Full Service Foundry presents sensors for electronic trends

Current market trends such as the IoT, Wearables, Industry 4.0 and Smart Cities will substantially drive global semiconductor growth and innovations in microelectronics. Novel actuators and sensing solutions will enable a variety of new products, thus creating numerous business opportunities for established businesses and innovative start-ups.

Offering a comprehensive PDK and IP block portfolio, advanced process technologies as well as product qualification services and supply chain management capabilities, ams’ Full Service Foundry division enables customers to develop advanced solutions for applications such as environmental monitoring, infrastructure and energy management, facility and home automation and transportation as well as wearables, medical and healthcare monitoring systems.

Specialty wafer manufacturing technologies such as high-voltage CMOS to create MEMS driver ICs and switches, SiGe-BiCMOS for low noise and high speed sensor interfaces, ultra-low leakage libraries to extend the operating time of battery powered applications, and monolithic and heterogeneous integration technologies provide a proven route to ‘first-time-right’ designs for a wide range of SoC and SiP solutions.

“Riding the IoT-wave, our partners have to cope with an increasing systems complexity while their time-to-market is constantly getting shorter,” commented Markus Wuchse, General Manager, Full Service Foundry, ams. “As we are part of an IDM with an advanced sensor solutions portfolio, our foundry customers can significantly mitigate their development risks by accessing our huge IP portfolio and reduce their efforts and development cycles utilising our turnkey solutions offerings.”