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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