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IR Camera Signal Processing ASIC
IR Camera Signal Processing ASIC Mil/Aero ASIC Assembly Problem The group at this MIL/AERO company won a DARPA contract to miniaturize an IR camera that would interface with an Android phone for display. While the design team had done many projects with IR cameras in military applications, they had previously used FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays)...
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Radar Signal Processing ASIC
Radar Signal Processing ASIC Mil/Aero Obsolete ASIC Redesign Problem The Mil/Aero Company had developed an IC for precision movement and alignment of radars. The original design was fabricated in an older technology that was no longer available. iSine had performed the original design ten years prior and the development tools that were used for the...
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Aerospace Lifecycle Management ASICs
Aerospace Lifecycle Management ASICs Aerospace Supplier ARINC-429 Transmit and Receive ASICs Problem The customer was using devices from a previous supplier to populate their ARINC modules. That previous supplier ceased producing the chips (End Of Life). The requirements were understood for the devices, but details of the implementation were unknown. The devices needed to be...
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Bipolar ASIC Redesign
Bipolar ASIC Redesign Problem Teradyne had less than a 7 month supply of a critical bipolar ASIC chip used in a production tester. Although they had paid for a new design by a large domestic semiconductor firm, the part did not work properly in their system. Teradyne did not have a schematic or spice models...
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Fabless ASIC for EVLA Radiotelescope
Fabless ASIC for EVLA Radiotelescope An auto-correlator chip was needed for deriving a signal out of large amplitude noise. The consortium for the Enhanced Very Large Array (EVLA) telescope had a limited budget. Problem An auto-correlator chip was needed for deriving a signal out of large amplitude noise. The consortium for the Enhanced Very Large...
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Analog-to-Digital Converter
Analog-to-Digital Converter This digital communications company worked for 2 years on the design for this 80 MSPS analog-to-digital converter (ADC), but it did not meet specs. Problem This digital communications company worked for 2 years on the design for this 80 MSPS analog-to-digital converter (ADC), but it did not meet specs. The device was poorly laid out with...
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Medical Device Manufacturer, Surgical Division
Medical Device Manufacturer, Surgical Division Problem The customer acquired a business in the early 2000’s for their product in the women’s health ablation market. Over the 10+ years since the acquisition (and the 15+ years the product was first introduced), the instrument has proven to be a significant profit generator for the business. It is...
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HDMI Video Processor
HDMI Video Processor A video processing startup needed a large video processor for wireless transfer of HDMI signals. Problem A video processing startup needed a large video processor for wireless transfer of HDMI signals. The high density HDMI signal needed to be transferred at high speeds over a wireless signal without major losses. Solution A mixed-signal...
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ASIC Design Services
ASIC Design Services A MEMS startup was behind schedule on design and layout for an analog-digital signal converter Problem A MEMS startup was behind schedule on design and layout for an analog-digital signal converter (ADC). Solution An iSine engineer worked on site full time and weekends using Cadence Virtuoso Module Generator software. Layout, DRC and...
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Video Processing ASIC
Video Processing ASIC Problem The customer was a startup with a design for a graphics processor that needed no external memory. The technology was targeted to applications that required a small footprint – bezels in laptops, chromebooks and similar devices. The customer’s design team wrote the RTL and performed synthesis but did not have physical design...
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