partners in electronic design
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IC Architecture and Design Services, System Consulting and Circuit Design Contract Research | ||
| At the start of a typical project we assist customers in translating their system requirements into a suitable IC architecture with agreed target specifications. After that we take care of the design and layout of the integrated circuit. For circuit realisation we have access to a wide set of processes based on Silicon, Silicon-Germanium and Gallium-Arsenide, and our expertise covers Bipolar, CMOS and BiCMOS technologies. The semiconductor manufacturer receives verified GDSII computer data as well as assembly and test information. |
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| Prototype samples are evaluated
in our own fully equipped measurement labs. Upon positive evaluation results we offer
the manufacturer support to facilitate release to production. In summary, Catena is well positioned to offer added value to its customers by generating creative solutions for new and existing design challenges. | ||
Rather than providing extra design capacity, Catena's
focus is to be a true R&D partner allowing the customer to fully benefit from its high
level of expertise.
Today the Catena IC design group has evolved in a leading independent IC design force employing more than 70 engineers. Our multinational design team has been carefully selected to guarantee the highest level of skills in the design of analog, mixed signal and DSP ICs with a strong focus on RF well into the GHz range. Our DSP design involves hardware and embedded software. | ||
| Secure Customer Investment | ||
| Our customers bring to the Catena Design Centers their strategic R&D for system and circuit design. Any delay will cause problems for their planned market introduction of their IC. Therefore we have invested powerful fileservers in each Design Center as well as tapestreamers to save our engineers work and our customers investment. | ||
| Flexibility for the Customer | ||
| Due to our secured fibre optic connections between our Design Centers in Kista, Delft and Eindhoven our customers benefit from the best specialists working together in one dedicated intracompany project team. The project data are shared and only accessible on a "need to know basis" by project team members. Data are stored per one time per hour "snapshots" in decentralized file servers and furthermore protected by tapestreamers and the separate storage of tapes. | ||
| Our Expertise | ||
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Medical Electronics - Instrumentation Consumer Radio - Cellular communication:
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Wireless Data Communication:
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| Major Foundries | Major Customers | |
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| Design Center Locations | ||
| Catena Microelectronics bv Delftechpark Delft, the Netherlands
Catena Wireless Electronics AB
Catena Radio Design bv
Catena Digital Signal Processing GmbH
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