Online calculator estimates your BOM savings with mixed-signal ICs
With this approach, the company promises cost savings of up to 80% over the lifetime of its customers’ projects. S3 Semiconductors’ new web site includes a simple online calculator that gives customers a first estimate of their potential savings.
Other benefits of custom chips include reduced system size, improved electrical performance, lower power consumption, and greater security, including protection from reverse-engineering.
As an established semiconductor design house, S3semi has completed over 1000 successful mixed-signal chip designs for use in industrial and communications markets. Simultaneously, the firm has created an intellectual property (IP) portfolio spanning analog front ends, clocks, data converters, power management, RF transceivers and temperature sensors.
“For several years now, we’ve been discussing with a growing number of our OEM customers the challenges they face with driving down system costs and differentiating their products,” says John O’Brien, CEO of parent company, S3 Group.
Consolidation of the semiconductor industry over the past few years means that fewer large vendors are willing to respond to the needs of OEMs serving niche or low- to medium-volume, long-lifetime markets. S3semi is one of a new breed of custom semiconductor vendors that can fill the gap.
Unlike most semiconductor manufacturers today, S3semi designs each chip for only one customer and engages at the system level, not the chip level. The company can design and manufacture chips that integrate the analog circuitry to interface to sensors, power supplies, electric motors, actuators and other real-world electrical signals with digital processors, memory and control logic. These mixed-signal chips deliver a cost-effective combination of local intelligence, sensor fusion and communications.
S3 Semiconductors – www.s3semi.com
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