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Borsbeeksebrug 36

2600 Antwerp, Belgium

Phone: +32 477 96 82 63

Email: stefano.guerrieri@ams-osram.com

Web: www.ams-osram.com

ams OSRAM group, a global leader in sensing, illumination and visualization technology has its headquarters in Austria and Germany, around 21,000 employees as well as over 15,000 patents in various fields. Their innovation focuses to enable key trends such as digitization, automotive mobility, Industry 4.0/5.0, vertical farming, energy efficiency, the metaverse, advanced medical imaging, AR/VR, advanced biometrics and more.

They operate in the automotive, consumer, industrial and medical markets, while also pursue specific opportunities in the consumer device semiconductor market where they can achieve sustainable differentiation through cutting-edge innovation.

Their unique expertise in intelligent emitting, directing, sensing and processing light, paired with deep system and application understanding, makes ams OSRAM the partner of choice for many industries.

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Eisenbahnstr. 2,

01097 Dresden, Germany

Phone: +49 35 18 99 67 55

Email: info@aspect-sys.com

Web: www.aspect-sys.com

At aSpect, they are the trusted partner for OSAT tasks and custom semiconductor backend equipment. With a relentless commitment to innovation and a wealth of experience, their team is there to help clients excel in the dynamic world of technology.

Semiconductor testing excellence
Clients can elevate their capabilities by utilizing aSpect’s ISO-5 test floor. Specializing in wafer- & final test for image sensors and ASICs they perform characterization, qualification, and production testing.

Custom supply chain management
Clients can rely on aSpect’s expertise for prototyping and efficient outsourced manufacturing. Their robust supply chain management ensures seamless operations, delivering superior results for projects.

Custom equipment
aSpect being the one-stop shop for all custom semiconductor backend needs (e.g. Test Systems, Alignment, AOI).

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HTC5, High Tech Campus 5656

AE Eindhoven

The Netherlands

Email: info@axelera.ai

Web: www.axelera.ai

Axelera AI delivers the world’s most advanced solutions for AI at the Edge. Its MetisTM AI platform—a complete hardware and software solution for AI inference—redefines computer vision by making it more accessible, powerful, and user-friendly.

Metis AI Processing Unit (AIPU) is powered by proprietary D-IMC and RISC-V controlled dataflow technology. It offers superior performance and efficiency at a fraction of the cost, while a built-in security engine safeguards sensitive data. Scalable and integrated into AI acceleration cards, boards and vision-ready systems.

The click-and-run Voyager SDK, a complete software stack, simplifies AI integration by offering ready-to-use neural networks for computer vision and, in the future, natural language processing.

Based in the AI Innovation Center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Axelera AI has R&D offices in Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and the UK, with over 195 employees in 18 countries.

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Westerring 15

9700 Oudenaarde, Belgium

Phone: +32 55 33 22 11

Email: kapple.wang@belgan.com

Web: www.belgan.com

BelGaN started early 2022 from the acquisition of the semiconductor manufacturing Fab, R&D teams and some of the supporting organizations of onsemi in Belgium. The vision is to become a leading, automotive qualified, open foundry for WBG (GaN) technologies localized at the heart of Europe.

Serving their customers in broad consumer-, industrial- and automotive– markets with innovative, high-quality and competitive GaN semiconductor technologies and manufacturing capacity, to innovate their products towards higher energy efficiency, smaller size/weight, and better cost towards a future prosperous and carbon-neutral society.

BelGaN is the largest semiconductor company in Flanders, with >450 high tech employees and >10yrs experience in GaN R&D.

The BelGaN Fab is expanding to 6000m2 of cleanrooms that will provide a capacity of >25000 8” GaN wafers per week (dependent on technology mix).

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Hendrik Consciencestraat, 1b

2800 Mechelen, Belgium

Phone: +32 15 71 05 03

Email: info@caeleste.be

Web: www.caeleste.be

Caeleste is your supplier of custom-designed image sensors. With unique engineering expertise they closely collaborate with world-leading companies in space, medical and industrial application areas.

They are a true partner to realize your differentiating market position with beyond state-of-the-art image sensor solutions. Caeleste’s engineering teams bring your projects from idea to prototype, from prototype to product.

Their expertise extends from high-energy particle detection, over visible light imaging to infrared hybrid sensors. Every Caeleste realization benefits from a wide IP portfolio on low noise pixels, wafer-scale X-ray, high-speed imaging and much more.

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Schaliënhoevedreef 20/I

2800 Mechelen, Belgium

Phone: +32 15 79 55 11

Email: cbeinfo@cochlear.com

Web: www.cochlear.be

As the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, at Cochlear (ASX: COH) they are committed to their mission to help people hear and be heard. Their story started more than four decades ago when Professor Graeme Clark pioneered the world’s first multi-channel cochlear implant and created an entirely new treatment for hearing loss.

Since their formation in 1981, they continue Professor Clark’s work to help people with moderate to profound hearing loss experience a life full of hearing. They have provided more than 650,000 implantable devices.

Cochlear’s global headquarters are on the campus of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia with regional headquarters in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas. Through their offices in over 180 countries they help people of all ages to hear.

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Copernicuslaan 60, bus 8

2018 Antwerpen, Belgium

Phone: +32 33 03 44 42

Email: info@gpixel.com

Web: www.gpixel.com

Gpixel is an international company specialized in providing high-end customized and off-the-shelf CMOS image sensor solutions for industrial, medical, scientific, and professional imaging applications.

Gpixel’s standard products include the GMAX and GSPRINT global shutter, fast frame rate sensors, the GSENSE high-end scientific CMOS image sensor series, the GLUX series of high sensitivity sensors for surveillance, the GL series of line scan imagers, the GLT series of TDI imagers, GTOF series of iTOF imagers, and the GCINE series of sensors for professional video and photography.

Gpixel provides a broad portfolio of products leveraging the latest technologies to meet the ever-growing demands of the professional imaging market.

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Gaston Geenslaan 10

3001 Heverlee, Belgium

Phone: +32 16 31 68 00

Email: infoberc@huawei.com

Web: www.huawei.com/eu

Huawei is a leading global telecom and ICT solutions provider with the aim of bringing digital technology to every person, home, and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. Through continuous customer-centric innovation in information distribution, interaction, transmission, processing, and storage, as well as information learning & and inference the company developed competitive products, solutions, and services for global consumers, telecom carriers, and enterprise customers. Huawei’s products and solutions have been deployed in over 100 countries and have served 45 of the world’s top 50 telecom operators, as well as one-third of the world’s population.

Huawei is an innovation powerhouse, employing over 100,000 staff and spending over 10% of its revenues on R&D, making it the 4th largest investor in R&D worldwide. Huawei employs over 2,000 researchers in Europe and has established partnerships with many universities, research institutes, and high-tech companies. The R&D team in Leuven develops next-generation RF transceivers for wireless systems and investigates emerging semiconductor technologies while the lab in Ghent is a center of excellence for silicon photonics design and processing.

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Gaston Geenslaan 14

3001 Leuven, Belgium

Phone: +32 16 58 97 00

Email: info@icsense.com

Web: www.icsense.com

ICsense is Europe’s premier IC design company and offers:
• ASIC development and production supply and
• custom IC design services.
ICsense has the largest fab-independent European design group (~100 experts) with world-class expertise in analog, digital, mixed-signal and high-voltage IC design.

Broad track record in ASIC design & production supply
The company develops and supplies customer exclusive ASIC solutions for the automotive, medical, industrial and consumer market compliant with ISO26262, ISO13485, IEC61508 and ISO9001.

Strong expertise in analog, mixed-signal & high voltage IC design
ICsense specializes in ASIC developments for sensor and MEMS interfacing, power and battery management, high-voltage drivers and ultra-low-power.

The company was founded in 2004 and is an independent subsidiary of the Japanse TDK Group since 2017.

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Kapeldreef 75

3001 Leuven, Belgium

Phone: +32 16 28 12 11

Email: info@imec.be

Web: www.imec-int.com

Imec is a world-leading research and innovation center in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. Imec leverages its state-of-the-art R&D infrastructure and its team of more than 5,500 employees and top researchers, for R&D in advanced semiconductor and system scaling, silicon photonics, artificial intelligence, beyond 5G communications and sensing technologies, and in application domains such as health and life sciences, mobility, industry 4.0, agrofood, smart cities, sustainable energy, education, … Imec unites world-industry leaders across the semiconductor value chain, Flanders-based and international tech, pharma, medical and ICT companies, start-ups, and academia and knowledge centers.

Imec is headquartered in Leuven (Belgium), and has research sites across Belgium, in the Netherlands, and representation in 3 continents. In 2022, imec’s revenue (P&L) totaled 846 million euro.

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Chemin du Cyclotron 6

1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Phone: +32 10 39 22 61

Email: sales@incize.com

Web: www.incize.com

Incize is the powerhouse for RF applications.

A technical consulting company with more than 150 years of accumulated experience, Incize provides a wide range of state-of-the-art services to enable RF semiconductor development, from simulation to characterization, modeling and PDK support, addressing problems such as substrate parasitic effects, noise, nonlinear behavior, variability and reliability.

Incize counts partners along the entire semiconductor value chain, including leading wafer manufacturers, foundries, fabless and IDMs. Incize also supports the space industry, qualifying electronic components by combining its characterization expertise with irradiation testing.

R&D is also a continuous activity at Incize, levering our services and keeping ahead of the market, paving the road for the technologies and standards of tomorrow.

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Mechelsesteenweg 120

2860 Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium

Phone: +32 496 06 36 72

Email: contact@industrialise.be

Web: www.industrialise.be

Founded in 2020, Industrialise quickly became a stable and trustworthy engineering company focusing on industrialization activities.

Combining expertise in characterization, testing, qualification, and HW/SW design, Industrialise delivers quality solutions for semiconductor or electronic module industrialization.

Unique portfolio
• MIPI C-PHY, D-PHY, and other high speed DUT interface IP
• Proprietary digital and analog T&M modules for stimuli, timing and data capture
• SW frameworks for system control, processing, analysis and reporting
• Processing pipelines for FPGA and embedded systems

Flexible services
• Characterization, test and product engineering
• Turnkey development (tester solutions for low, medium and mass volume / eval and demo kits)
• All disciplines from low-level HW to high-level SW under one roof
• Consulting on back-end engineering processes and activities

Contact

Noordlaan 21

9200 Dendermonde, Belgium

Phone: +32 52 33 98 38

Email: info@lucedaphotonics.com

Web: www.lucedaphotonics.com

Luceda Photonics is a leading provider of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design software and services headquartered in Dendermonde/Belgium. Luceda Photonics allows PIC designers to enjoy the same power as electronic IC designers.

Luceda Photonics’ PIC design software, The Luceda Photonics Design Platform, enables PIC designers to design, simulate, and PICs and empowers them to quickly achieve their tape-out, getting their designs right the first time. The company leverages more than 50 years of photonic experience to help their customers create manufacturable designs and supports a wide range of foundry PDKs from around the world.

They are active in various application areas, such as the data & telecom market, lidar for self-driving cars, quantum computing, sensing and biosensing, and more.

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Cipalstraat 3

2440 Geel

Phone: +32 14 58 59 27

Email: contact@magics.tech

Web: www.magics.tech

Magics is a fabless ISO-9001:2015 certified semiconductor company. They have successfully implemented a Radiation-Hardening-by-Design (RHBD) method to create custom ASICs and several ITAR-free, highly reliable and radiation-hardened product lines. They currently offer 4 products series: Motion, Vision, AI and Time.

Additionally, Magics has pipelined new product developments to further support growth and fortify its position as European market leader in high reliability chips.

Their products advance cutting-edge system and payload solutions for emerging space applications like 5G/6G satellite communication, real-time earth observation, space mining, and deep space exploration. In the nuclear market, their chips enable more efficient inspection and remote handling tools and address obsolescence challenges of electronics components faced by leading suppliers in the industry.

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Preenakker 2-4

1785 Merchtem, Belgium

Phone: +32 52 38 19 00

Email: customerservicebe@mcm-sealing.com

Web: www.mcm-sealing.com

WHERE PASSION MEETS INNOVATION

With a relentless dedication to delivering high-quality compounds, precision molding and pristine clean room environment, MCM High Performance Sealing offers specific compounds, O-rings and technical seals, in ultra pure processing for the semiconductor industry.

ISO 7 Clean Room production ensures a controlled environment, minimizing contaminants, and delivering products of the highest quality. With strict cleanliness standards, they guarantee the integrity of sensitive components and materials during the manufacturing process and the ISO6 sanitising and packaging processes.

A full range of materials for semicon applications: evolast® PS1 (Wet chemical) – PS2 (Thermal) – PS3 (Plasma).

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Transportstraat 1,

3980 Tessenderlo, Belgium

Phone: +32 13 67 07 80

Email: info@melexis.com

Web: www.melexis.com

Having a heart for innovation, people and engineering, Melexis designs, develops and delivers innovative micro-electronic solutions. They enable designers to turn ideas into applications that support the best imaginable future. The company’s advanced mixed-signal semiconductors integrate sensing and driving into next-generation products and systems. They improve safety, raise efficiency, support sustainability and enhance comfort.

Melexis is a world leader in automotive sensors. Today, on average, every new car produced contains +18 Melexis chips. Melexis uses this expertise to serve other markets as well: alternative mobility, smart appliances, smart buildings, robotics, energy management and digital health.

Melexis is headquartered in Belgium and employs over 1,900 people in 12 countries. The company is publicly traded on Euronext Brussels (MELE).

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Kasteelpark Arenberg 10

3001 Leuven, Belgium

Phone: +32 16 32 51 75

Email: micas-info@esat.kuleuven.be

Web: www.micas.be

Micas initiates, drives, and realizes breakthroughs in micro- and nanoelectronic systems, for a better and more comfortable life for everyone. Their core activity is research in the field of integrated circuit and sensor design.

The research of micas spans from conceptual blue-sky research, over applied research, up to partner specific industrial research. In each phase of this pipeline, they validate the research with measurements on real hardware. The micas IC-lab contains all the required characterization equipment.

As an academic research group, micas also focuses on training students to become leaders in electrical engineering. Moreover, micas wants to make our society aware of the role and importance of microelectronics.

The final goal of micas is to create a long-lasting impact, both at the academic and at the socio-economical level.

NXP

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Interleuvenlaan 80

3001 Leuven, Belgium

Phone: +32 16 39 08 11

Email: patrick.vandebroek@nxp.com

Web: www.nxp.com

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) enables a smarter, safer and more sustainable world through innovation. As a world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, NXP is pushing boundaries in the automotive, industrial & IoT, mobile, and communication infrastructure markets.

NXP Semiconductors Product Line Personal Health, headquartered in Leuven, develops application specific IC’s and accompanying software for use in “Hearing Aids and Implants”-, “Wireless Personal Audio”- and “Personal Health monitoring” applications.

The main value drivers for their products are battery life time, system level integration, Audio DSP, vital signs & AI processing power, programmability, and communication range.

Next to the Product Line, NXP Semiconductors Leuven hosts the NXP security & audio competence centers.

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Motstraat 30

2800 Mechelen, Belgium

Phone: +32 15 79 39 07

Email: contact.belgium@ovt.com

Web: www.ovt.com

Since being founded in 1995 OMNIVISION has been at the leading-edge of technology, developing and delivering advanced digital imaging, analog, and touch & display solutions for multiple applications across several industries. As a global fabless semiconductor organization, our award-winning innovative technologies have enabled smoother human/machine interfacing solutions within the automotive, medical, security & surveillance, computing, mobile phone, and emerging technology spaces.

Whether it be developing the first mobile handset camera accessory in 2002, introducing the world’s smallest NTS camera in 2006 or launching PureCel CMOS image sensors in 2013, our dedication to providing reliable, innovative imaging and sensing solutions continue to be the primary aim.

In Flanders the R&D teams develop cutting-edge CMOS image sensors (Mechelen) and non-imaging automotive ICs (Leuven).

Contact

Philipssite 5-A, Box 32

3001 Leuven, Belgium

Phone: +32 16 79 00 07

Email: info@pharrowtech.com

Web: www.pharrowtech.com

Pharrowtech’s innovative wireless platforms simplify and accelerate the adoption of millimeter-wave technology.

They have created the first high performance, low-cost carrier grade radio frequency (RF) chip for the Wireless Infrastructure market, delivering the same reliable and robust service as wired alternatives. Their technology enables high speed internet in urban, suburban and rural locations alike, at a fraction of the roll-out cost and deployment time of fiber.

With unmatched performance, their solutions also help consumer electronics manufacturers deliver truly immersive wireless VR and AR experiences for the future of home entertainment; and realize the full potential of high speed Internet of Things (IoT) and smart city technology.

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Brabantlaan 1

5216 TV ‘s-Hertogenbosch

The Netherlands

Phone: +31 6 55 68 69 72

Email: bschellekens@brabant.nl

Web: www.brabant.nl

Noord-Brabant is one of the Netherlands’ 12 provinces. The province functions as an intermediary level of government, in between the Dutch national government and local governments such as towns and cities. One of its tasks is to stimulate the regional economy.

Noord-Brabant is home to many hightech companies such as NXP, ASML and VDL Enabling Technologies Group. It is also where quadruple helix partners create state-of-the-art innovations in places such as the High Tech Campus, Brainport Industries Campus and the Automotive Campus.

In the innovation process, be it innovations by startups or more established companies, the province plays a facilitating role. It does so by lowering market entry thresholds, fostering innovative partnerships between industry and academia and if needed by investing directly in companies or company locations.

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Kerkstraat 108,

9050 Gentbrugge, Belgium

Phone: +32 92 65 71 38

Email: info@sigasi.com

Web: www.pharrowtech.com

Sigasi allows FPGA and ASIC designers to achieve their full potential. Their chips create life-saving devices, power new technologies, and digitize our medical, telecom, automotive, defense, and aerospace worlds in revolutionary ways. And it all starts with the powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Sigasi provides.

Sigasi assists design engineers in writing RTL with a mix of VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog, giving them everything from basic editing (e.g. block selection, syntax highlights) to advanced features like autocomplete, code navigation, and linting. Most importantly, Sigasi gives hardware designers real-time feedback.

Moreover, Sigasi integrates with existing workflows. This includes CI/CD checking, allowing teams to safeguard entire code repositories, which is particularly valuable for ASIC design and optimizing hand-off to verification teams.

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Sint-Godelievestraat 32

9880 Aalter, Belgium

Phone: +32 92 16 83 33

Email: bd@sofics.com

Web: www.sofics.com

Sofics is a foundry independent semiconductor IP provider that has supported 100+ companies worldwide with specialty on-chip ESD protection and unique I/O circuits.

Fabless companies using Sofics IP can enable higher performance, higher robustness and can reduce design time and cost. The re-usable designs are integrated into more than 4500 IC designs. The technology is silicon proven on more than 50 different processes from leading foundries like TSMC, Samsung Foundry, GlobalFoundries and several others.

Fabless designers replace foundry I/O cells with a compatible cell from Sofics to

Contact

Corda Campus

Kempische Steenweg 293

3500 Hasselt, Belgium

Phone: +32 11 56 66 20

Email: info.epigan@soitec.com

Web: www.soitec.com

Soitec’s GaN Epitaxy product family consists of state-of-the-art (In,Al)N/GaN and(Al,Ga)N/GaN hetero epitaxial layer structures deposited on up to 200mm (111) Si substrate or 150mm SiC substrate.

  • For RF infrastructure and handset, Soitec offers optimised layer structures addressing sub-6 and mmW 5G bands with Fe-free buffer to support high breakdown voltage, low trapping effects and very low RF losses up to 100GHz and a consistently low wafer bow.

  • For Power switching applications, Soitec offers d-mode HEMT structures or e-mode HEMT structures with custom barriers and cap designs, suitable for 200V and 650V power switching systems.

  • With over 20 years of track records leveraging Soitec smart-cutTM technology, Soitec’s GaN product roadmap will continue to unlock innovations that will drive GaN based electronic systems to the next level of performance.

Contact

Stationsstraat 55

2800 Mechelen, Belgium

Phone: +32 15 20 16 56

Email: info@spectricity.com

Web: www.spectricity.com

Spectricity develops and manufactures spectral imaging solutions targeting mobile, consumer and industrial devices. These imaging solutions, consisting of unique spectral image sensors and innovative computer vision algorithms, sense beyond what’s visible.

Spectricity’s technology and the products powered by it are the fruit of more than 15 years of research and development.

Applications include accurate color measurement, advanced automatic white balancing, remote personalised cosmetics, skin health, plant health, anti-counterfeit, food analysis and industrial inspection.

With world’s first all-CMOS, fully-integrated, truly-miniaturised and mass manufacturable multispectral image sensors, Spectricity makes spectral imaging available to anyone, anywhere.

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Breughellaan 27

9840 De Pinte, Belgium

Phone: +32 472 72 68 14

Email: info@spexicam.com

Web: www.spexicam.com

SpeXICAM is a young spin-off company from Ghent University leveraging over six years of groundbreaking research and international collaborations. With a strong focus on hyperspectral X-ray imaging, they offer cutting-edge solutions encompassing software, hardware, bespoke engineering, and expert know-how.

SpeXICAM aims to provide the missing link between new generations of X-ray imaging sensors, and novel application fields wishing to make use of them. To this end they apply their expertise along the entire X-ray imaging pipeline, from sensor characterisation, calibration and read-out, to end-user features enabling deep customisation and integration, while keeping ease of use and reliability in mind at all times.

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Brugstraat 30

9770 Kruisem, Belgium

Phone: +32 495 27 65 65

Email: info@sydelity.com

Web: www.sydelity.com

Sydelity is a service company helping its customers to achieve system-level design tasks with higher efficiency. Sydelity specializes in the data-driven generation of abstract models for semiconductor devices, analogue circuits, mixed-signal chips and SoC’s, but also covers components used in multi-physics simulation.

Sydelity supports a broad range of Hardware Description Languages, providing portability across multiple domain specific simulators: VerilogA(MS), VHDL-AMS, Modelica, VHDL, SystemVerilog, C++. Sydelity’s conservative models bridge the gap between analogue and digital by supporting both the continuous-time (SPICE-like) and the event-driven (digital simulators) model of computation.

Sydelity also provides advice on setting up efficient design and simulation flows to address challenges in the domain of ESD, EMC, thermal management, reliability and functional safety.

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