Overview
StarIC’s expertise in analog/mixed-signal design is unlocking the future by propelling the integration of silicon photonics with electronics. Our IP portfolio for the Global Foundries Fotonix™ process provides foundational building IP for silicon photonics, fostering innovation and offering solutions to those building revolutionary technologies for the new era of data. As a strategic partner of Global Foundries, we’re committed to developing a comprehensive roadmap of IPs and Platform Solutions to support a robust silicon photonics connectivity ecosystem.
GF Fotonix is a monolithic platform, the first in the industry to combine its differentiated 300mm photonics features and 300GHz-class RF-CMOS on a silicon wafer, delivering best-in-class performance at scale. A next generation process, Fotonix™ is a widely disruptive silicon photonics platform which has active design wins with major customers and has achieved significant market share today and expects its growth in this segment to outpace the market. The GF Fotonix platform has seen adoption by major players in AI, Quantum computing, and optical interconnect for data centers.
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A software-defined radio (SDR) terminal promotes programmable realizations of the physical layer functionalities. A lot of research work has been done in applying DSPs and FPGAs to implement the baseband functionalities of the physical layer.
As AI workloads scale exponentially, bandwidth has become the new bottleneck. This article explores how Celestial AI’s Photonic Fabric™ redefines interconnect performance, and how Sofics’ low-cap ESD and power clamp IP enabled its integration on TSMC’s 5nm platform.
In this fourth part of Paving the way for the next generation audio codec for True Wireless Stereo (TWS) applications whitepaper, the pure audio performance will be discussed.
This paper describes a CSoC platform and configurable digital subsystem IP which can be deployed for development of IOT edge devices. The paper encompasses the different attributes of IOT edge device that can cater multiple industry segments, key features and benefits of CSoC platform, components of the digital subsystem IP that enables rapid prototyping of SoCs for IOT applications.
This article discusses practical application of a combined Binary FSK and PSK modulator. It highlights how embedded resources can be used to implement an all-digital FSK / PSK modulator, which modulates serial data transmission of a UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver and Transmitter).
In this paper, we will attempt to explain sigma delta converters with a non-mathematical approach, covering the basic concepts of noise shaping and oversampling, explained with the help of some examples. These concepts along with digital decimation filters are later incorporated together to reveal the magic behind sigma delta converters. This paper also covers the basics of first and second order sigma delta ADCs and how the order of the sigma delta modulator impacts the performance of the ADC.