Why Integrated Circuits?

Have you ever thought about an IC really yours?

Probably they are used every day in your designs and embedded in your products but maybe you considered a custom IC out of range for your business.

Here are some advantages that IC can bring: for sure at least one of these benefits may lead your ideas ahead of the game on your market.

With respect to the diffused and nowadays obsolete design on PCB, a system on chip (SoC) designed on IC first strikes the imagination for the opportunity to integrate every function you need in a single components (application specific IC, ASIC). Outstanding performances are achieved thanks to improved speed, accuracy, lower power consumption and reliability of custom IC.

A single SoC substitutes many commercial IC and the crowd of copper interconnections on your PCB: the board area which is saved also permits to embed the PCB wherever your customer would like to have it. The cost saving really outdistances competitors!

Moreover, the effect of external factors, for instance due to environmental harshness (i.e. humidity, acids atmosphere, ...), are greatly mitigated since all the core elaboration is protected into a single case.

As a result the reliability of the whole system is hugely increased thanks to the reduced number of parts and the intrinsic protection of the most critical ones. Of course, redundancy can also be integrated with negligible effort.

No more "out-of-production" critical messages from your commercial IC supplier! By owning the custom IC, you will decide how many pieces to manufacture whenever you prefer. Every time you need them, you shall order the foundry to release and deliver a new lot of samples only for you.

A definitive asset of custom IC, ASIC and SoC is the secretiveness they give to your ideas and innovative solutions. Indeed, neither the performance datasheet nor the pin-out map are public! In the case of your own custom IC, reverse engineering is dramatically harder (if ever possible...)!

Are IC expensive? No more! If your product portfolio targets a fan of performances and prices, include all the functions you plan to use in the next future and enable them accordingly to the application. Spread the costs, one custom IC fits all!