Semiconductor Design Services
AMS, RF & mmWave IC Design Services
NOVELIC is an authority on analog/mixed signal IC design, specializing in AMS, RF & mmWave integrated circuits, including related layout services. We are leveraging AI for contactless sensing and smart communications. Our know-how in signal processing HW and high-speed RF transmissions makes an essential difference and brings a competitive advantage to our customers.
From system design up to GDSII with/without NOVELIC IPs (mmWave ICs, digital ASIC)
- High-voltage design including BCD processes layout
- High-voltage design for e-mobility (automotive market segment)
- Special expertise in RF (up to 30 GHz) and mm-wave (30 – 300 GHz) IC design
- Low-power IC design (low nodes down to 22 nm) with special experience for wireless systems and SoCs for sensor applications
- CMOS, BiCMOS, and SiGe
- Technologies: TSMC, TowerJazz, IHP, XFAB, UMC, STM, AMS, TI, GF, etc.
- 22 nm – 0.35 μm
Example of the NOVELIC 57–64-GHz PLL with fully integrated frequency synthesizer developed in 130-nm SiGe BiCMOS technology for FMCW & Doppler radar sensors
Project Examples
Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)
A 16-bit, 120 MS/s analog-to-digital converter featuring a differential pipelined architecture.
Applications
- Communications and cellular base stations
- High-performance data acquisition
- Medical imaging
Key Features
- Resolution: 12 bits
- Sampling rate: up to 12 MS/s
- Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR): 75 dBFS
- Spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR): 95 dBFS
- Single-supply operation: 1.8 V
- Flexible analog input range: 1.0 – 2.0 Vpp
- Digital outputs: CMOS (1.8 – 3.3 V) or LVDS
- Power dissipation: 0.55 W @ 80 MS/s
- Resolution: 12 bits
- Sampling rate: up to 12 MS/s
- Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR): 75 dBFS
- Spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR): 95 dBFS
- Single-supply operation: 1.8 V
- Flexible analog input range: 1.0 – 2.0 Vpp
- Digital outputs: CMOS (1.8 – 3.3 V) or LVDS
- Power dissipation: 0.55 W @ 80 MS/s
Block diagram of NOVELIC’s ADC design
RF and mmWave IC
- 77–81-GHz automotive radar sensor, with on-chip FMCW synthesizer based on fractional-N PLL
- FMCW transmitter covering 57–64-GHz ISM band with output power of +8 dBm and up-to fully programmable chirp configurations
- 60–GHz industrial radar sensor and nFSK transmitter with on-chip PLL and 7–GHz bandwidth
- UWB ultra-low power transmitter (IEEE 802.15.4a)
- UWB sensor design, 3–4 & 7–8 GHz
- Watch based COSPAS/SARSAT beacon IC
- UWB 3.1–10.6-GHz transceiver for professional application
- 2.4–GHz SiGe high-performance direct I/Q demodulator and modulator
- Automotive radio RF IC design
AMS IC
- Ultra-high sensitive 3D Hall sensor SoC (AMS ICs) for industrial applications
- Heat sensor IC
- Flowmeter IC
- ADC: 2nd & 3rd order SC Sigma-Delta; CT Sigma-Delta; ultra-high-speed GHz sampling in 28-nm CMOS
- Integer-N and fractional-N PLLs: from 10 MHz to 81 GHz (with bandwidth up to 11GHz)
- Support blocks: bias, bandgaps, amps, buffers, LDOs …
AMS, RF, and mmWave IC Design Skills
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| System Design | MATLAB and Simulink, Keysight ADS Ptolemy, Verilog-AMS |
| AMS IC design | Cadence Design Flow Tools |
| RF and mmWave IC design | Keysight ADS, Cadence Spectre RF, Keysight Momentum, ANSYS HFSS, Sonnet Suites |
| IC Verification | Mentor Calibre, Cadence Assura Physical Verification, Cadence PVS |
| Programming | C/C++, Perl, Python, Cadence SKILL, Cadence Ocean |
Technologies
- CMOS, BiCMOS, SiGe
- TSMC, TowerJazz, IHP, XFAB, UMC, STM, AMS, TI, GF…
- 28 nm – 0.35 μm