Non Imaging Sensor Technology
Expand Your Sensing Capabilities Beyond Imaging, Lead the World of Sensors
Our expanding connected IoT world is built around sensing our surroundings, analyzing data, and reacting. Tower Semiconductor offers a broad range of sensor fabrication technologies and IPs to help customers meet this growing demand for the most challenging applications.
Tower Semiconductor recognizes that almost every modern electronic device has sensors in it. From the connected IoT world to smart autonomous automobiles, we grow more and more dependent on smart sensors (to sense the surroundings and react). The automotive industry requires more and more sensors for car monitoring in order to reach higher reliability, broader safety and security on the way to autonomous vehicles.
Tower Semiconductor offers technological platforms for fabricating diverse sensing devices, including unique ionizing radiation, UV and magnetic field sensors. With our proven and flexible capabilities, we will help to enable and/or expand your sensors offering to the market and achieve competitive advantages. One of the benefits is that our platforms are based on standard CMOS processes, allowing sensing functionality to be embedded directly into a SoC architecture. Tower Semiconductor sensor platforms allow ultra-low power design and fabrication of devices for the environment while maintaining outstanding sensitivity and reliability.
Tower Semiconductor offers complimentary design IPs to complete your sensors offering, such as Sigma-Delta ADC, Trans-Impedance Amplifier (TIA), DAC, embedded NVM, and standard serial I/F. In addition, we provide design support to help customize the sensors for diverse applications and requirements. Our team is available to help you enter the field, develop/expand your sensors offering and accelerate time-to-market.
Beyond image sensors, there is an ever-increasing need for machines to sense the world around them to promote a safer and improved environment and life.
Tower offers outstanding sensor technologies to address modern-day growing concerns with dedicated solutions oriented towards pollution assessment, forest preservation, healthcare and prevention, cleaning, and decontamination. Beyond the overwhelming landscape of IoT, autonomous / self-driving cars, or industrial robots, Tower Semiconductor has developed the most comprehensive range of sensing technologies available utilizing its state-of-the-art CMOS technology platforms.
Tower Semiconductor offers technological platforms for fabricating diverse sensing devices, including:
With our proven and flexible capabilities, we will help to enable and/or expand your sensors offering to the market and achieve competitive edge.
Our platforms are based on standard CMOS processes, allowing sensing functionality to be embedded directly into a SoC architecture. In addition, your sensors will also benefit from the quality and manufacturability track record of a cutting-edge CMOS foundry.
Tower Semiconductor sensor platforms allow ultra-low power, battery-less design and fabrication of devices for the environment while maintaining outstanding sensitivity and reliability.
Tower Semiconductor puts a very strong emphasis on customer support through the entire product life cycle, from early design stage to mass production. Beyond the sensor technology itself, Tower will also support your design with IP access to complete your sensors offering, such as Sigma-Delta ADC, Trans-Impedance Amplifier (TIA), DAC, embedded NVM, and standard serial I/F.
In addition, we provide design support to help customize the sensors for diverse applications and requirements. Our team is available to help you enter the field, develop/expand your sensors offering and accelerate time-to-market.
Non-Imaging Sensor
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Unique Platforms for Sensor Fabrication
Floating Gate Sensor Platform
- Based on Tower Semiconductor patented single Poly NVM
- Zero masks added to the core CMOS flow
- Ultra-low power operation
- Battery-less operation in the registration mode
- Particulate matter detection capability down to PM 2.5
- PDK available
- Suitable for time-temperature indicators, radiation, and Radon (Rn) sensors
Low Power UV Sensor Platform
- UVC/UVB sensors integrated into production SOI platform, UVA/B/C
- Floating Gate based UVC sensor with zero static power consumption
- Ideal for remote reading, RFID UV tags, etc.
- Eye-safe 220-225nm sensor variant
- Particularly suitable to UVC disinfection applications:
- Medical environment sterilization
- Flow-based air sterilization (air conditioning, filtering)
- Consumer and agriculture applications for food conservation.
Sensors on Membranes and Electrically Formed Nanowires (EFN)
Several technologies for membrane and devices on the membrane fabrication:
- “Onion” etch technology
- Record high temperature sensitivity (> 45mV/K) and low power
- Back and front side dry etch to form membranes
- Heaters integrated with the membranes
- Verified in fabrication of nanowire sensors and scaled-down transistors
- Embedded into production RF SOI CMOS process flow
- Suitable for gas, temperature sensors
Sensor Signal Processing Chain and Data Analysis
- Embedded Non-Volatile Memory (Y-Flash), 128 bit -16 kbit memory (no additional masks to CMOS), including memristors for neuromorphic chips (artificial intelligence data processing)
- High precision, low power consumption Sigma-Delta ADC -(14 -22 bits) and DAC -(10 – 14 bits)
- TIA (Trans-impedance Amplifier) with wide input current range, low noise and low offset
- Serial I/F – I2C, SPI
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