Mixed Signal/Analog

Improving the performance of your mobile

26th January 2016
Joe Bush
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It has been announced that the Circuit Seed family from InventionShare, a family of circuit building blocks for processing analogue signals using fully digital components and design flow, are now able to improve functionally of mobile phone offerings from all manufacturers. The graphic below shows the impact of Circuit Seed on a smartphone.

Speaking from his Ottawa office, InventionShare CEO Greg Waite commented that this is a significant breakthrough and a game changer for the mobile phone industry. Circuit Seed’s new foundation inventions can extend battery life, extend signal quality and range, increase screen sensitivity, reduce the number of circuits, provide better screen resolution and provide high fidelity audio integrity.

“By integrating digital circuits processing analogue signals that are low power there is an opportunity to satisfy the large segments of the consumer and business markets that just want a much better experience,” said Waite.

Circuit Seed has introduced a shift in the existing way of designing analogue circuits, effectively eliminating many of the known shortcomings. This includes precision without precision parts; ultra-linear operation over an extreme dynamic range (>106); low noise, ultra-high speed (analogue at logic speed) and extreme low voltage (down to ~0.1V power supply); process parameter independence; compact footprint (amplifiers about the size of a couple of NAND gates); low power (~100uW for multi-GHz range operation down to 10pW for KHz-range operation); portable designs between ultra-deep sub-µm CMOS technology process nodes. This paradigm shift has eliminated the use of current mirrors or differential matched pairs with traditional bulky analogue transistors while being able to recover from sleep mode at logic speed.

Simulation and silicon test results have demonstrated a dramatic reduction in power, better performance and higher accuracy, all with small integrated circuit footprints. The circuit designs are much simpler, reducing product costs with faster development, so less testing is required and there are fewer parts to assemble.

Waite added: “Semiconductor companies are always looking for ways to support Manufacturers’ ever increasing demands to make products that are smaller, lighter, faster - products that consume less power, give off less heat and that are easier, quicker and less expensive to design, manufacture and test. They want products with fewer parts that offer higher reliability and lower total product costs.”

InventionShare is now looking for strategic partners who want to incorporate Circuit Seed technology into its product offerings, leveraging market share, profitability through competitive feature set and manufacturing advantages.

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