Custom IC Design Services

Complement your team’s skills and development capabilities by outsourcing your custom
ASIC / SoC design

We offer custom design services to complement your team, help you achieve your innovation or accelerate your analog, digital or mixed-signal custom ASIC/SoC projects.

Turnkey ASIC Design & Supply

Everything you need for a successful ASIC project from system concept to the delivery of packaged custom integrated chips.

TSMC Design Center Alliance

TSMC selects IC’Alps as a Design Center Alliance (DCA) member.

IC'Alps, a concentrate of skills

Custom Integrated Circuits are at the heart of innovations in Healthcare, Industrial applications, IoT, Automotive and Aeronautics, Space & Defence. These are just a few of the growing number of applications for ASICs.

A large experience to ensure first-time-right ASIC projects

Acting as an independent design house, you can rely on our in-house pool of highly-trained and skilled experts to provide you with the IC design services that perfectly match your project needs, budget and schedule.

Technology nodes

From 0.35 µm down to 5 nm

Processes

CMOS, BICMOS, Bulk, SOI, FDSOI, HVCMOS, BCD, etc.

Foundries

TSMC, XFab, Tower Semiconductor, Global Foundries, STMircroelectronics, Skywater, Key Foundry, Vanguard, UMC, SMIC, Dongbu

We were extremely pleased with IC’Alps’ work on our demo chip for SkyWater’s 130nm process. The IC’Alps team is highly skilled with all aspects of physical implementation, from RTL-to-GDS implementation to tape-out. They met schedule and quality targets, and the chip is fully functional.

Ilan Sever

Vice-President of R&D – Weebit Nano

By collaborating with IC’Alps for back-end implementation, Tiempo is now able to provide its customers with a wider choice in terms of technology.

Serge Maginot

Chief Executive Officer

IC'Alps conducted a feasibility study for an in-house design of Valid’s SIM cards. The guidance from IC'Alps' teams allowed us to study this alternative to our off-the-shelf suppliers with full confidence. Diving in the analysis of the cost structure and the chip side, we now have a better understanding of the ASIC solution at-hand.

Bertrand Moussel

Product Marketing Director - Mobile Telecom & ID

A-la-carte partnerships

From our design centers in Grenoble and Toulouse, using our infrastructure and EDA licenses, we can handle any part of an IC design process, the choice is yours.

Possible IC design cooperation includes:

Circuit architecture/partitioning definition and analysis
Performance assessment of ASIC libraries and IP in various technologies
Digital partition from specification to layout (GDSII)
Analog schematics and layout activity
RTL Design and Verification
Mixed-signal IC verification
Silicon measurements and simulations results
FPGA to ASIC migration
RTL2GDSII at partition level, at top level
Consultancy of expertise
Functional Safety Engineering Analysis support
Integrate DFM & DFT standards to reach highest level of Quality
Boards from chip-level to application level test (Evaluation, EMC, Pin FMEA, Debug , and Validation)
Design For Test and Test Hardware guidance for Test Cost Reduction
Product and application supports ( System demonstration, application notes and documentations)

Interested by our a-la-carte design services?

Our IP strategy gives your design a head-start

To provide our customers with differentiated IC architectures and a quick turnaround time to market we generally combine in-house analog and digital blocks, and some third party IPs in the areas of MCU, high speed SERDES, standardized communication interfaces, etc.

The benefits of this approach are:

Time saving through capitalization of our IP library and re-use of standard blocks
Lower cost compared to full in-house design
Reduced risk with silicon proven subsystems
Best possible performance across a variety of technologies

A proven design methodology

From specification to silicon, our team has developed robust and trusted design flows to build flawless analog, mixed-signal or digital ASICs from beginning to end.

Our design flows are certified according to ISO 9001:2016, ISO 13485:2016, EN 9100:2018, Common Criteria and IATF-16949 ready.