Moving Beyond the BOM: Rochester Electronics’ Design, Product Replication, and System Analysis

Design and Product Replication Solutions

Rochester Electronics continues to invest in solutions to extend the life of semiconductor products to best support our customers. These investments include expansion of office space to better accommodate for our growing Design team and lab capabilities. The Rochester Design team has over 400 combined years of career experience spanning across all aspects of custom silicon Design and Development. Rochester specializes in the authorized porting of products from original fab processes. Our additional capabilities include:

DO-254 minor change classification
Rochester has completed several DAL-A projects
DO-178 compliance with 100% Software compatibility and no errata
Unique proof-of-duplication methodology
Electrical performance replication, including output edge-rate matching
Highly capable detailed signal integrity analysis
Legacy voltage ASIC designs for legacy FPGA replacement, supporting 3v and 5v
Leveraging fully owned LSI Logic ASIC technologies
ASIC designs for long-life systems
Creative board-level solutions enabling the continuation of long-life systems
Whole product analysis for long-term risk and support (Beyond the BOM)

Within Rochester’s Burnsville, MN, and Rockville, MD offices reside our labs that enable electrical device characterization of original devices, as well as our silicon replacement devices across temperature and voltage limits. For ported products, this results in matching IO performance, including edge-rates that ensure no new harmonics are introduced. Below is a customer-generated sample of edge-rate matching enabled by our lab analysis. Notice the precise edge alignment of this ported product ensures no new signal integrity concerns.

"Beyond the BOM” is a recent service where our Design Group performs a system BOM analysis looking for the following:

Architecture and product choices, even within a product line from an OCM
BOM alignment with OCM product longevity programs
Protocol adoption and standards adoption, which enables alternative products
Board layout methodology when using commodity products that are known to change rapidly
Recommended package selection
Recommended key product process fab selection compared to heartbeat products
Security and thoroughness of the product archive through to RTL, Constraints, and IP selection of the FPGA’s and ASIC products.

From new silicon implementations to board designs mitigating obsolescence, to our newly added “Beyond the BOM” service, the expertise and experience of The Design Team at Rochester Electronics is here to help you avoid costly extensive requalification. We work with our customers to deliver solutions that keep long-life systems moving.

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Learn more about the products that Rochester has replicated

White paper: Avoiding DO-254 Events: Major/Minor Change Classification

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