Silicon Line works closely with its customers from requirement specifications to volume production.
We offer customized analog and mixed signal design solutions.

A turnkey ASIC design includes:

• the feasibility study
• specification development
• circuit design and layout
• prototype characterization

• production test development

• wafer production and packaging

A system concept and architecture design takes into account several requirements like  power consumption, die size, environmental constrains, analog-digital partitioning, power budget calculations  - to name just a few.

It is a complex task that requires a deep technical understanding in circuit design on block and transitor level and know-how about the possibilities and options of modern CMOS process technologies.

Silicon Line offers a comprehensive suite of services in this field:

• Basic research
• System architecture
• System modeling
• Analog behavioral modeling
• System simulation studies
• Feasibility studies
• Technology assessments and selection

Analog and mixed signal ICs are rarely straight forward to design, and it's in this area that the expertise at Silicon Line can be invaluable.
An extensive knowledge of process and layout effects is of primary importance to a successful design.
Silicon Line has years of experience in what it takes to get a First-Time-Right design.

Whether a specific design is needed or a professional analog layout - Silicon Line understands the challenges of an analog or mixed signal IC design.
We have extensive experience in:

• Multiple Gigabit designs
• RF designs
• Low phase noise/low jitter designs
• PHY Layer designs...

We have designed up to muliple GHz or Gb/s:

• Drivers, amplifiers, high-speed I/Os
• VCOs, PLLs, and DLLs
• Clock and data recoveries, clock generators, clock dividers, and clock synthesis circuits
• Adaptive filters/EQs
• ADCs and DACs

• numerous digital circuits...

In contrast to the digital world where IP-blocks are software based, at analog and mixed signal designs IP-blocks are very process specific and usually hard-wired.
Once designed and implemented in the target SoC or ASIC, an analog/mixed signal IP block may not be transferred to the next generation of this ASIC or even to another chip without modification.
Silicon Line has a long-term experience with analog and mixed signal IP.
Our experience will fast and reliably get our customers the required analog macro.

Many long-life electronic products that are still in service use ASICs that were designed and manufactured years ago.
If the production of these ASICs gets discontinued, purchasing fresh supplies of the original ASICs is often not possible.
One of the services that Silicon Line offers is to redesign these obsolete ASICs.
Please contact us for details.

The overall performance of a system not only depends on the characteristics of the analog or mixed signal ASIC design but quite substantial on the peripherals to this ASIC, as well.
One of the most important components aside from the ASIC is a carefully und accurately designed printed circuit board (PCB).
The PCB not only supplies power and interconnects the ASIC but is responsible also for rf-matching, noise and jitter performance, heat dissipation, oscillation tendencies suppression, and EMI suppression - to name just the most important.

Silicon Line offers the design and development of sophisticated evaluation boards with a specific focus on:

• Rf-matching of the interconnects

• Noise and jitter minimization

• EMI compatibility

• Reference design suitability