Analog & Mixed Signal Engineering Services

Ultra-low-power SoCs, RF systems, power management, analog layout and mixed-signal engineering solutions.

Our analog team is experienced in developing ultra-low-power SoCs and IP with integrated radios and power management systems targeting nano-Amp sleep budgets in process nodes down to 22nm.

RF-based application areas include broadcast radio receivers, medical monitoring devices and wireless hearing aids incorporating both custom and standards-based sub-GHz and GHz radios.

Our engineers support standards-based radio designs including Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Bluetooth Classic, Wi-Fi and IEEE 802.15.4/6 communication protocols.

Analog design is inherently challenging because multiple circuit implementations can achieve the same functional output while producing different performance characteristics. Our engineers analyze node equations and individual circuit behavior to optimize the final architecture.

For analog layout design and place-and-route at chip and board levels, many critical layout operations are still performed manually to ensure maximum precision and signal integrity.

In digital board-level designs, engineers create component-level schematics and define design constraints before passing them to layout specialists for implementation and optimization.

Board-level placement remains a highly engineering-driven process. Components are carefully positioned to optimize signal routing, thermal performance, manufacturability and electrical reliability.

Modern layout tools can automate a large portion of routing tasks, but experienced designers still guide the final routing stages to achieve optimal performance and compliance with design requirements.

Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filters utilize feedback mechanisms to reduce coefficient requirements while delivering efficient filtering performance. These filters provide powerful signal-processing capabilities for analog and mixed-signal applications.

Most IIR filters continue to be designed using established analog-domain methodologies and later converted into digital-domain implementations, allowing proven analog techniques to enhance digital signal processing systems.

Hybrid analog devices provide significant benefits including reduced board space, improved reliability, enhanced performance and minimized parasitic interconnect effects between discrete packages.

Integrated calibration techniques for offset, gain and linearity correction further improve the accuracy and performance of mixed-signal subsystems such as flash ADC architectures.