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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
- CMOS image sensors
- Spectral, dTOF sensors
- ALS, Proximity sensors
- LED, lasers
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.
Contact
Eisenbahnstr. 2,
01097 Dresden, Germany
Phone: +49 35 18 99 67 55
Email: info@aspect-sys.com
Web: www.aspect-sys.com
- Wafer- and final test service
- Custom test- and automation equipment
- Supply chain management
- Custom development
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).
Contact
Westerring 15
9700 Oudenaarde, Belgium
Phone: +32 55 33 22 11
Email: kapple.wang@belgan.com
Web: www.belgan.com
- Open GaN foundry
- Largest semiconductor company in Flanders
- BelGaN is the initiator of GaN Valley™
- GaN the perfect semiconductor for processing electrical energy
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).
Contact
Hendrik Consciencestraat, 1b
2800 Mechelen, Belgium
Phone: +32 15 71 05 03
Email: info@caeleste.be
Web: www.caeleste.be
- Custom-designed CMOS image sensors
- Medical & life science imagers
- Scientific & space applications
- Industrial & machine vision
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.
Contact
Schaliënhoevedreef 20/I
2800 Mechelen, Belgium
Phone: +32 15 79 55 11
Email: cbeinfo@cochlear.com
Web: www.cochlear.be
- Market leader in hearing implants
- Bone conduction devices
- Cochlear implants
- Hearing implant research
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.
Contact
Diestsevest 32 box 2b
3000 Leuven, Belgium
Phone: +32 16 39 56 11
Email: info@easics.com
Web: www.easics.com
- ASIC / SoC design & supply services
- Embedded software
- FPGA / SoC design services
- nearbAI cores for ultra-low power near-sensor AI
easics is market leader in ASIC / SoC design & supply services, and FPGA / SoC designs. easics designs advanced full ASICs and digital ASIC macros, as well as FPGA / SoC-based systems.
The company specializes in image / sensor processing & interfacing, DSP, wireless, ultra-low power, high-speed interfacing, microprocessor integration / embedded software, and AI.
easics also develops and licenses semiconductor IP products: nearbAI for ultra-low power near-sensor AI, and TCP/IP cores for reliable low-latency communication.
End-markets include automotive, healthcare, mobile, consumer, IoT, industrial, measurement equipment and space.
easics is a rock-solid company, in business for 30+ years and was founded in 1991. It is an independent company, ISO 9001:2015 certified, and headquartered in Leuven – Belgium.
Contact
Copernicuslaan 60, bus 8
2018 Antwerpen, Belgium
Phone: +32 33 03 44 42
Email: info@gpixel.com
Web: www.gpixel.com
- Advanced CMOS image sensors
- Production supply: one stop shop solution
- Off-the-shelf products and custom ASIC design
- Industrial, scientific & prosumer imaging
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.
Contact
Gaston Geenslaan 10
3001 Heverlee, Belgium
Phone: +32 16 31 68 00
Email: infoberc@huawei.com
Web: www.huawei.com/eu
- Cutting edge RF IC design team
- Advanced semiconductor technologies expertise
- State-of-the-art photonics research and design team
- Access to global tech leader
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.
Contact
Gaston Geenslaan 14
3001 Leuven, Belgium
Phone: +32 16 58 97 00
Email: info@icsense.com
Web: www.icsense.com
- Largest European IC design team
- Custom IC development
- Analog, mixed-signal and high-voltage
- Exclusive ASIC supply
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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- World-leading R&D hub
- World’s largest 300mm cleanroom for research
- Enabling nano- and digital technology innovation
- ASIC development services via imec.IC-link
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.
Contact
Mechelsesteenweg 120
2860 Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium
Phone: +32 496 06 36 72
Email: contact@industrialise.be
Web: www.industrialise.be
- Innovating your industrialization activities
- DFT, DFM, DFA integration in customer designs
- HW, RTL, SW and embedded system design services
- Production test development
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
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- Photonic integrated circuit design software
- Circuit and component layout & simulation
- Process Design Kits (PDKs) enablement
- Tape-out preparation
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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- European fabless semiconductor company
- Rad-hard-by-design method enables ITAR-free ASICs
- Portfolio of reliable and radiation-hardened chips
- Focus on space, nuclear, aerospace, defence
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.
Contact
Transportstraat 1,
3980 Tessenderlo, Belgium
Phone: +32 13 67 07 80
Email: info@melexis.com
Web: www.melexis.com
- Automotive sensor ICs
- Non-automotive sensor ICs
- Automotive driver ICs
- Non-automotive driver ICs
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).
Contact
Interleuvenlaan 80
3001 Leuven, Belgium
Phone: +32 16 39 08 11
Email: patrick.vandebroek@nxp.com
Web: www.nxp.com
- ULP audio processing & wireless streaming
- Medical imaging
- Medical devices for use in personal health care
- Security Competence Centers
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.
Contact
Motstraat 30
2800 Mechelen, Belgium
Phone: +32 15 79 39 07
Email: contact.belgium@ovt.com
Web: www.ovt.com
- Global fabless semiconductor organization
- R&D design centers in Mechelen and Leuven
- Advanced digital imaging and analog solutions
- Automotive Industry
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
- High-speed wireless, everywhere
- DC to millimeter-wave CMOS IC & antenna design
- Wireless system solution provider
- Infrastructure and consumer IC products
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.
Contact
Brabantlaan 1
5216 TV ‘s-Hertogenbosch
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 6 52 79 45 32
Email: tvstappen@brabant.nl
- Top semicon equipment and photonics region
- Home to international champions like NXP & ASML
- Growth in chip design, packaging and testing
- European Innovation Scoreboard Innovation Leader
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.
Contact
Kerkstraat 108,
9050 Gentbrugge, Belgium
Phone: +32 92 65 71 38
Email: info@sigasi.com
Web: www.pharrowtech.com
- Trusted IDE for mixed-language digital chip design
- Standards-based compliance checking
- Optimized workflow through CI/CD automation
- Productivity-boosting semantic assistance
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.
Contact
Sint-Godelievestraat 32
9880 Aalter, Belgium
Phone: +32 92 16 83 33
Email: bd@sofics.com
Web: www.sofics.com
- IP proven on 50+ processes and 10+ foundries
- Die-to-die I/O interfaces for chiplet integration
- Unique I/O circuits and specialty ESD protection
- LIN transceiver IP for automotive ASIC designs
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
- Have more design flexibility for special interfaces
- Reduce parasitic capacitance by 30% or more
- Enable higher voltage tolerance
- Meet any ESD robustness level
- Reduce the total ESD area
- Reduce leakage by 100x
Contact
Corda Campus
Kempische Steenweg 293
3500 Hasselt, Belgium
Phone: +32 11 56 66 20
Email: info.epigan@soitec.com
Web: www.soitec.com
- GaN epitaxy solutions for foundries and IDMs
- Power: e-mode and d-mode 200V & 650V lateral GaN/Si
- RF: HEMT heterostructures for sub-6 GHz & mm-wave
- GaN/Si (150mm and 200mm), GaN/SiC (up to 150mm)
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
- Spectral imagers & camera modules for mobile devices
- Plug-and-play development kits
- Computer vision algorithms for multispectral imaging
- Truly-miniaturised and mass-manufacturable
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.
Contact
Brugstraat 30
9770 Kruisem, Belgium
Phone: +32 495 27 65 65
Email: info@sydelity.com
Web: www.sydelity.com
- Wielding the power of abstraction in analogue
- Also applied in ESD, EMC, reliability & FuSA
- Data-driven and portable behavioural models
- Design-flow engineering & EDA consulting
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.
