Design Services

FMAX offers analog and mixed-signal design services ranging from basic verification and IC layout services to the design of state-of-the-art mixed signal circuits. At FMAX, customers access highly experienced mixed signal design engineers each with 20-30 years of design experience. Final deliverable product may be an IC, such as an ASIC, or just an IP block. Many projects start with a limited scope feasibility study.

Design Competencies

• Integer-N PLL 
• Frac-N PLL
• Low Noise Frequency Synthesis
• Data Conversion
• CMOS Micropower (5nA BGAP/PTAT, nA Power Conversion)
• Low Noise VCOs
• Trans-impedance Amplifiers for Opto-electronic Receivers
• Clock and Data Recovery
• SerDes Data Aggregator
• Wide Bandwidth Sample and Hold
• Power Supply / Voltage Regulation
• Micropower CMOS BandGap; PTAT; Voltage Conversion
• I2C
• Digital PLL
• Time Domain Reflectometer
• FPGA and/or Verilog-A Architecture Proof of concept
• Up to 60 Gbaud PAM4

Specialized Board Fabrication

• 40 GHz Controlled Impedance
• Chip-Scale-Packaging

Infrastructure

• High Performance Multi-Core CPU Simulators
• Verilog-A / Device-level SPICE integration
• Verilog-A Based Verification Methodology
• Remote Office VPN

​Process Experience CMOS / SiGe 

• X-FAB XC06, XH035
• TSMC 350nm, 180nm, 90nm, 65nm, 40nm, 28nm
• IBM-7RF (180nm SOI)
• IBM-7HP(180nm Emitter Length SiGe)
• IBM-8HP(130nm Emitter Length SiGe)
• IBM-9HP(90nm Emitter Length SiGe)
• IHP SG13G2Cu(130nm Emitter Length SiGe w/ 4 Cu layers)

​ IC Layout Tools

• Cadence
• Silvaco
• Customer Provided VPN / VNC