Handshake Solutions is dedicated to developing innovative IC design solutions that meet changing market needs. We are the first to offer the market a proven methodology for designing self-timed circuitry that allows commercial exploitation of some of the key benefits of clockless technology; extremely low power consumption, low electromagnetic emissions and low ground bounce. What's more, our self-timed designs are easily integrated into complete systems. Useful for any embedded system, Handshake Solutions' technology and designs are particularly suited to automotive, smart card and wireless connectivity applications. The reliability and commercial validity of Handshake Technology have already been proven by many years of use in real design projects resulting in dozens of successful products and tens of millions of individual ICs in the market today.

Handshake Solutions is a Line of Business of Philips Electronics.

Handshake Solutions provides a complete suite of easy-to-use tools for the design of clockless circuits based on Handshake Technology. Compatible with standard EDA toolsets and back-end flows, the Handshake Technology design flow offers designers a high level of familiarity.

The flow is based on standard-cell libraries and allows selftimed designs to be created without dedicated asynchronous standard cells. Support for both scan-test-based Design-for-Test and FPGA prototyping is included - issues that have previously been problematic for self-timed solutions yet are vital for industrialization.

The HT80C51 is the second-generation Handshake Technology implementation of the ubiquitous 80C51 8-bit microcontroller. Functionally compatible with the original 80C51, it allows designers to leverage the vast existing software library available on the market. It is ideal for use in any 80C51 application, delivering improved performance at a significantly lower power level. This highly flexible block is capable of operating in either synchronous or asynchronous mode and is fully configurable with a growing range of peripheral functions.

As with all Handshake Technology implementations, the HT80C51 boasts minimal operational power consumption, zero stand-by power and immediate wake-up. This enables the maximum functionality to be squeezed into even the tightest energy budget and ensures optimal performance at any systemclock speed. Furthermore, very low electromagnetic emission (EME) levels and current peaks offer easy integration with RF and analog circuitry.

You want to get your clockless designs to market quickly then there's no quicker way than Handshake Solutions' design service. It can cut your time to market by up to 50%. So you receive a high-quality, fully optimized and qualified design fast.

Bring us your specification, and we will deliver a fully qualified design. It really is that simple. We've amassed the experience, so you don't have to. Obviously that means faster development, but it also ensures your design will be optimized to the perfect balance of performance, cost and power for your application.