Alphacore’s Complete Leading-Edge ASIC Design Services
Alphacore delivers custom, high-performance ASICs that push the limits of speed, precision, power efficiency, and reliability. Our team specializes in:
- Analog, mixed-signal, and RF/mmWave design
- High-speed data converters and clocking
- Sensor and radar front-ends
- Radiation-tolerant/rad-hard-by-design circuits; and
- Digital integration for full SoC solutions.
We engage with customers to deliver their proprietary ASICs from architecture through tape-out, production test, and lifecycle support, with silicon-proven IP blocks and rigorous ISO 9001–aligned quality processes.
Our proven IP building blocks and modeling tools helps us accelerate delivery by conducting trade-off analyses and optimizing our designs—device by device—for bandwidth, noise, linearity, dynamic range, latency, power consumption, area and environmental targets.
Our IP portfolio is also available for licensing and integration into your own designs.
Alphacore’s strength is our people—an interdisciplinary team of experienced scientists and designers who partner closely with customers to deliver high-performance ASIC solutions that are right the first time. From concept through production, we embed ourselves in your system development task, translating tough system requirements into silicon that elevates performance, reliability, and time-to-market.
Our engineers span analog/mixed-signal, RF/mmWave, high-speed I/O, data converters, sensor interfaces, power management, radiation-tolerant and low-power design. That depth lets us optimize a comprehensive approach to product development: architecture, transistor-level circuits, layout, verification, and test. We bring proven IP building blocks and modeling tools to accelerate deliveries, then optimizing our designs the —device by device—for bandwidth, noise, linearity, dynamic range, latency, and environmental targets.
Collaboration is structured and transparent. We begin with engineering team discussions to refine requirements and risk areas. System and behavioral models, power consumption, and area considerations are used to evaluate early trade-offs. A formal Preliminary Design Review process produces measurable checkpoints for specification parameters that will be tested with rigorous simulation, corner/Monte Carlo analysis, and mixed-signal verification.
Because many programs operate in constrained or extreme environments, our team applies reliability and rad-hard-by-design techniques, robust ESD/Latch-Up protection, and packaging co-design to ensure field-ready performance.
For long-life systems and DMSMS (Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages) concerns, we offer form-fit-function replacements and lifecycle support, including documentation, qualification, and production test solutions. Under our quality management system (ISO 9001), you can expect disciplined change control, clear communication, and on-time delivery.
The result: custom ASICs that meet demanding specifications with fewer surprises—achieved through genuine partnership, deep technical rigor, and a relentless focus on our customers’ success.
Completed ASIC examples include:
Alphacore’s Impulse Radar Transceiver application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed for Multi-Static Ground Penetrating Radar Applications. The product employs 1024 parallel samplers for maximum frame depth and sensitivity. It also has fully programmable frame offset for extensive detection range. It incorporates 14-bit ADCs with programmable sampling frequencies, a FIFO ADC buffer with SPI bus readout (with SPI I/O for readout control), low supply voltage, and packaged in a 64-pin land grid array (LGA) package.
Alphacore’s Radiation-Hardened 60V Isolated/Non-Isolated Buck Converter ASIC is a radiation hardened, 60V input, 1V to 15V output DC-DC controller. The IC can be configured as a non-isolated (10A max load current) or as an isolated (3A max load current) buck converter. The isolated configuration uses the primary-side feedback to regulate the output voltage, eliminating the need for optocouplers. This, in addition of integrated high-side and low-side MOSFETs, high frequency of operation and integration of the necessary auxiliary 5V and 1.8V voltage regulators assures smallest possible footprint.
- Turnkey production support: Test program development, characterization, qualification, and yield ramp.
- Custom ASIC/SoC development: Architecture, modeling, schematic/layout, verification, DFT/DFM, packaging, and test.
- Analog & mixed-signal excellence: Using silicon verified ADC/DACs, PLLs/CDRs, LNAs/PA drivers, precision references, ultra-low-jitter clocking.
- RF & radar transceivers: Impulse/UWB radar, high-speed links, and robust front-ends for contested environments.
- Radiation-tolerant design: Rad-hard-by-design libraries and methodologies for space and high-reliability markets.
- Obsolescence/DMSMS replacement: Form-fit-function reimplementation to secure long term supply and matching performance.
A Genuine Partnership for Customer Success
Because many programs operate in constrained or extreme environments, our team applies reliability and rad-hard-by design techniques, robust ESD/latchup protection, and packaging co-design to ensure field-ready performance. The result: custom ASICs that meet demanding specifications with fewer surprises, and with superior characteristics such as:
- Performance headroom: Best-in-class SNR, bandwidth, jitter, and linearity to unlock new system capabilities.
- Lower SWaP-C: Integration reduces size, weight, power, and total cost versus multi-chip or COTS solutions.
- Faster time-to-mission: Reusable IP, proven flows, and disciplined project management compress schedules and risk.
- Assured reliability: Radiation-tolerant options, comprehensive verification, and production-grade test ensure mission success.
- Supply security: DMSMS redesigns and multi-foundry options stabilize long-term availability.
- Quality you can trust: ISO 9001 practices, thorough documentation, and lifecycle support from prototype to volume.
Whether you need a cutting-edge sensor front-end, a high-speed data path, or a full custom SoC, Alphacore partners with you to deliver silicon that meets your exact specifications—on performance, on schedule, and on budget.
