WHAT WE OFFER
Need a solid IC solution for your business that is developed fast and 'right first-time'? Avoid future challenges and leverage our decades-long expertise in custom IC design and development. Having helped companies like NXP, Broadcom, Panasonic, Melexis and OSRAM with custom solutions, we know what defines success across industries.
Custom ASIC Design
SystematIC, as its name aptly suggests, draws its strength from a thorough systematic development methodology and a profound knowledge base which it applies to practical implementation of every analog and mixed signal ASIC it develops. Thanks to the ‘SystematIC’ methodologies, a fully functional, on-spec first silicon is attainable with minimum number of design iterations and significantly reduced overall development cost and time-to-market.
ASIC Turnkey solutions
In addition to the development and validation of prototypes on silicon, SystematIC provides full supply chain management of customer specific IC products. Although some of the operations are subcontracted, SystematIC holds the unique responsibility of the entire supply chain - from order to delivery on time at customers’ preferred manufacturing site.
DRIVE GROWTH WITH FAST, HONEST AND OPTIMAL IC SOLUTIONS
SystematIC develops analog and mixed-mode integrated circuits (ICs) and provides all design services related to this development. These services include feasibility study, system/IC architecture investigation, design and simulation (IC design), physical design and verification (IC layout), foundry selection and communication. Besides supporting the design phase SystematIC also assists in sample evaluation, testing, and application support. We contribute to innovation in integration by creative circuit design and provide solutions to facilitate innovative electronic product development.
✓ Enhance competitiveness with our in-depth technological knowledge
✓ Accelerate your product roadmap
✓ Reduce your time to market
✓ Get access to our state-of-the-art infrastructure
✓ Benefit from our large international network of expertise
✓ Lower your research costs and risks
CLIENT SUCCESS
For over 20 years, we've been working as the ASIC development partner to hundreds of companies. Big Fortune 500 fabless organizations, who are technology leaders, and small and medium enterprises with disruptive innovation, we have supported all and learned a great deal from them. Our team of professionals provides you with a full range of ASIC design, product developments and consultancy services. ASICs that we build help the world's leading brands transform their businesses, increase their revenues and save up to 40% of the time and operating costs.
Consumer electronics, Sensor interfacing
CAPACITIVE FINGERPRINT SENSING ROIC
CHALLENGE
Our customer is an extremely ambitious start-up that aims at redefining fingerprint sensing by merging the high quality of capacitive sensing with the benefits of TFT technology (cost, size, integrability, conformability). They decided to prove it on the largest Fingerprint Acquisition Format (FAP) defined by the FBI Appendix-F biometrics acquisition standard, the FAP60, and bypass all the smaller formats. They wanted to build a capacitive fingerprint scanner using Sharp’s TFT technology, so they designed an embedded fingerprint acquisition system, but a fundamental piece was missing: a Read-Out IC (ROIC) to bridge the analog domain of the TFT matrix and the digital domain of data processing.
The dynamic needs of a start-up customer, the high degree of innovation inherent to this project, and the additional design constraint from the intended Chip-on-Foil (CoF) post-processing, called for an adaptable design partner with first-time-right mindset, and SystematIC accepted the challenge.
SOLUTION
SystematIC designed a ROIC with TFT drivers according to our customer’s specifications. We succeeded in designing a modular stack of 400 compact read-out channels with 10-bit digital output and 10-μs conversion time. Moreover, we designed an auxiliary array of high-voltage drivers for the TFT matrix addressing.
The channel pitch matches the tight requirement of the application, which is key to minimize the IC area (competitor’s products of similar number of channels take up to twice as much silicon area). This is possible thanks to the efficient use and careful design of medium-high-accuracy data converters, where part of the resources is shared among the channels.
The fast line conversion time, in combination with pipeline operation and a dedicated parallel output data line bus (LVDS compatible, 5 physical channels), are essential to achieve a full frame scan in less than 60 ms, for the largest fingerprint acquisition format (FAP60).
The ROIC timing is provided by an external host, which allows for fast and flexible evaluation of the first samples and reduces the chances of design mistakes. The host receives the converted data and reassembles the fingerprint image line by line.
Automotive, Sensor interfacing
TIRE PRESSURE SENSOR
4 weeks: architecture proposal
The project was to develop an analog front-end architecture for a given capacitive MEMS pressure sensor. The front -end must accurately measure the pressure in a tire and be robust against leakage, parasitics and noise. The SystematIC methodology was applied. First off, the sensor was electronically modelled to determine an optimal excitation and read out architecture. Next, during the detailed design phase the front-end was designed and layouted for a modern automotive IC application, including safety and test features.
Industrial, Integrated power
POINT-OF-LOAD POWER CONTROLLER
4 weeks: architecture and IC design proposal
The customer started a business line to produce controllers for industrial electronics. Target applications were Point-of-Load Power Modules, Ethernet Routers and Switches and Industrial Power Management. The customer’s approach was to offer a versatile IC to the market.The customers discovered market interest and received request for samples. Within a year SystematIC developed all accurate analog functions in a new IC process for this complex mixed signal chip and delivered an ASIC reference design and layout.
Consumers, Integrated power
AC LED DRIVER IC
4 weeks: architecture proposal
The customer produced a range of AC LED lamps, built with discrete electronics, with limited set of external components. The lamps were directly driven from the AC Mains resulting in a compact and potentially low-cost construction. The customer was looking for a custom ASIC solution for further performance enhancement, simplification of the supply chain and cost reduction. A discrete prototype was build and demonstrated to the customer just after two weeks of first contact. The successful demonstration was followed by the development of ASIC and industrialization of the same.
Industrial, HV, Sensor interfacing
X-RAY DETECTOR READOUT
20 weeks: prototype IC
The customer has a leading international position in industrial X-ray crystallography systems. In one of these products a multi-channel HV passive XRAY sensor is applied for material analysis and an accurately matched channel readout and signal processing ASIC is required. Digital switching should not affect the very low analog signal integrity. SystematIC proposed an architecture of ultra-low noise front ends that are noise optimized to the sensor element and applied in a matched channel configuration.
Consumers, Sensor interfacing
PROXIMITY AND AMBIENT LIGHT DETECTION
3 months: custom ASIC tapout
SystematIC has designed a family of products which combines Ambient Light Sensor (ALS) and Infra-red Proximity Detection Sensor (PS) in a single SoC. Ambience light sensor measures ambient light intensity with the sensitivity that matches the response of the human eye. The proximity sensor measures the distance to an object. Our client is a leading global organization providing components to mobile phone manufacturing companies.
NO CHALLENGE IS BIG ENOUGH
At SystematIC we are fascinated about IC design. We are persons that want to know how things work and when we actually do we love the challenge of building something with it. And this is not based on just a lucky guess but we work in a structured way to get to a result that is optimal.
You can proof that what you do is very good and ultimate. It's all about capturing what you need within the limitations of physics and mathematics and use the tools that are available to actually make it. Understanding the possibilities and challenges of integrated circuit design as well as the customer requirements is key to a successful project. That is why we are fast. In an early stage we try to capture the key ingredients and solve them on high level.
That way we know it will work before we start and can provide our customers with the best value in both quality of design and in design time.
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