Why ASIC ?

The reasons for using application-specific ICs are manifold:

• Protection of a company's internal know-how, stable reproducibility, quantity-related competitive advantages comparing to FPGA, µC, DSP and discrete solutions

• High processing performance, functionality and parallel processing

• Single-chip solutions, miniaturization, on-site signal processing, signal integrity

• Use as on-board chip and integration capability with hybrid and multi-chip modules

• Substitution and parameter improvement of standard ICs subject to phasing out.

How to the ASIC ?

An almost unlimited range of components that can be integrated and circuit parameters that can be achieved calls for a comprehensive system know-how already during the project planning phase for an ASIC in order to achieve the optimum ratio between technical performance and costs for the given application. System and ASIC specialists are at your disposal in order to advise you already during the crucial specifications phase. The optimum ASIC concept is then developed in joint discussions.

We offer you one-stop services for everything you need for an ASIC: consulting, design, prototypes and organization of the series delivery of your ASIC. Our knowledge and skills as an ASIC design center permanently grew during the past ten years parallel to the progress in the field of silicon technologies, and out state-of-the-art equipment perfectly matches advanced semiconductor technologies world-wide. What's more, our in-house PCB production enables board deliveries and/or complete hardware assembly, testing and diagnosis. Our measuring laboratory offers support parallel to development in order to ensure compliance with all relevant standards (EMC, for example) for your hardware development because our experience shows that a successful ASIC project is always closely linked to the underlying application.

Selection of available technologies in CMOS and BiCMOS

MPW-Service

The Multi Project Wafer Service is the most cost-effective way of getting one's own ASIC. With this method, the ASICs of several customers are arranged on one wafer, with the once-off costs for the technological cycle and the production masks being shared by the individual customers on a pro-rata basis. Sample quantities are produced at defined times and at defined, surface-related rates. This approach strongly reduces the risk of mispreparations, in particular, for analog and mixed-signal ICs.

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FPGA system development

Programmable gate arrays - the fast way for integrating your digital circuits for product and prototype development. 

FPGAs and CPLDs are complex, digital components with customized functions. One distinguishes between components with multi-programming capability, such as the S-RAM-based FPGAs and CPLDs by XILINX, and once-off-programmable ones, such as the antifuse FPGAs by ACTEL.

Benefits from using FPGAs

• Short time to market
• Good cost-to-benefit ratio

• Low-risk implementation of prototypes and series-scale quantities of integrated digital circuits

• Flexible response to circuit changes
• Fast prototype development for a planned ASIC application
• FPGAs enable high integration and open up additional functionality

Our services for you: 

• using the given requirements profile as the basis, joint development of the relevant functional description / joint circuit design

• Selection of the appropriate FPGA

• Implementation of the digital circuit in the FPGA and support when the samples are put into operation

• FPGA prototype development for ASIC projects, as well as implementation of existing FPGA designs in the optimum ASIC technology, transfer to the ASIC manufacturer

• Manufacture, programming and delivery of sample circuits and sample boards

Technical specifications: 

• system frequencies of up to 100 MHz are possible
• 5V / 3.3V types are available.

Development and test of sRAM – based FPGA´s

	FPGA – Board  8 - layers - circuit board with superfine conductor technology  PCI and RS 232 interfaces Atmel - microcontroller for board control  assembled with a maximum of 3 Virtex XCV 400 ...1000