Handshake Solutions started as a Philips research project in 1986.
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Since January 2003, Handshake Solutions is a business initiative in the Philips Technology Incubator
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On January 2004, Handshake Solutions became a Line of Business in the Philips Technology Incubator
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Partner with other IP providers
◆ ARM
◆ IBM Service Company ? Japan
◆ First Silicon Solutions
◆ Silicon & Software Systems Ltd.
◆ Bruco Integrated Circuits BV.
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Partner with other EDA providers
◆ Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor, Magma, Synplicity
What is Handshake Technology?
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A complete set of design tools that enables our customers to design clockless (Asynchronous) digital ICs where designs face critical issues such as power, noise, EME, and where shorter development cycles and improved time to-market are required
Product Introduction (4 Ways to serve our customers)
◆ Targeted at your ASIC design flow
◆ Compatible with standard EDA tools
◆ Supporting standard-cell (corelib) libraries
◆ C and behavioural Verilog like design
entry language called HASTE
◆ Automatic translation from design entry to Verilog Netlist
◆ Design-for-Test based on full scan
◆ FPGA prototyping through clocked handshake circuits
◆ Support for integration with synchronous blocks/systems
* Clockless 8bit CISC microcontroller IP blocks
* Functionally compatible with original Intel 8051
- Same instruction set
- Same peripheral functions available
- Timing compatible to synchronous 80C51 (optional synchronous mode)
- Standard software development tools, e.g. μVision IDE from Keil
* Choices for address ranges:
- HT80C51: 64KB code memory and 64KB data memory
- HT80C51MX: 8MB code memory and 8MB data memory
* Clockless 8bit microcontroller advantages
- Low power
- Low current peaks
- Low electromagnetic emission
- Zero power idle-mode
Although only recently available on the open market, Handshake Technology is already a very mature methodology. Its reliability and commercial validity have been proven by many years of use in real design projects resulting in dozens of successful products and hundreds of millions of individual ICs.
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Key customer and partners include, NXP semiconductors, The Boeing Company, ARM Ltd, IBM Japan Industrial Solutions Co. Ltd., and Silicon & Software Systems Ltd.
