DERA provides a complete ASIC design and prototyping service - committing circuits onto industrial gate arrays using direct-write patterning. This offers cost-effective access to small quantities of silicon circuits for feasibility studies etc. via fast turn-around of prototypes and multiple design variations on-wafer. A route to higher volume chip manufacture is available through the gate array supplier. Low risk designs/prototypes can be implemented in mixed-signal CMOS gate arrays or the well-established GPS "DA" and "DX" bipolar array series offering both high performance analogue and digital functions. Applications range from high voltage, good drive capability circuits to high speed mixed-signal circuits incorporating 4000 equivalent gates.

Prime:		Design / Prototyping
Subsidiary:		Consulting
Employees:		<10

	PLD		FPGA		Masked ASIC
	Microcontroller		Other

Military, Communications, Consumer, Automotive, Industrial

PC Based:	YES	Other:	YES
Details:	DERA can work with the customer to produce designs using tools available in-house. Alternatively, design data can be exchanged in Verilog, Cadence or GDSII formats.