Our Expertise

The Institute has an in-house design team drawn from industry. The team has a breadth of experience, including the following areas:

• Analogue IC design in CMOS and bipolar including both high-speed and high-performance circuit techniques
• Mixed-signal IC design
• High-performance and high-complexity ASICs in application areas including communications, design for low-power and signal conditioning electronics
• Applications areas such as wire and fibre communications, clock / data recovery, transducer and optical signal conditioning electronics
• Various technologies such as CMOS, CMOS-SOS, Bipolar, BiCMOS and BCDMOS and familiarity with leading fabs and processes
• High-speed digital design, IP integration and reuse
• FPGA design
• Power management and techniques for low-power design
• Familiarity with leading EDA toolsets
• Image processing system design
• Wireless protocol stack design (Bluetooth)
• Cryptography
• Mathematical modelling
• Networked systems
• Embedded software design skills
• Open source software development (Linux, eCos)
• MEMS design and development capability
• Polarisation and birefringence applications to optical metrology equipment
• MEMS product line, including specification, design, test and validation
• Performance and yield evaluation coupled to root cause analysis for improvements in design