ICsense

ICsense offers a broad range of ASIC development services; from ASIC design to delivering one-stop-shop ASIC solutions including

• study
• 设计
• packaging
• bench test
• production (ATE) test
• characterization
• 合格
• SCM (Supply Chain Management)

In close cooperation, ICsense custom develops the ASIC according to your requirements. As a one-stop-shop for ASIC design and supply ICsense will lead you from the initial business case to the delivery of your final ASICs in mass production.

This makes ICsense stand out:

1. One-stop-shop for ASIC design and supply
2. Short time to market
3. System-level involvement and commitment
4. ASIC tailored to your application
5. Broad IP portfolio

ICsense’s expertise is in analog, mixed-signal and high-voltage IC design with a focus on:

1. High-performance and low-power
2. Power and battery management
3. Sensor, actuator and MEMS interfacing/acquisition
4. High-voltage IC design

DESIGN & LAYOUT SERVICE

• Industry standard tools: Cadence, Synopsys, BDA, …
• Modelling in Verilog-A, VHDL-AMS, Verilog-AMS
• 先进的模拟，混合信号，高电压的集成电路设计
• 可测性设计（DFT）
• Full PVT (process voltage temperature) and Monte Carlo simulations
• Layout service
• Digital design, VHDL coding

PROTOTYPING SERVICE

• Managing the manufacturing, (ATE) test, and packaging process
• Bench-testing and characterization of the developed prototype
• Fully-equipped in-house measurement lab
• Temperature forcing equipment Thermonics T-2800

行业标准的EDA工具

ICsense has developed a unique design environment for high-quality analog and digital design in a structured way, resulting in a high reliability and high first-time-right success rate.

结构化设计方法学

Key benefits:

• 结构化和利用的设计方案形式化设计方法
• 通过版本控制和设计方案的设计选择和权衡可追溯性
• Reliability of results by full mixed-signal simulation coverage and reporting
• 广泛的数字模拟覆盖和约束随机验证

主要特点：

• 自上而下，自下而上的设计方法
• Automated characterization over corners, supply and temperature
• Powerful simulation result and corner data processing
• Technology-independent platform
• Simulator-independent platform
• 嵌入功能的设计计划，例如大多数模拟块放大器结构，低压降稳压器，振荡器，带隙基准，温度传感器，...
• 代码，条件，数字仿真功能和断言覆盖
• Version control (Cliosoft)
• Issue management (JIRA)

PROPRIETARY DESIGN TOOLBOXES

• DC-DC converters (inductive and capacitive / buck, boost, buck-boost, flyback)
• Delta-sigma analog-to-digital converters
• SAR模拟-数字转换器
• Pipelined analog-to-digital converters
• Delta-Sigma fractional-N synthesizers
• Digital-to-analog converters
• Phase-locked loops (PLL)

• 可行性研究和概念定义
• Optimal choice of architecture and circuits
• Choice of technology and package
• Power, area, yield estimates
• Cost, timing and risk assessment

ICsense offers expertise in the following areas:

• MEMS interfacing
• Resistive sensor interfaces: Wheatstone bridge readout
• 电容式传感器接口：倾斜计，加速计，压力传感器，...
• 磁传感器接口：霍尔传感器，GMR（巨磁阻）传感器接口
• Inductive proximity sensors
• High accuracy, fully integrated temperature sensors
• Delta-Sigma (ΔΣ) analog-to-digital (AD) converters: continuous and discrete time
• Successive approximation AD converters

ICsense offers expertise in the following areas:

• LDO稳压器：低静态电流/高电流输出
• Protection circuits: current, voltage and temperature overprotection
• 集成的开关模式电源（高效率的DC-DC转换器）：
  1. Buck, boost, buck/boost, fly-back, … topologies
  2. 连续和非连续
  3. Voltage and current mode
  4. Single phase or multiphase
  5. High-frequency – small inductance
  6. Asynchronous and synchronous
  7. Pulse width modulation (PWM) – Pulse frequency modulation (PFM)
  8. Integrated charge pumps and voltage doublers
  9. Wireless charging and battery management: state-of-charge, state-of-health

ICsense offers expertise in the following areas:

• 带隙基准：低压（LV）和高电压（HV）
• Instrumentation amplifiers: chopping amplifiers
• 低压降（LDO）稳压器
• Low-noise switched capacitor circuits
• 低噪声的相关双采样（CDS）样品保持
• Operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs): offset compensation
• Phase-locked loops (PLL): low jitter, delta-sigma fractional-N synthesis
• Reference buffers
• High-precision, temperature-stable Xtal-less oscillators
• Digital-to-analog (DA) converters: high-accuracy, high-yield, fast-settling
• Delta-Sigma (ΔΣ) analog-to-digital (AD) converters: continuous and discrete time
• Successive approximation AD converters
• Pipeline AD converters
• Inductive bi-directional low-datarate link
• Monolithic oscillators with low-phase noise
• Ultralow-power circuits

ICsense offers expertise in the following areas:

• 高电压（双向）开关
• High-voltage I/O buffers
• Class AB/G/H amplifiers
• Class D audio amplifiers
• (Self-oscillating) power amplifiers
• High-voltage low drop out (LDO) regulators and bandgap references
• High-voltage DC-DC converters: capacitive and inductive, buck, boost, buck-boost, flyback, converters and controllers
• High-voltage charge pumps and voltage doublers
• 高压仪表前端
• H-bridge (e.g. motor steering applications)
• MEMS and piezo drivers (ultrasound)
• High-voltage drivers:
  1. MEMS drivers
  2. Line drivers
  3. Gate drivers
  4. Laser/LED/LCD/backlight drivers
  5. Low-side (LS) and high-side (HS) drivers
  6. 电极阵列驱动器（大脑，神经接口）
  7. Solenoid (coil) driver

ICsense is an experienced partner in delivering the right ATE HW/SW solution and package for your IC.

Test solutions:

• Fully equipped measurement lab for ATE test correlation and bench testing
• Thermostreamer Thermonics T-2800 for bench characterization
• 访问ATE平台，如：泰瑞达UFLEX（+ DC90模块），科利登D10和更

Assembly/packaging:

ICsense cooperates with world leading packaging centers to provide the IC package you request. During an ASIC development traject, the various packaging options are compared (technical/cost)

Most common packages include: QFN, BGA, ceramic, …

ICsense has built up considerable expertise in flip-chip and WLP (Wafer Level Packaging) solutions to accommodate for lowest form factor and highest performance.

另外,ICsense可以提供裸死在弗吉尼亚州rious forms (blue foil, waffle packs, …)

ICsense导致工业化阶段在你的目标卷提供完善的ASIC，少则数10万/年，以多万台/季度。早在设计过程中，ICsense需要DFM（可制造性设计）和DFT（测试设计）已经考虑在内。

A Single Layer Maskset (SLM) is generated to start volume production. The ASIC is first qualified by means of an industrialization lot (of a few batches) and a skew lot in most cases. From the devices in the industrialization lot, ICsense collects statistical data and freezes the production test (ATE) limits. The skew lot is processed to prove the robustness of the ASIC over process variations, and to ensure high yield.

资格是在最后的设备SOP之前（开始停产）进行。典型的资质等级为：

• JESD47G (Industrial)
• AEC-Q100 (Automotive)

Extra qualification tests can be carried out depending on the specific environmental operating conditions of the ASIC (“the mission profile”), and/or specific customer requests to ensure long-term ASIC compliance in the field.

ICsense provides full supply chain management, from taking in orders from customers, over managing manufacturing subcontractors and continuous monitoring of product quality, to management of inventory and transportation of final goods to customer’s global warehouses.

ICsense controls the supply chain of your product from order to delivery on time at the location of your preferred manufacturing site. The SCM service includes:

• Wafer ordering and production follow-up
• Quality control
• Logistics/insurance optimisation
• 分包商管理
• Cost optimization through test efficiency and yield management
• Customer return and FA (Failure Analysis)

什么客户说：

“The wealth of knowledge and experience demonstrated by ICsense throughout a rather intense qualification process, provided us with the unwavering confidence that we have selected an ideal partner for our ASIC design needs,” said Yuval Cohen, Chief Technology Officer of Audio Pixels. “Additionally, ICsense’s turnkey approach which includes test and manufacturing services, delivers an efficient and cost effective mass-production solution to seamlessly integrate the High-Voltage ASIC driver with our MEMS structure.”

ICsense has a broad expertise in ASIC design for functional safety (e.g. SIL-3 qualification). On the website, business cases can be consulted in a variety of markets.