StarIC provides full‑stack analog and mixed‑signal design services, delivering custom ASICs, platform solutions, and system‑level designs for applications such as silicon photonics, high‑speed data links, sensors, and AI accelerators. Their offering includes a library of silicon‑proven IP blocks with a bundled licensing model, enabling semiconductor and fabless companies to accelerate time‑to‑market while reducing engineering risk and NRE costs.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Designing high-performance analog and mixed-signal circuits for emerging applications such as silicon photonics, high‑speed data links, sensors, and AI accelerators often requires custom ASICs or proven IP blocks that are not available off‑the‑shelf, leading to long development cycles, high engineering risk, and costly redesigns.
Solution
StarIC offers a full‑stack analog/mixed‑signal design service that creates custom ASICs, platform solutions, and system‑level designs tailored to specific application domains. Leveraging deep expertise across multiple technology nodes and foundries, the company delivers silicon‑proven IP libraries—including high‑speed drivers, transimpedance amplifiers, and sensor front‑ends—for the GlobalFoundries Fotonix™ silicon‑photonic platform. Clients can license these IP blocks individually or through a bundled discount model, accelerating time‑to‑market while reducing NRE costs. For projects that require end‑to‑end engineering, StarIC provides prototype‑to‑production system design, complete with board layout, verification, and documentation. The result is a reliable, performance‑optimized solution that integrates electronic and photonic functions on a single chip.
Target Audience
Primary customers are semiconductor companies, fabless designers, and technology firms developing silicon‑photonic, high‑speed data‑center, AI, IoT, and sensor products that require custom analog/mixed‑signal solutions.
Features
- Custom mixed‑signal ASIC design across wireline, optical, photonics, sensor, telecom, and machine‑learning hardware domains
- Proven silicon IP library with .gds, .lib, .lef files, extensive documentation, and integration support
- Bundle‑discount licensing model enabling rapid incorporation of multiple IP blocks into new designs
- Expertise in GlobalFoundries Fotonix™ 45SPCLO process, delivering high‑speed MRM drivers and TIAs for >100 GS/s data rates
- Full system‑level design services from prototype boards to production‑ready solutions, including partner network for manufacturing
- Cross‑node portability of IP blocks, allowing migration to different process technologies as needed