http://blog.customsiliconsolutions.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 24 May 2010 17:48:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en     I recently conducted a Quality Audit, which encompassed site-wide activities and documentation compliance of UNISEM, Batam Indonesia and UNISEM, Ipoh Malaysia integrated circuit manufacturing plants.The audit methodology included personal interviews, observation, document/record reviews and Custom Silicon Solutions Audit check list. The Audit included the review of the following: process flow, ... http://blog.customsiliconsolutions.com/uncategorized/new-supplier-qa-audit CSS participated in the UCLA Golf Classic at Cota de Caza Golf Club on May 3, 2010 in Orange County, California. Now in its ninth consecutive year, the UCLA Golf Classic is the largest and most anticipated Bruin fundraiser in Orange County.  Benefiting the UCLA Alumni Association's Scholarship Program, the UCLA ... http://blog.customsiliconsolutions.com/uncategorized/css-attends-the-ucla-golf-classic CSS has hired Mike McDaid as its Director of Sales. Mike was previously the Senior Account Manager at Smart Modular Technologies, Inc., a publicly held designer and manufacturer of memory subsystems. Prior, Mike was the Area Sales Manager for Netlist, Inc., and the Director of OEM Sales for Viking ... http://blog.customsiliconsolutions.com/uncategorized/mike-mcdaid-joins-css-as-director-of-sales Lower system power comes naturally for an ASIC.  By combining separate digital and analog functions in one chip, power is automatically reduced as the capacitance between these functions is dramatically reduced.   Power reductions of 2X to 10X are possible with no sacrifice in performance. Even more power reduction can often be ... http://blog.customsiliconsolutions.com/uncategorized/very-low-power-asics Custom Silicon Solutions was invited to attend the ON Semiconductors Executive Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona during the last week in February.  This annual event provides an opportunity for ON’s major customers to meet one-on-one with ON Executives and discuss how to work together more productively.  The 3-day event consisted of ... http://blog.customsiliconsolutions.com/uncategorized/on-semiconductor-executive-conference-february-2010 Many of our customers have very long-term program lifetimes. We have experienced program lifetimes over 20 years – from initial design of the ASIC through high volume production to the decline of sales prior to development of a replacement product.   ASIC development requires our commitment to provide the ... http://blog.customsiliconsolutions.com/uncategorized/%e2%80%9ccontinued-customer-support%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-a-fundamental-requirement-for-asic-vendors I attended key sessions of the SoC (System on a Chip) conference in Newport Beach in November. I found a panel discussion titled "Exploring Opportunities for the Integration of Silicon and Biotechnology" to be of particular interest since CSS has developed ASICs for biomedical and medical instrument applications. The panel ... http://blog.customsiliconsolutions.com/uncategorized/css-attends-november-soc-conference The CSS555C, a micro-power, programmable, 555 type timer, was selected as Finalist for Best 2009 Product in the Design News Golden Mousetrap Design Contest.  Frank Bohac, Head of Design at CSS, is the proud designer of this innovative product.  The product specifications can be viewed in the CSS website at ... http://blog.customsiliconsolutions.com/uncategorized/css555c-%e2%80%93-2009-best-product-finalist Earlier this year in this Blog, I discussed the advantages of a custom mixed-signal ASIC.  Saving money in production over the costs of the components it replaces is one of these advantages.  However, to save money, the savings in production should compensate for the development costs (NRE) in a reasonable ... http://blog.customsiliconsolutions.com/uncategorized/custom-asic-development-cost-considerations Custom Silicon Solutions (CSS) has just released SPICE simulation models for our CSS555 and CSS555C ICs.  These models provide a simulation capability at the component level.  To make them portable across many simulators, only Level 1 device models are used.  The voltage comparators are modeled with BLM gain blocks to ... http://blog.customsiliconsolutions.com/uncategorized/spice-models-for-csss-555-timer-are-now-available