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Advanced Silicon

Is a fabless design company developing and delivering mixed-signal Integrated Circuits (ICs) for standard and specific applications (ASSPs, ASICs)

 

Our background

In year 2000, Advanced Silicon was incubated at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) with a strong IP and design capabilities in integrated circuits (ICs) for digital flat panel imagers with high-voltage drivers and ultra low-noise sensing ICs. Through a strategic partnership with Weida Hitech  in Taiwan, we have a well-established production network for the supply of full turnkey IC solutions.

The company has an extended experience in the development of high-performance mixed signal circuits for Medical, Aerospace, Industrial and Consumer market segments. We deliver products for application fields requiring flat panel imagers with high-sensitivity detectors. Typical application fields are chipsets for cockpit displays, photon detectors and capacitive touch sensors.

Our Core Technology

We develop our products with the latest technologies available or create our own by investing continuously in our internal R&D roadmap and through advanced research projects with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. 

Our technology IP is centered on mixed-signal circuits in the following major application fields for medical, aerospace and industrial market segments

  • Photonic detection
  • Capacitive sensing
  • Piezoelectric sensing
  • Microcontrollers with hardware accelerators
  • Embedded machine learning algorithms
  • HV drivers and Power Management Units

    Cutting-edge mixed-signal integrated circuit

    For photon detectors

    • Multi-channel high dynamic range AFEs (90dB)
    • Multi-channel high resolution ADCs (16-bit)
    • Very low-noise analog processing (50e-)
    • Fast scanning line conversion time (10us)
    • Radation Hard resistance (150Krad)

    For capacitive Sensors

    • High sensitivity of capacitance detection (<10fF)
    • Strong rejection of signal interference (50dB)
    • Fast response, High-immunity (EMC, Liquid)
    • 32-bit RISC-V CPU architecture, RTL base
    • Complex non-geometrical shapes detection

    For HV drivers & PMUs

    • Multi-channel High Voltage Drivers (100V)
    • DC/DC Buck/Boost converters
    • HV charge pumps (32V)
    • H-Bridge Drivers
    • PWM/Delta sigma modulators

    For machine learning algorithms

    • Fast and iterative training
    • Accurate context identification
    • Adaptive to new environmental conditions
    • 3D Intelligent Vision Systems
    • Accurate 3D point cloud processing
    • High accuracy of gesture interpretation

    Our Products Expertise

    The company has an extended experience in the development of high-performance mixed signal circuits for Medical, Aerospace, Industrial and Consumer market segments. We deliver products for application fields requiring signal processing path for high-sensitivity detectors and sensors.

    Whether the source of detection is capacitive, piezoelectric or photonic, our ultra-low noise analog sensing ICs can process signals from a single source up to 1024 parallel sources.

    Our high-performance 32-bit CPU cores with our proprietary coprocessing units embed advanced machine learning algorithms for data and image preprocessing functions to off-load the host computing power.

    Commonly the sensors require a high-voltage drive interface in the force-sense control loop. Our High-Voltage drivers can drive sensors up to 100V and as much as 1024 parallel channels.