ASIC PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

• Bridge the gap between analog chip designers and your analog circuit board designers
• Highlight your design with added possibilities and innovative ideas
• Cooperatively work with your analog circuit designers to develop chip specifications
• Quickly and cost effectively develop prototypes
• Rapidly ramp up our production quantities so your products can get to market
• Work with circuit board designers and manufacturing engineers to develop an IC test program

ADVANTAGES OF ASICs

• Cost Savings -- components, placement, PCB space, packaging, etc... are reduced
• Size -- overall product size reduced for portable and miniaturized applications, improved aesthetics and shipping costs
• Reliability Increase -- fewer parts reduce the possibilities of part failures, solder joint failures, and place & route errors
• Enhanced Security -- competition will find it much more difficult to reverse engineer your circuit on a chip vs. a PCB
• Added Functionality -- choose variable functions or add serial numbers with E2PROMS or OTP
• Reduced Manufacturing and Testing -- replace trim pots with E2Pots or OTP for automated setting and testing
• Higher Precision -- devices have increased component to component precision without the need for calibrating
• Power Consumption Reduced -- chip can be optimized for lowest possible power consumption

LOWER NREs THAN TYPICAL IN THE INDUSTRY

We keep our engineering and tooling charges to a minimum. Other companies use NRE as a large profit generator or as their only source of income. Our goal is to ship products, and our standing policy is to aggressively pursue custom analog business. We won’t let inflated NREs keep you from building your circuit around the “right” chip

REASONABLE VOLUME COMMITMENTS

Custom analog just hasn’t been available without huge volume commitments, typically millions of dollars in yearly revenue. We are committed to breaking down this barrier as well, especially in growing markets where first and second year volumes aren’t attractive to the “big guys”. We grow with our customers and help keep their products competitive.

PROTOTYPING OPTIONS AND EXPEDITING

We offer prototyping options to generate a “first look” and functional test results before excessive money is spent on mask sets and engineering wafer lots. There are also hot lots available for those who can’t wait to launch into production.