Analog Silicon, Inc. is an Analog IC design service company providing full turnkey design of precision Analog IC functions for low power & power management intensive battery operated applications.

Analog Silicon performs the design of ultra low power (500nA -- 5uA)  analog ICs for a variety of battery operated applications where multi-year battery lifetime is a critical application requirement. Typical products provide 5—10 year battery lifetimes from standard low cost alkaline & lithium batteries. Our main area of focus is the power consumption and power management challenge in remote un-tethered devices operating from small low cost batteries and power scavenging sources. 

Ultra low power analog IC operation allows for continuous monitoring in the application i.e. the chip goes into an ultra low power sleep mode while still running its oscillators, controller and sensing circuit inputs, and can itself independently (without any external stimulus) wake up in response to change in sensed inputs or at pre-timed intervals for further supervision and/or host/RF communications. Operating in this manner allows for substantially better applications’ performance than approaches which use the historical “dumb-device” approach of a power down mode with an external wake-up needed. Ultra low power continuous operation also allows wider integrator options for lowest cost microprocessors/cores and other key system functions.

Ultra Low Power design applications include:

• Utility meter reading
• Industrial controls
• Wireless thermostats & HVAC control
• Infra-red communications
• Wireless sensing
• Consumer electronics
• Toys & gaming devices
• Security

Analog Silicon staff have designed over 10,000,000 devices now deployed in field service, of which 5,000,000 units are used in battery operated low power wireless sensing & telemetry. Reliability is a key requirement for these designs, because of their autonomous operation. These unique low power analog IC solutions have enabled end-product sales revenues of over 400M$.

Analog Silicon regularly works with other specialized IC design partners to provide a combined best-of-breed solution to end-customer application needs. Analog Silicon staff provide assistance to systems design engineers and customer in house IC design team to supplement low power & precision analog IC design.

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