Design & Development Services
Custom ASIC and Design Suport for All Foundry Processes
Design & Development Services provides turnkey design engineering and product development services at your disposal. Our design team has the broad-based knowledge, expertise, and experience to successfully complete your project. This team combines technical expertise and program management experience in the areas of integrated circuit design, layout, and testing; verification; documentation; IP acquisition; and program management. The team's most recent accomplishments are completion of a commercial 130nm mixed-signal microcontroller ASIC; an award from Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a general purpose, radiation hardened Ultra Low Power Microcontroller suitable for space applications; and an award from the Department of Energy to redesign an Integrated Pixel Detector Read Out IC into Flexfet 180nm SOI CMOS while incorporating a new design for detector diodes.
Design Services
Extensive Design Experience
IP Creation - digital, mixed-signal, and memory for SOC designs
Acquisition and integration of commercially available IP
Complete ASIC design and verification
Silicon validation and development board creation
FPGA emulation for early software development and first pass silicon confidence
Customer Focused Engineering
U.S. based team for real-time collaboration and quick response
Schedules and deadlines respected
Available for Flexfet or outside foundry processes
Integrated Design and Development
Improve Your Time to Market
Product definition and detailed specifications
Integrated circuit design
Memory design
Layout and physical verification
Wafer probe
Packaged part testing
Product qualification
Semiconductor processing
New technology introduction
Program management
Military and Aerospace Support
ITAR-compliant design flow
Trusted certification in progress
Silicon-Proven IP
- Freescale SmartMOS10W
- Embedded Memory
- SRAM
- SRAM Compiler
- ROM (Via 1 programmable)
- ROM Compiler (Via 1 programmable)
- 26-bit Antifuse Block in 5m0t
- Analog
- Voltage Regulators: 3.3V and 1.5V Outputs
- USB PHY (12 Mb/sec)
- Precision, Programmable 48MHz Oscillator with no external components
- Bandgap Voltage Reference
- Temperature Sensor
- 6-bit ADC
- Digital
- Enhanced 8051 Embedded Microcontroller
- Reduced Area Digital Standard Cells
The American Semiconductor design team has extensive experience in a variety of design efforts. A sample of expertise areas includes:
- Microprocessors and Microcontrollers
- 8-, 16-, and 32-bit
- Intel x86, ARM, and Zilog cores
- AMBA bus protocol
- Memory
- EPROM, ROM, RAM
- Controllers for multi-voltage high speed I/O for DDR and SDRAM
- Controllers for NOR and NAND Flash
- Digital Peripherals
- Serial interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, USB, SDIO)
- Timers and PWMs
- Cryptography accelerators
- Display controllers
- Analog Peripherals
- ADCs
- Op-Amps
- Voltage Regulators
- Oscillators
- PLLs
- Temperature Sensors
- Libraries
- Standard cells
- I/O
- Multi-voltage high speed I/O for DDR and SDRAM
- and more...