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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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Medical Device
Medical Device Wireless Back Stimulator Problem The company had a first version of the wireless back stimulator chip, but it was sensitive to environmental conditions (voltage and temperature variations) and yielded poorly. There was an incomplete specification for the first device and the design database was not available. The assembly for the device required a...
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Pet Product ASIC
Pet Product ASIC Fabless Wireless ASIC Problem This pet product company needed a second source for five ASIC chips. A third-party circuit designer to create the circuitry for their product, but they did not have the expertise or tools to do the back-end of the design Solution iSine did the specification reviews, LVS & DRC for...
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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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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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