SERVICES
FMAX offers analog and mixed-signal design services ranging from basic verification and IC layout services to the design of state-of-the-art mixed signal circuits. At FMAX, customers access highly experienced mixed signal design engineers each with 20-30 years of design experience. Final deliverable product may be an IC, such as an ASIC, or just an IP block. Many projects start with a limited scope feasibility study.
Design Competencies
- Integer-N PLL
- Frac-N PLL
- Low Noise Frequency Synthesis
- Data Conversion
- CMOS Micropower (5nA BGAP/PTAT, nA Power Conversion)
- Low Noise VCOs
- Trans-impedance Amplifiers for Opto-electronic Receivers
- Clock and Data Recovery
- SerDes Data Aggregator
- Wide Bandwidth Sample and Hold
- Power Supply / Voltage Regulation
- Micropower CMOS BandGap; PTAT; Voltage Conversion
- I2C
- Digital PLL
- Time Domain Reflectometer
- FPGA and/or Verilog-A Architecture Proof of concept
- Up to 60 Gbaud PAM4
Specialized Board Fabrication
- 40 GHz Controlled Impedance
- Chip-Scale-Packaging
Infrastructure
- High Performance Multi-Core CPU Simulators
- Verilog-A / Device-level SPICE integration
- Verilog-A Based Verification Methodology
- Remote Office VPN
Process Experience CMOS / SiGe
- X-FAB XC06, XH035
- TSMC 350nm, 180nm, 90nm, 65nm, 40nm, 28nm
- IBM-7RF (180nm SOI)
- IBM-7HP(180nm Emitter Length SiGe)
- IBM-8HP(130nm Emitter Length SiGe)
- IBM-9HP(90nm Emitter Length SiGe)
- IHP SG13G2Cu(130nm Emitter Length SiGe w/ 4 Cu layers)
IC Layout Tools
- Cadence
- Silvaco
- Customer Provided VPN / VNC
