Alphacore
USA
Alphacore offers state-of-the-art high performance/ultra-low-power data converters, analog and RF electronics, ICs, ASICs, SoCs, visible light and IR imaging, and custom engineering services.
Save time-to-market with our ready-to-go IP designs to meet your project needs.
Our engineering and leadership team combines long histories of delivering complex innovative solutions, through business success at companies from multi-nationals to start-ups.
Use this expertise to support your project’s design specification and schedule demands.
We specialize in designing novel microelectronics, and reliability or authentication tools for niche needs of demanding segments, including scientific research, aerospace, defense, medical imaging, and homeland security.
We have direct experience satisfying the most demanding market segments.
Alphacore’s meticulous Radiation Hardened by Design (RHBD) approach and careful component selection ensures the delivery of highly reliable products for long term deployments, protected from radiation effects such as Total Ionizing Dose and Single Event Effects.
Our RHBD approach and careful component selection ensures the radiation hardness you’ll require for your project and timeline.
Services
IC Design Services
Alphacore offers comprehensive IC design, implementation, validation and licensing for analog and RF intellectual property (IP) blocks. Our focus is to partner with customers offering them a team of specialists when needed, so our customers can concentrate on their core strengths during system design and development.
Our technologies meet and exceed even the most intimidating challenges facing development teams for custom analog, digital, and mixed-signal ICs, ASICs, and system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Using our expertise, we collaborate with customers to optimize partitioning discussions to trade-off realistic performance and likely architectures for their goals and timelines.
Alphacore has successfully completed:
–Phase-Locked Loop and Interface IP Blocks
–Radio Frequency (RF) IP blocks
We collaborate closely with research & development labs, systems companies, and industry standard organizations to provide valuable technology that meets leading industry requirements.
We have validated IP on common foundry nodes at Global Foundries, X-Fab, STMicro, ONSemi, and TowerJazz.
Our knowledge of technology and established liaisons with key organizations assures our customers Alphacore has proven expertise they need and can trust in a critical partner.
We also offer a Radiation Hardened by Design (RHBD) approach to ensure delivery of highly reliable radiation hardened products for long term deployments, protected from radiation effects.
Imaging System Development
Alphacore offers high frame rate, high resolution imaging solutions that are beneficial to areas that demand system reliability in environments that even the most robust commercial components cannot survive.
Alphacore is a leader in high-performance data capture and Imaging Systems for space, defense, homeland security, medicine and other applications. Our products include Readout Integrated Circuits (ROICs), high-speed CMOS image sensors (CIS), and high-speed camera circuits and modules.
Our imaging solutions offer:
Our proprietary design and manufacturing technologies have proven to optimize imaging systems and create the perfect fit for our customers’ applications. A design is developed with the customer to incorporate their specification for pixel size, global/rolling shutter, integration time, frame rate, I/O speed, ADC resolution and speed, dynamic range sensitivity.
During this collaboration, operating environments are considered to satisfy the customer’s radiation tolerance and operational temperature range objectives including cryogenic specifications.
Benefits
- Flexibility with specifications
- Optimized performance
- Collaboration on best partitioning of workflow to suit customer’s resources
- Supply chain security of proprietary design through volume wafer manufacturing sources
Capabilities
- Frame rates up to 10 k frames per second
- Area and power optimized ADC’s with 8, 10, and 12-bit resolutions
- Programmable Gain Amplifier front-ends for increased dynamic range
- Various application-optimized pixel architectures
- Numerous noise reduction techniques
- Cryogenic operational temperature range designs
- Radiation hardened designs
IP Design Services
Alphacore offers comprehensive intellectual property (IP) design, implementation, validation and licensing for analog and RF blocks. Our focus is to partner with customers offering them a team of specialists when needed, so our customers can concentrate on their core strengths during system design and development.
Our technologies meet and exceed even the most intimidating challenges facing development teams for custom analog, digital, and mixed-signal ICs, ASICs, and system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Using our expertise, we collaborate with customers to optimize partitioning discussions to trade-off realistic performance and likely architectures for their goals and timelines.
Alphacore has successfully completed:
–Phase-Locked Loop and Interface IP Blocks
–Radio Frequency (RF) IP blocks
We collaborate closely with research & development labs, systems companies, and industry standard organizations to provide valuable technology that meets leading industry requirements.
We have validated IP on common foundry nodes at:
- Global Foundries,
- X-Fab,
- STMicro,
- ONSemi, and
- TowerJazz
Our knowledge of technology and established liaisons with key organizations assures our customers Alphacore has proven expertise they need and can trust in a critical partner.
We also offer a Radiation Hardened by Design (RHBD) approach to ensure delivery of highly reliable radiation hardened products for long term deployments, protected from radiation effects.
Custom Engineering IC Services
Our Engineering Services team will assist you with critical design features and performance trade-offs paired with optimized Time-to-Market plans for your desired product.
We leverage our design expertise accelerate your time to market.
Alphacore’s Engineering Services team provides innovative, cost-effective solutions across the entire scope of high performance analog and mixed signal integrated circuit design. We have successfully delivered Analog-to-Digital converters, Sensor/detector/Imager Readout ICs, RF designs, PLLs, Interface ICs, high-speed CMOS Image Sensors, and high-speed with very high resolution cameras for, government, commercial, space-based and consumer products. We partner with manufacturers to deliver total Design for Manufacturability (DFM) solutions.
We provide engineering services that accelerate innovation in a broad range of industries, including:
- Cybersecurity and Reliability Monitoring
- Homeland Security
- Medical Imaging
- Space & Defense
- Telecommunications
- Test Equipment
- Scientific Experiments
Alphacore Engineering Services provides consultants who are experts in industry-leading system partitioning, design concepts, tools and platforms. Our design consultants are well qualified to rapidly adapt to a customer’s design flow.
Find out today how our services can meet and exceed the expectations of your next project.
The best way to get started is to have one of our applications engineers work with you to evaluate your design and help you explore partitioning options for your system specification.
After matching your design requirements to Alphacore’s existing IP solutions we may in some cases determine that a new IP is required to achieve the special requirements unique to your design.
We have validated IP on common foundry nodes at Global Foundries, X-Fab, STMicro, ONSemi, and TowerJazz.
Testing Services
Ensuring that complex chips meet process design kit (PDK) files and manufacturing test requirements is a significant challenge for designers using today’s complex deep sub-micron technologies. Inadequate screening whether at wafer probe testing or during accelerated or simulated life testing can be expensive in yield loss or early lifetime failure mechanisms if not completely understood. Alphacore has the circuit testing breadth to characterize where yield inhibitors will be manifested and how best to design screens that eliminate them early in the design/manufacturing cycle.
Alphacore’s test solution expertise maximizes productivity, providing designers and engineers with the fastest and most cost-effective path to high-quality manufacturing tests.
- Analog, Mixed-Signal and Digital IC Testing
- RF Component Testing
- Design-Centric Yield Analysis
- Radiation Effects Testing
- Wide Temperature Testing (including Cryogenic levels)
- Characterization to design specification
- Reliability Testing
IP Cores
Analog, Mixed-Signal, RF IC’s and IP’s
Alphacore provides advanced, cost-effective solutions for innovative circuit design, implementation and system packaging. Among our offerings are ‘rad-hard’ phased array radar components, Analog-to-Digital Converters, Digital Readout ICs, and Focal Plane Arrays. These designs are ideal for defense, homeland security, aerospace and space-based platforms. Our analog IC products and IP provide state-of-the-art performance to meet all of your design needs for:
-High-Performance Analog IC Designs
Our team has the expertise to provide IC designs in cutting-edge analog and mixed-signal technologies, resulting in more efficient use of board space, power, and more dependable delivery schedules and budgets for your designs.
Imaging Products and IPs
Alphacore’s Imaging solutions provide high frame rates with minimum integration time, clear still shots, low light imaging at high speed and circular buffering. With high radiation tolerance, our robust cameras can be deployed for beam monitoring in particle accelerators, radiation diagnostics, ballistic missile tracking, nuclear power plant surveillance, as well as airborne and space applications.
Alphacore’s systems expertise in areas high speed analog mixed signal and RF electronics enables us to deliver high-quality imaging solutions and IP products that uniquely support designer specifications needed to meet or exceed demanding design requirements for their target applications, and meet time-to-market objectives.
Alphacore’s verified IP Cores are ideal for diverse applications ranging from scientific experiments, homeland security, space, defense, medical imaging, telecommunications, test equipment that need high precision and the highest resolution available.
Our imaging products include:
-High Resolution Imaging Solutions
Alphacore’s extensive portfolio of products including state-of-the-art features such as:
- Lower power consumption
- Increased performance
- Lower cost
- Higher reliability
- Smaller footprint
… accompanied by unmatched support for a wide range of contemporary foundry process technologies.
Designers can trust the Alphacore name, knowing that our engineers will successfully integrate high-performance, low-power analog IP into their designs with limited risk and improved time-to-market.
Radiation Hardened Electronics
***Items in this sector may be subject to USA export regulations defined by ITAR restrictions***
Alphacore’s meticulous Radiation Hardened by Design (RHBD) approach and careful component selection ensures the delivery of highly reliable products for long term deployments, protected from radiation effects such as Total Ionizing Dose and Single Event Effects.
Integrated Circuits are specifically designed for Space, Medical, Homeland Security, Scientific Experiment, and Defense applications that operate in hazardous high-radiation environments. Depending upon the intended context, this could mean solar and cosmic radiation particles, gamma rays, radiation from medical imaging (x-rays), radiation in nuclear medicine, neutrons in high energy physics experiments and nuclear reactors, etc.
Our Alphacore designers develop innovative analog and mixed-signal building blocks for complete solutions on the latest technology nodes for commercial and radiation tolerant specifications. Additional rad hard capabilities information is here:
–Phase-Locked Loop and Interface IP Blocks
Power and RF Components and IPs
Alphacore’s Power Components portfolio includes RF Power Amplifier ICs, Front-End Board Amplifiers, DC-DC Voltage Conversion solutions, and RF solutions for electronics management. These innovations offer the best size, weight and pricing advantages available today.
Additional Power product related capabilities information is here:
CyberSecurity & Reliability Monitors
***Items in this sector may be subject to USA export regulations defined by ITAR restrictions***
Alphacore has developed multi-attribute circuits to authenticate the provenance of critical integrated circuits used in essential avionic, space, automotive, medical systems. Many deployed systems are subject supply chain obsolescence or introduction of nefarious components of poor quality and nationality.
Alphacore’s analysis circuits, techniques and tools detect unqualified microelectronics components using proprietary techniques for authentication, identification, and reliability monitoring.
Integrated Circuit Authenticity, Reliability and Built In Self Test (BIST) Tools
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