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Imec.IC-link has formed local and international partnerships with leading design houses and IP providers. These long-term, trusted relationships allow our customers to have access to wider range of services and products.

Design and IP partners

Design Partnerships

www.blueice.be

BlueICe

An ASIC/SoC design house, specialized in processor-based design (including embedded software)and ultra-low power design. BlueICe offers IP for 802.15.4 and BTLE.

Design Partner & IP Partner

www.cyient.com

Cyient

Analog, RF and mixed-signal custom IC design and turnkey ASIC supply for Industrial,&nbsp;Health, Consumer, Automotive, Smart home and Wildlife tracking.

Design Partner

www.dolphin-design.fr

Dolphin

Over 30 years’ experience, Dolphin Design is a leading provider in mixed-signal IP and ASIC/SoC design serving Aerospace, Industrial, Medical, Consumer market and Automotive. The IP catalog is quite rich with Energy efficient Advance Power-Management, high quality Audio Codec (ADC and DAC), MCU SoC chassis, AI computing and more. The ASIC team is expert in delivering quality turnkey solution.

www.easics.com

Easics

Digital &amp; mixed-signal ASIC, SoC and FPGA design for high performance, low power, reliable and future-proof systems.

easii-ic.com

EASii IC

EASii IC is a French ASIC Design House and Electronics Design Center that offers full turnkey solution from architecture specification to ASIC supply for Consumer, Space, Aeronautics, Telecommunications, Industrial, Automotive and Medical markets. The company has world-class expertise in designing custom Analog, Digital, Mixed and RF Integrated Circuits in the fields of Low Power, Data Conversion, High Voltage, Radiation-Hardened (Rad-Hard) technologies. EASii IC is ARM Approved Partner, Xilinx Certified Partner and QMS certified according to ISO 9001 and EN 9100 standards.

www.ensilica.com

EnSilica

Headquartered in UK with design centre in three locations in the UK, one in Brazil and one in India, EnSilica is a fabless design house who provide both full turn-key chip design and supply and selected design services. The company has world-class expertise in designing custom analogue, RF and digital ICs for automotive, industrial, healthcare and IoT markets. &nbsp;EnSilica has a track record in delivering high quality solutions to demanding industry standards such as ISO26262.

www.icalps.com

IC’Alps

Headquartered in France (Grenoble), IC’Alps can act as your ASIC/SoC single point of contact from architecture specification and circuit design, with partners for packaging &amp; test. It has a proven track record in delivering sensor/MEMS AFE interfaces, ultra-low power consumption designs, high-resolution converters, and digital devices up to multiprocessors-based circuits (ARM or RISC-V) on technologies from 0.18um down to 7/5nm. Certifications: QMS certified according to ISO 9001, ISO 13485 (medical) and EN 9100 (aeronautics) standards, Common Criteria, ARM partner.

www.icsense.com

ICsense

ICsense has the largest fab-independent European IC design group with world-class expertise in analog, digital, mixed-signal and high-voltage IC design. The company develops and supplies customer exclusive ASIC solutions for the automotive, medical, industrial and consumer market compliant with ISO9001, ISO13485, IEC61508-ISO26262. ICsense is a fully independent subsidiary of the TDK group and offers <a href="https://www.icsense.com/asic-projects/">ASIC development</a> and supply and <a href="https://www.icsense.com/custom-ic-design/">custom IC design</a> services.

www.lucedaphotonics.com

Luceda

Luceda Photonics’ design tools and design services are rooted in over 50 years of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design experience. We partner with photonic fabs to design and enable validation of photonic integrated circuits for industrial users worldwide.

www.mindcet.com

Mindcet

An analog mixed-signal power management IC design company. Specialized in high-voltage, high-temperature and high-reliability for automotive, industrial, medical and consumer product.

www.nsilition.com

nSilition

Analog and mixed-signal&nbsp;IC and IP design expertise for&nbsp;ICs containing&nbsp;low-power and high-voltage analog, data converters and high-speed data interfaces. For applications addressing&nbsp;the automotive, medical, industrial, aerospace and military markets.&nbsp;Large track&nbsp;records&nbsp;of silicon proven ICs and IPs in&nbsp;production.

www.synapse-da.com

Quest Global

Quest Global is an established engineering services company with over 25 years of deep engineering expertise. From silicon to systems to cloud, Quest Global offers a full spectrum of end-to-end silicon, product, and platform engineering capabilities to the world’s largest technology companies. Quest Global provides comprehensive turnkey silicon engineering, custom SoC, and ASIC services to chipmakers and industrial customers seeking customized silicon solutions. Quest Global also offer concept-to-product embedded engineering services and industrialized solutions.

tusk-ic.com

Tusk IC

RF and mmWave ASIC design expertise in advanced silicon technologies. Tusk IC is a fabless design company offering (semi-)custom ASIC design services and ASIC supply for 5G infra, Radar, Ka-band satellite communication, V/E/D-band FWA and 6G applications for automotive, industrial, healthcare and consumer markets. 
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IP Partnerships

www.arm.com

Arm technology is defining the future of computing. Our energy-efficient processor designs and software platforms (including CPUs, GPUs, System IP, Interconnect, NPUs, modelling, and more) have enabled advanced computing in more than 250 billion chips. Our technologies securely power products from sensors and cars, to smartphones and supercomputers. Together with 1,000+ technology partners, we are enabling artificial intelligence to work everywhere, and in cybersecurity, we are delivering the foundation for trust in the digital world – from chip to cloud. The future is being built on Arm.

IP Partner

www.cadence.com

Cadence

www.csem.ch

CSEM

CSEM is one of Europe’s leading providers of ultra-low-power ASIC design services and silicon IPs.

It provides a flexible engagement model, ranging from licensing of our silicon IPs and customized analog IP block design, through to full-custom fabless ASIC and SoC design and delivery, from 0.18um down to 12nm technologies.

Silicon IPs include:

<ul>
	<li>Best-in-class Bluetooth (BLE and Dual-Mode)</li>
	<li>Low-noise analog front-ends and ADCs</li>
	<li>ULP RISC-V based cores and ML accelerators</li>
	<li>RF (NFC, UWB, Radar) &amp; timing (OSC, PLL, RTC…)</li>
	<li>CMOS image sensors</li>
</ul>

www.omnidesigntech.com

Omni Design

Omni Design Technologies&nbsp; is a leading provider of high-performance, ultra-low power IP cores in advanced process technologies that enable highly differentiated systems-on-chip (SoCs) in applications ranging from wired and wireless communications, automotive, imaging, sensors, and the internet-of-things (IoT). Omni Design, founded in 2015 by semiconductor industry veterans, has an excellent track record of innovation and collaborating with customers to enable their success.

www.sofics.com

Sofics

Sofics is a foundry independent semiconductor IP provider that has supported 100+ companies worldwide with specialty on-chip ESD protection and unique I/O circuits. Fabless companies using Sofics IP can enable higher performance, higher robustness and reduce design time and cost. Sofic’s technology has been characterized on 50+ processes including advanced FinFET, SOI and BCD processes.

www.synopsys.com

Synopsys

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"A partner who can deliver on his promises”

Danny Moreno Levy

Patricia Fermín de Moreno

Wiyo is a Spanish Internet of things (IoT) start-up that created an intelligent tag to enable simple and efficient solutions in the world of automatic identification and data capture. We talked to its founders about their journey and the importance of ASICs.

“A start-up doesn’t have the time or money to make mistakes.”

Mark Inskip

Arm is a leading semiconductor IP provider. For the Morello research program, the company and its project partners needed to manufacture a real-life and complex system-on-chip, a task imec.IC-link was well placed to support.

Collaborating for a secure future with Arm

Imec and EUROPRACTICE launched a design contest in summer 2021 for first-time users of imec silicon nitride photonics technology. Here are the results.

Winners of the design contest for first-time users of imec silicon nitride photonics technology (BioPIX300)

Contest aims to stimulate innovation in power electronics, leveraging GaN technology to create higher power, smaller and faster components that increase devices’ power density

Imec and EUROPRACTICE announce winners of 2021 GaN-IC technology design contest 

Ferran Tejada

Adrien Frouin

Microelectronic systems orbiting above us are transforming humanity. But designing ASICs for use in space is a special trade. One that Arquimea, with the help of imec.IC-link, masters to perfection.

ASICs continue their starring role in the New Space era

Oliver Davies

Mike Davison

For a start-up, it's not easy to gain a share of the 5G network market. But Picocom is up to the task, thanks to a talented and experienced team, and access to imec.IC-link’s experience and network.

Picocom – a David in the 5G world of Goliaths

An Nguyen-Dinh

Alaa Makdissi

A complete paradigm shift in Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM)

Fergal Ward

How an Irish start-up is on a mission to prevent migraine; and to do so with bioelectronics.

“From last option to better option”

Imec.IC-link partner launched an all-electric communication satellite.

EUTELSAT KONNECT helps to bridge the global digital divide

645 ASICs that were developed with and fabricated through imec.IC-link’s platform for radiation-hardened design took their maiden voyage on a smart European satellite.

DARE-enabled chips launched on innovative communications satellite

While patents are hard to enforce, ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits) are almost impossible to crack.

Why an ASIC offers the best protection for your IP

Customers decrease their time to market thanks to the joint offering of ASIC IP, design and manufacturing services.

Design and IP partners

Design Partnerships

IP Partnerships

"A partner who can deliver on his promises”

“A start-up doesn’t have the time or money to make mistakes.”

Collaborating for a secure future with Arm

Winners of the design contest for first-time users of imec silicon nitride photonics technology (BioPIX300)

Imec and EUROPRACTICE announce winners of 2021 GaN-IC technology design contest

ASICs continue their starring role in the New Space era

Picocom – a David in the 5G world of Goliaths

A complete paradigm shift in Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM)

“From last option to better option”

EUTELSAT KONNECT helps to bridge the global digital divide

DARE-enabled chips launched on innovative communications satellite

Why an ASIC offers the best protection for your IP

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"A partner who can deliver on his promises”

“A start-up doesn’t have the time or money to make mistakes.”

Collaborating for a secure future with Arm

Winners of the design contest for first-time users of imec silicon nitride photonics technology (BioPIX300)

Imec and EUROPRACTICE announce winners of 2021 GaN-IC technology design contest

ASICs continue their starring role in the New Space era

Picocom – a David in the 5G world of Goliaths

A complete paradigm shift in Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM)

“From last option to better option”

EUTELSAT KONNECT helps to bridge the global digital divide

DARE-enabled chips launched on innovative communications satellite

Why an ASIC offers the best protection for your IP