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
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