IC’Alps, designing ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) and ams OSRAM, a global leader in innovative light and sensor solutions, announced that they enter in a foundry partnership agreement.
The Preferred Foundry Partner network, powered by ams OSRAM, aims at facilitating access to semiconductor foundry services for ASIC design houses like IC’Alps in order to achieve fast and reliable market launch of customized ICs and early access to new design and/or process data.
IC'Alps pursues its commitment in building a strong European semiconductor ecosystem and is very pleased to offer its design expertise in custom digital, analog and mixed-signal circuits to ams OSRAM’s foundry customers.
“We're proud to have been selected and are eager to transform this partnership into meaningful value for our customers”, shared Lucille Engels, COO of IC’Alps. “Joining this network strengthens our capabilities as an independent design house, providing cutting-edge technical solutions close to the technology nodes that align with our clients' specific needs.”
“We are excited to have IC’Alps join our Preferred Foundry Partner network as an ASIC design house with experience and expertise perfectly suited to take advantage of our semiconductor manufacturing facility in Austria,” said Mahdi Mekic, Director of ams OSRAM’s Full Service Foundry. “Our industry-standard technology nodes and variety of process options are specifically tailored for industrial, automotive, medical and other applications where long-term, high-quality, and stable supply is crucial. We believe that IC’Alps’s customers in these markets will be reaping significant benefits from our future collaboration.”
About ams OSRAM | https://ams-osram.com
The ams OSRAM Group (SIX: AMS) is a global leader in intelligent sensors and emitters. By adding intelligence to light and passion to innovation, we enrich people’s lives.
With over 110 years of combined history, our core is defined by imagination, deep engineering expertise and the ability to provide global industrial capacity in sensor and light technologies. We create exciting innovations that enable our customers in the automotive, industrial, medical and consumer markets to maintain their competitive edge and drive innovation that meaningfully improves the quality of life in terms of health, safety and convenience, while reducing impact on the environment.
Our around 20,000 employees worldwide focus on innovation across sensing, illumination and visualization to make journeys safer, medical diagnosis more accurate and daily moments in communication a richer experience. Our work creates technology for breakthrough applications, which is reflected in over 15,000 patents granted and applied. Headquartered in Premstaetten/Graz (Austria) with a co-headquarters in Munich (Germany), the group achieved EUR 3.6 billion revenues in 2023 and is listed as ams-OSRAM AG on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ISIN: AT0000A18XM4).
About IC’Alps | http://www.icalps.com
IC’Alps is your one-stop-shop ASIC partner. Based in France (HQ in Grenoble, two design centers in Grenoble and Toulouse), the company provides customers with a complete offering for Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and Systems on Chip (SoC) development from circuit specification, mastering design in-house, up to the management of the entire production supply chain. Its areas of expertise include analogic, digital and mixed-signal circuits (sensor/MEMS interfaces, ultra-low power consumption, power management, high-resolution converters, high voltage, signal processing, ARM and RISC-V based multiprocessors architectures, hardware accelerators) on technologies from 0.18 μm down to 5 nm, and from multiple foundries.
The company is active worldwide in medical, industrial, automotive, IoT, IA, mil-aero and digital identity & security sectors. IC’Alps is ISO 9001:2015, ISO 13485:2016, EN 9100:2018 certified, Common Criteria on-demand, IATF16949-ready, member of TSMC Design Center Alliance (DCA), ams OSRAM Preferred Partner and X-FAB’s partner network.