Silicon Solutions – Costumized Chip Design & Development

Our Competences

ASIC Architecture Development, Mixed Mode Chip Design, Production & Testing, Consulting

Our competences

We offer all steps from the customer application to the final, tested chip:

Application2Concept

ASIC Architecture Development

Special applications need special chips. An architecture tailored to the very specific requirements of the customer application, using well balanced components is the key to a high performance, power efficient and compact design solution.

Concept2Design

Mixed Mode Chip Design

Based on over 30 years of experience in the development of ASICs for sensor readout, we design analogue building blocks, provide digital slow control, functional control and readout, and integrate everything to a full chip. Our focus is on the readout of small sensor signals with low noise, multi-channel architectures.

Full Custom Analogue and Mixed Mode Design: Schematic development, simulation & optimization, layout, verification.
Sensor readout (Strip, Pixel, SiPM, CMOS SPAD,...) with high channel count, low noise, low power designs. High speed designs.
Digital design, simulation and synthesis.
Experience with a wide range of building blocks: Charge amplifier, DAC, ADC, PLL, TDC, JTAG, fast serializers, IO cells, current mode logic,...
Integration of subcomponents to full chip. Top level simulation and verification.
Wide range of technologies (350 nm - 65 nm; BiCMOS, HV, Imaging)

Design2Chip

Production & Testing

We offer

ASIC submission
Chip packaging (subcontracted)
Development of test environment (Schematics, PCB, firmware, software)
Chip characterization & test report
Known-Good-Die testing

Consulting

P. Fischer has been involved in more than 20 different chip development projects as coordinator, designer and/or reviewer. This experience can be valuable in assessing new designs or in failure analysis.

Prof. Dr. Peter Fischer

CV

Peter Fischer is an experimental physicist at Heidelberg University working on detector development with a focus on novel, specialized readout electronics. He has contributed to silicon pixel and strip detectors for particle physics or for the detection of synchrotron radiation, has developed self-triggered readout for gas detector, created state-of-the-art ASICs for the readout of SiPMs (with focus on PET). He is also developing SPAD based photo detectors for special applications. In 2008, he founded the ‚Steinbeis center‘ for Microelectronics and Sensor Systems to satisfy requests for custom-specific chip developments which were not suited for research projects. In 2019, the center has been transformed to the ‚Silicon Solutions & Consuting GmbH‘

ASIC Architecture Development, Mixed Mode Chip Design, Production & Testing, Consulting