Aptasic is a fabless company taking in charge the production of ASICs with in-house testing, qualification, and tape&reel capabilities.

It relies on strong partnerships with X-Fab and many assembly houses to provide up-to-date technological solutions.

Our very experienced engineering team can support our customer with in-depth recommendations during all phases of a new ASIC realization.

Services offered by Arda Technologies range from the development of intellectual property (IP) to full turnkey IC design. IP development includes architecture, design, layout, and circuit characterization. Turnkey chip design extends the IP offerings with ATE test development, manufacturing qualification, and managing the logistics of delivering known good dice to our customers.

Our team of semiconductor design experts has backgrounds in the following areas:

• Data converters including high-speed and high-resolution ADC and DAC

• Phase locked loops, CDR, Serdes

• Wireless transceivers and SOC for standards such as WLAN, FM radio, GSM, CDMA, Bluetooth

• High-voltage and high-reliability devices for the energy and medical markets

• Digital signal processing blocks including FIR filters, IIR filters, adaptive filters, Viterbi coders, Reed-Solomon coders, FFT engines

We will work with you to find the right solution at the right price for your needs. We support a variety of engagement models to help you meet your goals. Our services can result in:

• Lower area, power, cost, risk and time to market

• Improved performance and higher integration levels

• Implementation of unique features and better protection of your intellectual property

ASIC Advantage, Inc. (AAI) of Sunnyvale, California is a fabless semiconductor company offering standard and custom mixed-signal solutions for industry-leading customers in a variety of applications and markets - automotive, portable audio, LED lighting, power management, industrial, medical, and military/aerospace. AAI has enjoyed ten years of sustained growth, built on a staunch reputation as a quality supplier with a demonstrated ability to apply strong analytical skills, breadth of process knowledge, and in-depth design expertise to resolve a diverse range of customer challenges. These concerns can vary from common business issues of cost reduction and supply management, to a full range of electrical, environmental, packaging, and system configurability requirements. AAI is an ITAR and ISO9001:2000 compliant corporation.

Joint development of Mixed Signal ASICs.

More than 15 years of experience in development of Mixed Signal ASICs can help you to make your products right first time.

Our services are dedicated especially to company's who are very experienced in discrete Analog and Mixed Signal design and looking to adopt the many benefits of ASICs in their products. We offer a full complement of services to support your own designs:

• Planning

• Training

• Implementation

• Reviews

• Hard Macros and IPs

For more information please visit our web site www.easy-asic.de or contact us at +49 (0)89 3245 0877.

Cactus Custom Analog Design is a fabless semiconductor company focused on delivering analog and mixed signal designs and design services. Our number 1 focus is in medical applications such as low power portable products, implantable devices, high voltage drivers and medical monitoring.

Our experienced team has worked for some of the largest medical device companies in the world. We can provide full turn key custom products (ASICs) or augment the skills and resources of your in-house development team. Our products and services have resulted in improved performance such as longer battery life, reduced bill of materials, smaller form factors, and lower product costs.

Our business model provides a low cost means to engage with our team of expert integrated circuit / system designers. Our designers will analyze your system requirements and from that analysis develop a system specification. We will provide a detailed assessment of how and if integration can benefit your product. If integration is beneficial, we will write a detailed ASIC specification for your product.

For more information visit www.ccad-ic.com, email sales@ccad-ic.com or phone 480-497-4511

Comport Data Inc. offers analog, mixed-signal and digital IC design, layout, testing, manufacturing and consulting services, using all X-FAB technologies and processes. The design team has a solid know-how for implementing low voltage/low power, high voltage, RF, and smart power designs.

The company has a flexible approach to development strategy, and can offer turnkey IC designs, prototyping and volume production, where all tasks from concept to tape-out and final testing are accomplished in-house, while wafer fabrication and packaging are sub-contracted.

It can also work on a modular tasks sharing basis, where Comport Data is responsible for certain well-defined tasks as part of a larger development project. One of the more successful models is the joint development team where the customer and Comport Data engineers work together on the same microelectronics project.

For more information, please visit www.comport-data.com or contact E-mail: info(at)comport-data.com,

Tel: +1 514 340-1550

Since 1994 Desert Microtechnology’s team of dedicated, experienced engineers have successfully developed and produced custom integrated circuits for satisfied customers world wide. Our expertise encompasses a broad range of applications, including optical sensing, data conversion, interface and signal processing. We have worked in low voltage / low power and high voltage devices in CMOS and BiCMOS.

If you need an analog, mixed-signal or digital IC, are having procurement or performance difficulties with your present custom chip, or require additional design or layout resources to augment your team, we can help.

Please visit our web site at www.desertmicro.com for further information or email us at sales@desertmicro.com.

Since many years The Institute of Microelectronics (IME) of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland develops FPGAs but also Mixed-Signal ASICs for applications in medical technologies, industrial electronics and telecommunications, based on technologies from X-Fab.

Our seven research fellows and engineers successfully employ their experiences in system design and simulation, switched-capacitor- and low power ASIC design, Sigma/Delta converters, analog and digital signal processing in R&D projects for the development of innovative products for the industry and consult companies during their projects. With the help of real projects we also introduce our young assistants into the world of microelectronics and then send them as qualified engineers to the industry.

Contact: Prof. Karl Schenk, Head of IME. www.en.fhnw.ch/ime

FhG-IPMS specializes in design, simulation & test of MEMS and ICs from device to system level

MAZeT GmbH is a medium-sized company focusing on the high-end development and manufacturing services in electronics and software. The company's know-how in a broad range of electronic technologies is offered to enhance customers' products, profiting from the excellence of our engineers.

Our target markets are medical engineering, automation engineering, and industrial measurement technology. In all these markets we target optoelectronic applications with special focus on optical sensor technologies and solutions.

Quality conformity at all phases - guarantees the delivery of quality assured services. MAZeT uses a quality management system under DIN EN ISO 9001 : 2000 for all of its operational procedures, thus ensuring the highest quality at any given process step.

Specialists in analog and mixed-signal Integrated Circuit (IC) design. Since 2005 Moortec has been successfully providing high performance analogue Intellectual Property (IP) and mixed-signal custom chip designs to UK and European markets. Application areas include low power medical, consumer wireless, audio, telecommunications and automotive.

Productivity Engineering GmbH (PE), having its registered offices in Germany was established in 1997. The company is specialized in the development and production of customer specific integrated circuits (ASIC), using all X-FAB technologies and processes.

PE offers a variety of services out of the two facilities in Dresden and near Stuttgart. For design services PE supports the development of Micro-Chips (analog, mixed-signal, RF, digital) and modules, development of semiconductor IP's (Intellectual Properties), physical layout-implementation (analog and digital), feasibility-analysis and specification of micro chips as well as application and consulting Services.

- Industrialization of ASIC-projects

- Life-Time-Support of integrated circuits with a long life cycle (technology and package migration, test-changeovers, cost redesigns, system-optimization)

- ASIC Supply Chain Management for own and third party products (Procurement, Test, Assembly and Volume delivery).

PE offers flexible business-models (Turn-Key projects vs. joint project teams), multiple customer sign-offs (Specification, RTL, Net list, GDSII) and support for low, medium and high volume products.

Customers can receive all necessary services from a one-stop-shop and benefit from our high flexibility, our broad package portfolio (Ceramics-prototypes, Industrial plastic, chip Scale and chip Size packages), as well as from our unique Life-Time Support of integrated circuits.

For more information, please visit: www.pe-gmbh.com

QualCore Logic is the recognized leader of silicon-proven Analog, Mixed-signal and Digital intellectual property (IP) for system-on-chip (SoC) designs for the past 15 years. QualCore’s IP portfolio includes high performance PHYs (DDRs, SerDes etc.), ADCs, DACs, PLLs, DLLs, Special IO’s, Power Management Solutions and various Analog and Digital building blocks. The company is headquartered at Sunnyvale, California and has its design center at Hyderabad, India.

QualCore Logic specializes in custom design of Analog & Mixed signal IP's for various nodes. QualCore Logic also provides Analog layout activities related to Analog Design, Full Custom Design and Library Design & supports customers in Mixed Signal device Validation & Test Engineering services. We can provide a customized or a full turnkey test solution.

For more info contact rajp@qualcorelogic.com or visit www.qualcorelogic.com

With its 40 years’ experience as an independent value-added micro- and optoelectronics service provider in particularly for Fables companies, OEM’s and others, RoodMicrotec built a strong position in Europe.

Its value-added services include failure & technology analysis, qualification & burn-in, test- & product engineering, production test – device programming – end-of-line service, reliability engineering – ESD/ESDFOS assessment & training, quality & reliability consulting, supply chain management and total manufacturing solutions with partners.

These services comply with the industrial and quality requirements of the high-rel/aerospace, automotive, telecommunications, medical, IT and electronics sectors.

RoodMicrotec has facilities in Germany (Dresden, Nördlingen, Stuttgart) and in the Netherlands (Zwolle).

SemQuest Inc. provides full custom integrated circuit design services from design conception through specification development to test and system integration. We specialize in analog circuits including low noise, low power circuits, data converters, phase lock loops, imagers, and detector readout arrays. We have developed circuits for X-Fab since 2001 and have designed circuits with most of the CMOS processes being offered. Circuits design experience includes:

Low noise, Low power amplifiers

CMOS Imagers and multiplexers

Readout Integrated circuit for radiation detection

Bio-Detection Circuits

MEMS modulation and detection (High Voltage Processes)

CMOS wafer post processing (detectors and MEMS devices)

Through silicon via CMOS post processing

General analog circuits design and layout

Our tool sets include industry standard Cadence based technology as well as lower cost alternatives. Our location is Colorado Springs, Colorado, customers are world wide.

For more information, please visit: www.semquest.com.

SiliconXpress is a fabless chip provider with offices in Lubbock, TX and Santa Clara, CA. We offer one-stop design, fabrication, packaging and test services for our mil/aero and commercial clients. Our strategic partnership with Silicon Turnkey Solutions gives us preferred access to a wide range of leading edge packaging and test services.

Smartlogic GmbH – is specialized in design of digital and Mixed-Signal-ASICs. The team of engineers meets highest standards regarding ASIC Design Know-How and skills and will provide you with professional advice as well in new product development as in redesigns of obsolete ASICs. Medium and smaller numbers are also being delivered. Due to cooperation with partner companies – Test- and Assemblyhouses – Smartlogic offers you a one-stop solution in electronic engineering.

This starts with development via Design/Layout, Prototyping as far as testing and subsequent serial delivery.

Smartlogic offers you maximum support through its engineering expertise in solving your specific technical problems and accompanies you in each stage of the product development process.

Suter IC-Design AG is an independent design company for analogue and mixed-signal ASIC's since 26 years. In this long time we have focused on low power and high performance analogue full custom designs.

Application: telecommunications, multimeters, heating / air conditioning, energy meters, ripple control receivers, medical electronics (neurostimulation, pacemakers, hearing aids), automotive, security systems, sensors (temperature, humidity, pressure), avionic.

Our focus is on providing fullcustom designs, IPs and supporting customer design team with training or shared designs, where we take over the design of some analogue blocks and/or the final layout and DRC, LVS checks. We are not selling final ASICs to customer, customer can order wafers directly or use a testhouse for buying wafers, testing and covering all logistic aspects. We support the product till production release.

Technologies: XFAB 0.8, 0.6, 0.35 and 0.18um.

Our experience: low power and high resolution ADC-DAC, switch capacitor filters (low speed), high precision bandgap references, all types of operational amplifiers and comparators, voltage regulators. Supply voltages: 1V ..30V.

Design software: Mentor (Synthesis, ModelSim), Cadence OrCAD (0.8-0.35um), SIMetrix (0.18um) and Tanner S-Edit.

Layout software: Tanner L-Edit, HiPer Verify.

TES Electronics Solutions is a Custom Design & Manufacture company provides solutions and services across every point of a product lifecycle from conceptdefinition to end of life. The main application areas are Location and Navigation, Wireless Communications and Systems on Chip (SoC).

The TES SoC group with about 90 IC design engineers at 7 European locations is your partner of choice for your ASIC, starting with a joint definition ofspecification and system and ending with delivery of production parts.State-of-the art Intellectual Property (IP) products are available for integration into your IC.

TES is offering a wide range of design services depending on customers

request:

- Specification and Architecture Definition

- Analog and RF-IC Development

- Mixed Signal IC Development (SoC)

- Digital IC Development (Front End & Back End)

- IC Layout and Physical Verification

- IC Validation and Lab Evaluation

- Design for Test, Test Program Support, Product Qualification

- Device and Process Characterization (Modelling)

TES offers particular expertise in design of High Speed CMOS, RF-ICs for wireless applications up to 60GHz, Analogue and Mixed Signal ICs for Automotive and Industrial applications as well as RFID components.

For more information, please visit www.tesbv.com or contact soc_sales(at)tesbv.com, Tel: +49 (0) 711 7287 7480.

TLSI is an advanced Mixed-Signal integrated circuit company that was established in 1977 to support the custom integrated circuit needs of its parent company, Telephonics Corporation, a worldwide leader in Integrated Information and Communications Systems technology. Today, TLSI is a broad-based fabless manufacturer of Standard and Full-Custom Integrated Circuits. From Fortune 100 companies to small businesses, industry has come to rely on TLSI for leading edge analog, digital and Mixed-Signal (analog/digital) integrated circuits. Over the years, TLSI has built an enviable reputation as a leading edge manufacturer who can successfully convert design concepts into reliable, cost-effective silicon circuits. TLSI is ISO 9001-2000 certified and backed by the financial resources of both Telephonics and its corporate parent, Griffon Corporation, an NYSE-listed company with over $1.2 billion in annual sales.