Custom Silicon Solutions, Inc.

Empowering Success Through Custom ASICs

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About the firm

Custom Silicon Solutions, Inc. (CSS) is a fabless application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) developer headquartered in Irvine, California. It designs and manufactures custom mixed-signal, analog, high-voltage, and wireless communication integrated circuits. Founded in 1996, CSS has completed over 300 tape-outs with a record of success on fully committed programs. It operates an 8,000-square-foot in-house test facility in Irvine for wafer probe and final packaged production testing, partnering with leading integrated circuit foundries and assembly houses to manage full product lifecycles for the industrial, medical, aerospace, defense, and consumer electronics markets.

Established
1996
Firm type
Electrical Engineering · Aerospace Engineering · Defense Engineering · Telecom / RF Engineering · Automation & Controls

Capabilities

Turnkey ASIC Development

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End-to-end custom ASIC development managing the complete lifecycle from concept and specifications through design, wafer fabrication, packaging, and testing.

  • High-Voltage IC Design

    Robust high-voltage layouts and protection strategies for amplifiers, drivers, and switches in BCD technologies.

  • Sensors and MEMS Interfacing

    Interface circuits designed to support resistive, capacitive, inductive, and magnetic sensors and transducers.

  • Ultra-Low Power Design

    Power-optimized designs featuring wireless energy harvesting, subthreshold operation, and duty-cycled modes for battery-free and implantable electronics.

  • Precision Analog and Data Converters

    High-resolution data conversion blocks including Flash, SAR, and Sigma-Delta ADCs alongside resistive, capacitive, and current-mirror DACs.

  • Wireless Communications IC Design

    Integrated RF circuitry including LNAs, mixers, VCOs, and power amplifiers for wide-band and sub-1 GHz transceivers.

Obsolete IC Replacement and Redesign

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Drop-in replacement solutions that reconstruct obsolete microchips into modern process technologies using original schematics, netlists, or functional specifications.

In-House Testing and Assembly Management

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Wafer probe, final packaged production testing, and assembly logistics managed through an 8,000-square-foot in-house test facility and strategic manufacturing partnerships.

Industries

Industrial · Medical Devices · Defense · Aerospace · Electronics · Semiconductors

Projects

Downhole Drilling ASIC

Industrial

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A robust analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit engineered to operate continuously in high-temperature, high-emission industrial environments.

Breast Cancer Marker IC

Medical Devices

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A highly integrated medical device ASIC developed to support precise signal processing and diagnostic monitoring in cancer therapy.

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