Our Partners

Alphacore

The Alphacore design team has extensive experience in delivering complete solutions for a diverse customer base, offering custom products and services that exceed performance requirements to fulfill applications needs. We can provide high performance data converter IP silicon proven on TSMC, GlobalFoundries and Trusted Foundries.  5GS/s, 10GS/s and 20GS/s ADC and DAC architectures.  Customizable to your end applications.  Suitable for sensing, automotive LiDar and Radar, satellite communications, defense and aerospace applications.  Radiation hardened options available as well.
Our engineers develop innovative analog and mixed-signal components that fit niche applications and their demanding needs perfectly.

Our focus areas are:

• Analog, Mixed Signal and RF Solutions
• Imaging Solutions
• Radiation Hardened Electronics
• Emerging Technologies

• Delta-Sigma
  • Consumer, IOT, Wearables
  • High Resolution, ultra low power
  • Lowest power up to a few MS/s

• Pipelined
  • Consumer, WiFi, Lidar
  • High Resolution, High Dynamic Range, Moderate power

• Hybrid SAR
  • Sat Comms, 5G, Automotive, Lidar, Exotic Compute
  • Highest Sample Rate, lowest power

• Parallel Flash
  • Sat Comms, 5G, Automotive
  • Low Resolution, Ultra-High Speed
  • Lowest power in the industry

Agile Analog

Agile Analog is transforming the world of analog IP, with our innovative solutions and subsystems for Data Conversion, Power Management, IC Monitoring, Security and Always-On IP.  Our customizable analog IP products do not have a pre-determined set of features and specifications. You specify the IP you want, to include all the features you need. We generate the IP you have specified: fully tested, fully documented, bug-free and fab-ready.

Using our configurable, multi-process analog IP technology you can:

• Work with any foundry, on any process and node
• Optimize your analog designs, simplify your SoCs
• Reduce the cost of custom development
• Regain control of your analog IP design flow
• Reduce the complexity of analog IP integration
• Bring analog on chip as you need it

EnSilica

EnSilica, a UK company founded in 2001, is a fabless ASIC supplier that designs and supplies digital & mixed signal ASICs for automotive/industrial, healthcare and communications markets.

With a staff of 156 >10% PhDs, Ensilica has expertise in System, RF, Analog, Mixed-Signal, Digital, Software Design, Verification, Test, Package development, Production & Supply Chain.

Committed to quality, EnSilica is ISO9001:2015 certified, is an ARM Approved Design and Function Safety Partner, and an Arm Center of Excellence. Ensilica is a TSMC DCA and GF Partner, and an approved supplier to 3 major automotive Tier 1s and one industrial OEM. EnSilica is is also a VCA-lite partner.

EnSilica has offices in Oxford (HQ), Wokingham (UK), Sheffield (UK), Bangalore (India) and Porto Algere (Brazil).

EnSilica have ASIC and design expertise in the following application areas:

• RF & Wireless:
  • RFIC design in CMOS, SiGe and BiCMOS
  • Low power GHz and sub-GHz radio design
  • Sub-1V operation
  • RFIC IP
  • Design of RF FE for LTE/5G, BT Classic/LE, WiFi, 802.15.6, NFC, DAB/FM, DVBS2X/RCS2
  • RF IP SoC integration
  • Custom radio designs
  • Safety & security critical proprietary radio
  • Optical communications
  • Rx/Tx
  • VCSEL/laser/LED drivers
  • Photodiode/APD receivers

• Sensing & Control:
  • Sensor Integration
  • Multiple sensor integration
  • Motion, magnetic, gases, respiration, thermal, humidity bio functions etc.
  • High voltage / automotive
  • High/low-side (36V) current-sense amplifier, 5 uVrms 0-10 kHz noise, >90dB CMRR
  • Trimmed for gain and offset stability over PVT
  • Designed for redundancy and compliance with functional safety goals
  • Low-power / low-noise
  • Voltage amplifiers for bio-signals, noise 100 nV/√Hz 0-100Hz, >90dB CMRR, 5 uA supply current
  • Transimpedance amplifier for gyro sensor, 100 fA/√Hz noise, precise phase response
  • Transimpedance amplifier for bio-signals, 10 pA/ √Hz noise, 100 uA supply current
  • Complex impedance measurement front-end

• Power Management:
  • Low-power SoC design
  • Multiple power modes
  • Energy scavenged
  • Low-power oscillators, PLLs
  • Power management
  • DC-DC, LDO
  • Voltage / Frequency scaling
  • With sub-1V operation, power gating
  • Custom logic and IO cell design including thick oxide libraries

• Healthcare and Medical:
  • Low power sensor interface for wearable healthcare and medical :
  • 3 lead ECG support
  • 2 pulsed photocurrent measurement inputs and drivers for
  • PPG (Heart Rate)
  • SpO2
  • NIRS (near infra-red spectroscopy)
  • Fluorescent glucose sensing (non[1]invasive to body tissue)
  • Body temperature sensor
  • Differential capacitive sensor
  • MEMS sensor interfacing
  • Complete with reference board and software

• Satellite RFICs
  • Ka band suitable for GEO, LEO
  • 17.2 to 21.2 GHz Rx
  • 27.5 to 30.0 GHz Tx
  • 4 Rx element paths
  • 4 Tx element paths
  • Ka-band fine gain and phase control
  • Integrated IQ frequency conversion
  • Comprehensive and flexible IQ IF/BB path to data converters
  • Low power operation VDDRF=1.1V
  • Logic at 1.8V
  • Support for large arrays
  • Analog, hybrid & digital beamforming
  • Small size WLCSP

• Digital and DSP
  • Systems/DSP expertise include
  • Modem design – BLE/DVB/DAB/WiFi
  • Remote Radio Heads - DDC/DUC
  • Advanced MIMO processing and beamforming
  • Advanced Radar signal processing
  • Cryptography
  • Development of efficient data-path designs
  • Integration of high speed interfaces
  • PCIe, USB, MIPI, CSI-2, CPRI, 1/25/10Gb Ethernet, LPDDR/DDR
  • Processor integration
  • Cores - Arm, Cadence Tensilica, MIPS
  • AMBA - AHB/AXI/APB
  • Advanced Verification
  • Constrained random SV based verification using UVM and VIPs
  • Embedding system models in environment using MATLAB/SystemC
  • FPGA based prototyping / emulation
  • Bit accurate models and GPU acceleration in CUDA
  • Post silicon validation
  • Embedded software
  • DSP and embedded software development for Arm, TenSilica, GPUs
  • Linux drivers and BSP
  • Physical design
  • Experience with all main foundries TSMC, GF, and SMIC
  • All main nodes from 180nm to 6nm
  • DFT for mixed signal, RF and digital including memory and other BIST, Test Compression, Boundary scan, JTAG
  • Best in the class tools follow including Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor and Keysight
  • Low-power design: clock gating, switchable power domains, voltage and frequency scaling, near threshold

Silicon Creations

Award-winning Analog Mixed-Signal Silicon Intellectual Property (IP) that lowers risk
Silicon Creations is a self-funded, leading silicon IP provider with offices in the US and Poland, and sales representation worldwide. The company provides world-class silicon intellectual property (IP) for precision and general-purpose timing (PLLs), oscillators, low-power, high-performance multi-protocol and targeted SerDes and high-speed differential I/Os for diverse applications including smart phones, wearables, consumer devices, processors, network devices, automotive, IoT, and medical devices. Silicon Creations' IP is proven and/or in high-volume mass production in process technologies up to the most advanced available in the industry.

Our IP product portfolio includes:

In addition to this wide portfolio of proven IP, Silicon Creations is happy to discuss your custom timing or interface application and can develop a semi-custom solution for you based on silicon proven blocks. By combining creative and novel design techniques with proven circuit architectures and verification methodologies, we deliver leading performance with low risk while maintaining highly competitive pricing and delivery times. Please review the list of our products on Design & Reuse and ChipEstimate .

QuickLogic

Our Mission: To be a trusted partner for the Critical Infrastructure Sector by delivering purpose-built eFPGA IP, specialized FPGA devices and user tools that address critical security, reliability and operational demands in the most extreme environments, while ensuring long-term supply assurance.

Certus Semiconductor

Certus Semiconductor is a Unique IO & ESD Solution Company
We have assembled several of the world’s foremost experts in IO and ESD design to offer our clients the ability to affordably tailor their IO libraries into the optimal fit for their products. We work directly with you - that means we will meet with your architects, circuit & layout designers and reliability engineers to ensure that our IO and ESD solutions provide the most efficient and competitive solutions for your market space.

• Certus Semiconductor’s digital I/O solutions are capable of meeting many GPIO/ODIO standards including I2C, I3C, SPI, JECDEC CMOS, eMMC, LPDDR, SMBUS, DDC/DEC, ECEL,GTL, RGMII2, SPDIF and many more.

• Certus Semiconductor has silicon-proven libraries in TSMC, GlobalFoundries, and Samsung processes. These libraries can be licensed off-the-shelf or can be customized for your specific application, and are available as full libraries or on a cell-by-cell basis. We have experience consulting in Intel, TowerJazz, DongBu HiTek, UMC, pSemi, Silanna, Lfoundry, Silterra, TSI, XFab, and Vanguard processes.

• RF/Analog Circuit Characterization and Design
• Liberty Timing Modeling
• IBIS Models for I/O’s
• Custom Standard Cell Libraries
• I/O Library/Padring Integrated Oscillators, Voltage Regulators and PLL’s