advICo microelectronics GmbH

Steinstrasse 12
45657 Recklinghausen
Germany 
Contact person: Dr. Günter Grau
Tel.: +49(0)2361/90438-72
Fax: +49(0)2361/90438-69
E-mail: gg@advico.de
WEB Address: http://www.advico.de
 
 

Turn over of the company (2004)	-
% Turn over Digital ASICs (2004)	0
% Turn over Analog and Mixed Signal ASICs (2004)	50%
Total number of personnel	5
Number of ASIC designers	4
Type of workstations	PC/Linux + SUN/Solaris
Design tools	Cadence (Virtuoso/XL/Spectre/Diva/Assura)

Experience (during the last 2 to 3 years)

Application domains

• Fibercom: CDR (10Gbps) / signal quality measurement (40Gbps) / adaptive equalizers (10GBASE-LRM) / laser drivers (10Gbps)
• Wireless: 2GHz ISM-band transceivers, 5GHz components
• analog BiCMOS and CMOS (power conversion, sensor applications)
   

Experts in

• broadband/fibercom
• wireless

IP blocks available  

• 40 Gbps Eye Diagram Monitor (customizable chip)
• 10 Gbps 100mA-driving n-side-down laser driver (customizable chip)
• digitally programmable calibrated ps-resolution delay (cell or customizable chip)
  
• BiCMOS and CMOS bandgap cells

 
Number of ASIC designs per year : 1-4 (varies with project complexity)

Typical examples of realised projects

• 2.5 GHz low-power spread-spectrum transceiver front-end
• DC to 10Gbps (100mA max) laser driver for grounded cathode FP laser diodes (n-side down)
• CMOS/LDMOS DC-DC-converter & PWM controller

Other activities

• Layout services
• Tape-in service (golden DRC/LVS with Cadence tools)
  
• Design Kit development, maintenance & customer support (mainly Cadence, also Analog Office)
• RF PCB-design (e.g. FR4/PTFE multilayer)
• Consulting (Design reviews, Feasability studies, Design kit training etc.)
• Sensor design (photo, magnetic)

General description of the company

Being a design-house and IP-provider advICo offers services for the development of microelectronic circuits.

Design House:

advICo carries out parts or the complete process of chip development (circuit design and/or layout) on behalf of customers. From pre-study, or chip design, to development of prototyping boards as well as prototype tests customers can flexibly access our know-how and ressources.

SIP-Provider:

advICo offers its customers pre-developed circuits or circuit-parts (Semiconductor Intellectual Property). SIP circuits are available as complete chips with customer-specific modifications or as circuit blocks which can be integrated as parts into larger IC designs. The use of SIP reduces development time, cost and risk.

Competence:

Our development team has special know-how in the design of analog/mixed-signal ICs for high frequencies. This comprises IC design for fiber-optic communications (up to 40 Gb/s) and wireless communications (up to 6 GHz).

Our designers are accustomed to IC design with modern Silicon and Silicon-Germanium technologies. Moreover they have profound experience in the design and test of RF- / microwave circuit boards.