Triad Semiconductor

Size, weight, and power are everything for mission-critical military and aerospace applications such as secure radios, man-packs, UAVs, avionics, satellites, munitions systems, and vehicle health monitoring systems. These applications demand high performance analog and digital processing while staying within the stringent size, weight, and power requirements that only an ASIC solution can provide. Triad’s via-configurable array (VCA) technology is the disruptive solution that defense industry designers need to rapidly and inexpensively create single chip mixed signal solutions for tomorrow’s applications.

Smart sensors are a key component in today’s industrial environment. Temperature, pressure, torque, displacement and humidity are a few of the measurements that are now typical for today’s industrial customer. These measurements need to be converted from an analog measurement to the digital domain. The digital information is processed and sent through a digital communications link. The drive to incorporate the latest technology at the lowest cost makes the Triad ASIC solution a top design priority.

The healthcare market is moving toward devices that require less power and smaller size. Blood glucose monitoring, implantables, defibrillators, temperature sensors, and bioelectric amplifiers all fit into this category. Triad Semiconductor has design experience to turn a discrete implementation into a low-cost, low power configurable ASIC that will reduce time to market.

Markets move fast.  Product development must keep ahead of the curve.  Demands of size and cost are constantly putting pressure on designers.  Automotive products require sensor interfaces; combined with digital processing and communication bus requirements.  Designers are driven to look for the lowest cost solution.  The Triad Semiconductor mixed signal ASIC meets that need.  Triad has the design experience for the automotive segment and will design your mixed signal ASIC using our silicon-proven IP.  Combine that with the benefits of VCA technology and you have a low-risk approach to your production ASIC.

System requirements for multiple power planes, several voltage levels, power sequencing, sleep mode power, high-voltage LED drivers, quality audio processing, and intelligent control of these functions has led to the need for mixed-signal ASICs that sweep up a variety of analog functions for costs savings, performance, and integration. Portable electronics include a wide range of supply voltages: 1.8V and 3.3V for digital ICs, 4.2V for a Lithium-ion battery, 5V for legacy interfaces, 36V for LED backlighting, isolated voltages for sensitive analog circuits, and high voltages for motor control.