affiliated to large companies) in the world;

IC design: new IC design theory, algorithm, language, mode, software (EDA) and platforms, new IC design results

IC product development: development, testing and trial production of model products (before mass production)

IC manufacturing: new manufacturing technologies and new technology nodes (including main processes, materials, equipment, and software)

) for a quick view of how this report is designed.

In additional to the textual reports (with options of accompanying media files such as pictures, audio and video files), we're also delivering the socalled China IC Databases (CICD), which is presented as a form of MySQL databases as well as sectional presentations in pdf (R&D, designers,eda vendors, foundries, key equpment suppliers, testers and packagers, key investors and traders etc), with all necessary details for your further studies and contacts.

Stay informed with the Chinese IC industry with our above products and services.

Website for the Latest Information of the World's IC Technology & Industry

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I am developing a portal for the IC industry. Its aim is to provide users access to all key development on the research, development, design and manufacturing of IC technologies. Following contents will be covered:

Research on basic IC theory - research results of major universities and research institutions (including research institutions affiliated to large companies) in the world;

Chip design: new chip design theory, algorithm, language, model, software (EDA) and platforms, new chip design results, including IP cores;

Chip product development: prototype development, testing and trial production (before mass production);

Chip manufacturing: new manufacturing technologies and new technology nodes (including main processes, materials, processes, equipment, and software).

Users can get the latest technical information on this website. At present, the basic framework and codes of the website are basically completed, and parts of the contents are also published.

There is no similar website in the world.

In addition, the website has set up a special database about modem IP cores, and users can browse the basic information of the main modem IP cores, which is the introduction of the main contents of these IP cores. The main reason for designing such content is that I am specialized in design of modem IP cores, so I pay special attention to this part of the technology.

The other part of the website is to introduce the book about IP core design that I am writing now, in English, with the title "Silicon IP-More than just Design". The main reason for the slow progress in writing is that there is too much work to do:right now developing and maintaining websites, designing IP cores, writing reports on IC technologies, business contacts etc.

The website also introduces the "Monthly Report on World IC Technology Progress" being compiled by me as well.

The website has also designed a forum or blog, whatever you'd like to name it, waiting for you to settle in and publish your opinions.

There are also search functions, surveys, and user registration and user profile administration, and sections where there is a uploading of your own news (the progress of your company’s chip technology). The functionalities of the website will gradually be enriched and improved as the development goes ahead

If you are interested in participating in the website project, please feel free to contact me. You may invest in it, or promote the website somehow. However, the contents of the website are currently only in English and are geared towards English-speaking people. Whether the Chinese version will be added in the future depends on the situation. And the website cannot be accessed by domestic users for some reason.

My goal is to build the best network platform to introduce the world's chip technology progress. If you want to understand the chip technology, you only need to go to this platform, nothing more.

Site address: http://www.angelia.eu.org

Brief Introduction of my IC Studies

Why IC Technologies

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The reasons why I finally come to IC research is that, of all technologies now available in the world, IC technologies are playing the single most important role in human development now, and for the foreseeable days. Without it, we will return back to the mechnical times.

Previous Studies

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But I don't have the necessary prerequisites and capacity to conduct IC research, such as an expensive lab or a great team, therefore I have to satisfy myself with some mathematical studies in connection with IC technologies.

Of course, almost all math branches are useful in IC technologies, but what I am interested in mostly is the design stage, and particularly the physical design stage, and over there graph theory has been playing a big role, as such I have spent quite some time on graph theory for IC design.

My first topic was graph theory for channel routing, which is the last phase of the physical design and hence also the last phase of the entire chip design process. I have explored a great number of routing algorithms, particularly for FPGA based logic, but finally I decided not to pursue it further because I consider it a waste of time to focus on traditional, silicon based IC technologies, as it is approaching a scaling limit, that is, there is no way to improve the computing power after the CMOS scale reaches nanometer. In other words, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to produce more powerful processors based on the current silicon chips. Therefore one has to find new materials, new physics and new technologies.

And then I have tried a number of new generations of IC technologies, among them, quantum circuits, graphene based circuits, superconducting chips, resonant tunneling circuits, 3D ICs, spintronics based chips, to name a few. But I found that none of them are able to replace the current IC technologies, at least for the near future.

Nevertheless, I have studied somewhat intensively about the graph theory for quantum computing, and at that time I was particularly interested in the socalled Chimera graph applications to quantum computer, which was devloped by D-Wave, a Canadian quantum computer pioneer. In connection with Chimera graph was my indepth review of graph embedding and related branches of graph theory.

But this study was stopped about end 2017, when I determined to shift my focus from graph theory to really IC technologies.

Current Focuses

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After my studies of graph theory for IC technology was cancelled, I've decided to move on with my real IC technologies, and this time it is divided again into two parts: the new generations of IT technologies and the traditional, silicon based computer chips.

It is mentioned before that it seems no breakthrough will be achieved in the near future, however, whatever new generations of IC technologies are going to emerge, they must have something to do with quantum physics, because at the microscopic level, it is always quantum phenomenum which is playing a vital role in the working of the systems. Therefore, I decided to focus on quantum theory and quantum chips as the leading futuristic IC research direction. I plan to write an indepth review of quantum chips in the years to come, beginning with qubits - quantum bits over the next year or two.

On the other hand, I don't want to forget my expertise in silicon IC technologies, therefore since August 2017 I have been working on a design project, first for a hardware monitoring chip, and then recently for a satellite broadband Internet chip. I think satellite Internet will eventually replace the current cable and optical Internet, at least in long run, it will be a scene to come, just as the radio broadcasting has replaced the wired broadcasting many years ago.

For this design project, I have to learn a lot, incl. satellite communication, radio (wireless) communications, and radio frequency modulation and demodulation. My current design project is titled "Chip Design for Satellite Broadband Internet (Satnet). Part I: Modulator and Demodulator (Modem) IP Core". I am currently preparing for a document with the same title, and I hope in a couple of months, the design specifications and design entry will be completed, along with decision about technology of choice (FPGA based, ASIC or others) as well as design tools availability.

For more information about this design project, see 000terminals_indoorunits_modems_chips_toc.txt for details.

Future Plans

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The above studies, both quantum chips and satellite broadband Internet related chip design, will remain to be my future orientation of research and design, at least for a decade or so. I will try to write something in these topics, and design some chips or at least some IP cores, as it is a popular fashion now in the industry.

Of course, there are tremendous hurdles and difficulty ahead of my plans, but whatelse has no difficulty if you want to do something?

All the above studies, researches and designs are only my hobby, and I have no intention to commercialize my research and design, and no timetable for these activities and no time-to-market pressure. The only aim is to keep me, my knowledge, and my expertise updated with the development of one of the most important technologies of our age.

I am also well aware that I am far from being specialized in this field. There are a great number of people who are real specialists, both young and experienced. Nevertheless, I will continue my journey on this road and see if I can enjoy my studies someday, somehow.

I am doing all of my above researches on my spare time, because I have to earn a living for myself and as such I can only allocate very limited time to these researches and studies.

Other Expertise

As a longtime practitioner of IT technologies, I am skilled at major IT technologies, therefore I can provide a vast range of It services to you as well, whether it's coding in java, python or managing your databases, or it's web scraping or searching technologies. These expertise is also indispensable in chip design.

My other skills such as multilingualism will perhaps also benefit your company, and your business. Just pick one of my skills from the vast pools of my expertise, your company will be benefiting greatly.

For more information please read my resume (

) in English.

If you would like to talk about issues in the modem and IC business, here below are my contacts.

Mark Chen

Website:

http://www.angelia.eu.org

Emails:

markchen@xmail.net