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Sigenics, Inc.

Excellence in Silicon

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About the firm

Sigenics is a fabless semiconductor engineering organization headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with an additional design center in Los Osos, California. With more than 21 years of integrated circuit experience, Sigenics specializes in the design, testing, and turnkey delivery of custom application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for sensor, analog, and mixed-signal applications. It serves medical, military and aerospace, industrial, and obsolete part replacement markets. Sigenics manages the full ASIC development lifecycle from specification and schematic design through physical layout, prototype tapeout, and production test development, partnering with external semiconductor foundries for fabrication. Medical expertise includes neural stimulation, neural signal acquisition, and implantable or wireless biomedical devices developed for NIH and DARPA programs.

Firm type
Electrical Engineering

Credentials

QMED certification

Capabilities

Custom ASIC Design

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Turnkey development of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) from specification through layout, fabrication coordination, and production testing.

  • Specification Development

    Collaborative definition of ASIC operational requirements and terminal characteristics to ensure the design satisfies end-application needs.

  • Acceptance Test Plan (ATP) Development

    Creation of comprehensive testing protocols using hardware simulations and physical equipment to verify prototype performance.

  • Schematic Design

    Process selection, architecture definition, functional block modeling, top-level assembly, and circuit simulations over extreme environments.

  • ASIC Physical Layout

    Transistor-level layout, Design Rule Check (DRC), Layout Versus Schematic (LVS) verification, and post-layout parasitic extraction.

  • Prototype Tapeout

    Coordination of layout submission to the semiconductor foundry, die packaging, and prototype testing.

  • Production Test Development

    Design of probe cards and automated wafer prober testing programs to verify each die on the production wafers.

Medical IC Design

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Biomedical ASIC design specializing in neural interface, telemetry, and implantable medical technology.

  • Implantable Medical Devices

    Design of passive, magnetically powered, and wireless implantable devices for medical applications.

  • Biomedical Telemetry Systems

    Development of wireless data and power transfer solutions using high-intensity magnetic fields.

  • Neural Recording and Stimulating Interfaces

    Design of highly precise interfaces for neural recording and stimulating electrode arrays.

Avionics and Defense IC Design

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Custom aerospace microelectronics designed to withstand extreme environments, including space-grade radiation and temperature variations.

  • Legacy Avionics Replacement

    Reverse engineering and custom ASIC design to replace obsolete commercial and military aviation microelectronics.

  • Radiation-Hardened Design

    Development of space-grade analog power drivers and sensing systems built on radiation-hardened processes.

Industrial IC Design

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Integrated circuit design for industrial automation, power management, and wireless monitoring networks.

  • Power Management

    Design of integrated power management, high voltage and current drives, and power line drivers.

  • Sensor Interface Design

    Development of low-power, high-gain precision amplifiers and sensor interface circuits.

Obsolete Part Replacement

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Form, fit, and function matching replacements for legacy integrated circuits through systematic reverse engineering.

Industries

Healthcare · Medical Devices · Aerospace · Defense · Industrial · Semiconductors

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