Available IP Blocks

ASIC Design Building Blocks (IP)
1. Introduction
epc has developed many building blocks on the OHC15L CMOS PhotonicsTM Technology. These building blocks
are available also for customer specific design. The following list shall give an overview. Please ask for more details if needed.
2. Optical Devices
Device Type
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Photo diode
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PIN photo diode
High QE in NIR (>95% @700nm, >90% @850 nm, >60% @ 950nm, >30% @ 1µm)
Size 40 x 40 µm,
Rise/fall time approx. 10ns
Can be arranged in arrays according to the requirements
Other sizes are available upon request
PIN photo diode
High QE in NIR (>95% @700nm, >90% @850 nm, >60% @ 950nm, >30% @ 1µm)
Many pixel sizes available between 7.5 x 7.5µm and several hundred µm each side
Full-well capacity from several 10ke- to several MeRise/fall time approx. 10ns
Various imager sizes from 32 x 32 to Mpixel resolution
Pixel size 20 x 20µm or 40 x 40µm
Various imager sizes from 8x8 to 32x240 pixel
Integrated automatic background light suppression (ABS)
Allows to readout distance, amplitude, ambient light level
3. Non-Optical CCD Devices
Device Type
Comment
CCD
• Various sizes
• To be used as frame store buffers, signal processing in the charge domain, etc.
4. Analog Blocks
Device Type
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Amplifiers
Comparators
Bandgap reference
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Voltage regulators
© by ESPROS Photonics AG
Various types like Op Amp, LNA, TIA, OTA, Video, Buffer
Various types
General purpose
Low temperature drift
+12V
+10V
+5V
+3.3V
+2.5V
+1.8V
-3V
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ASIC Design Building Blocks (IP)
Device Type
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Charge pumps
Current sources
Oscillators
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Temperature sensor
ADC
DAC
LED driver
Up and down from -4V to 12V
Various types
Various frequencies from 4 to several hundred MHz
Crystal-less
With external crystal
With external ceramic resonator
For accurate phase-shift measurement
from -40 to +85°C
Accuracy approx. 0.5°C
Resolution 10 to 14Bit
12 Bit, 70ksps, very low power, very small size (40 x 80µm)
ΔΣ, 21 Bit, niput frequency 20MHz, output 40sps, 20MHz bandpass
Various types
up to 180mA @ 20MHz
Current controllable
Slew rate controllable
5. Digital Blocks
Device Type
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PLL
I2C interface
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SPI interface
1-wire interface
2-wire interface
Safety loop
Camera interface
EEPROM
Micro Controller
ISM band interfaces
Various other digital
blocks
© by ESPROS Photonics AG
Various types for various frequencies
Full implementation
Clock up to 1MHz
Full implementation
Clock up to 10MHz
Microwire implementation
up to 2MBaud
safety rated up to SIL3 (not approved yet)
latency time >30µs
2-wire safety loop interface
up to 110kBaud, up to 63 devices in the loop
SIL3 rated (formal approval planed in 2013)
12 Bit parallel
40MHz
Hsync and Vsync
controlled by needs I2C interface
1024 Bit including power supply generation for operation and programming
Other sizes upon request
planned, please ask
planned, please ask
please ask
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