WATERLOO, Ont. - San Jose-based electronics design services firm, Nuvation, has opened a design centre northwest of Toronto.
According to Michael Worry, CEO of Nuvation, Waterloo was selected for its available engineering talent, entrepreneurial spirit and familiar culture.
"Waterloo is a hub of innovation and home of the University of Waterloo (UW), one of the premier engineering schools in North America," Worry said in a release.
Nuvation provides accelerated chip, board, and software design services for the embedded systems industry. Its clients include industry leaders in communications, medical devices, defence/security, consumer devices, test and measurement and semiconductor markets. Staffed by four engineers at the new location, Nuvation plans to expand to some 30 engineers over time.
Nuvation, established in 1997, provides FPGA and ASIC design, printed circuit board (PCB) development, and embedded software design services. The Waterloo design centre will focus on the expanding FPGA logic design market, including developing licensable IP cores for FPGA and ASIC designs. Nuvation's current IP portfolio includes Ethernet over SONET (GEOS family of cores), Generic Framing Protocol (GFP), and ATA-4/5.
The market for field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and associated design services and IP cores has been soaring. Gartner's Semiconduc-tor Forecast Update 3Q 2004 estimates that the FPGA/Programmable logic device market will grow at a CAGR of 19.2 per cent between 2003 and 2008.
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