As foundries consolidate, the company is providing turnkey, outsourced semiconductor assembly and test services to deliver fully qualified products to aerospace and defense customers.
PHOENIX—Consolidation of semiconductor foundries is leaving customers with last-time buys or limited access to support their application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). Spirit Electronics, a distributor and provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and testing (OSAT), wants them to know that it can help them avoid ASIC program disruption and loss.
Spirit offers support for application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) with full screen and qualification for military and space applications, the company said in a release.
“Spirit Electronics is here to offer support for redesign if needed (meaning customers without a GDS2 or RTL files from their current provider),” said Spirit Electronics CEO Marti McCurdy, in the release. “We can port this over to a Texas Instruments foundry on very similar technology nodes and processes.”
Spirit is offering full-turnkey, vertically integrated services for finished goods for space or military qualified parts. These services include design (analog, digital, mixed signal, and RF); foundry services at Texas Instruments (TI) or other wafer foundries by customer request; package assembly; and electrical test program development. They are also reported to include screening, qualification, radiation testing, device physical analysis (DPA), and delivery of fully qualified drop-in replacements for current ASICs.
Spirit Electronics offers foundry services supporting U.S.-based manufacturing for analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits. Spirit’s foundry access includes 45- to 130-nm technology nodes in 300 mm wafer fabs. With corporate consolidation and long-lead-time pressures demanding greater capacity from existing fabs, Spirit’s foundry services open an accessible supply chain channel for ASIC manufacturing, the company said in the release.
Spirit recently added semiconductor veteran Naveed Sherwani, Ph.D., to its engineering team in support of its ASIC product enablement programs. The company said in the release that it is committed to providing “U.S.-sourced, Made-in-the-USA ASICs that support legacy replacement and advanced solutions.”
Spirit Electronics, an end-to-end supply chain services company headquartered in Phoenix, is a veteran-owned, woman-owned small business (VOWOSB) with HUBZone certification. The company offers MIL-STD-883 testing, circuit card assembly, device analysis, ASIC programs, and authorized distribution of high-reliability electronic components.