DALSA Semiconductor

Wafer Fabrication Capability Overview

DALSA's fabrication strengths include integration of sense and actuation circuitry alongside MEMS structures, flexible wafer-scale packaging, and a range of materials, equipment, and process flows that enable the most advanced MEMS and image sensor performance. We own dozens of patents in fabrication technology. Many of our process technologies are usually considered unconventional or even contradictory in mainstream integrated circuit production, but DALSA Semiconductor's foundry services together provide designers and customers with a rare ability to optimize architecture, performance, and reliability to meet the needs of high-volume, mission-critical microsystems in photonics, telecom, biomedical, automotive, and industrial applications.

HV ASICs / HV CMOS

DALSA offers industry-leading manufacturing capability and design support for high voltage CMOS ICs such as drivers for inkjet print heads, flat panel displays, LEDs and LCDs, micromirrors, and microfluidics. In fact, our custom HV design service can build complete application-specific solutions for you from the ground up with none of the compromises of off-the-shelf components.
MEMS integration with HV CMOS and CMOS

Many MEMS applications require high voltage actuation with low voltage control circuitry. DALSA Semiconductor can provide this capability as a stand-alone ASIC, a MEMs + ASIC assembly using wafer-level packaging, or as a fully integrated process combining both on the same wafer.

CCD, Analog/Mixed Signal and Legacy CMOS Processes

In addition to fabricating high performance CCD image sensors for DALSA’s own industrial and professional imaging divisions, DALSA Semiconductor is one of the few open CCD foundries in the world. Some of DALSA’s most public successes come from our CCDs.

NASA used “perfect”, zero-defect CCDs from our foundry on the Mars Rovers to capture the highest resolution images ever taken from another planet. The US Naval Observatory uses a wafer-scale monolithic 111 megapixel CCD from our foundry for astronomy, and in 2008 we delivered gigantic devices with even higher resolution for aerial photogrammetry. DALSA CCDs captured stunning 180 fps HD images at the Beijing Olympics, and advanced DALSA CCDs inspect almost every flat panel screen you see around you.

Our vast process repertoire also includes some very specialized and very important analog and mixed signal designs including circuits for pacemakers.

Applications such as these, while only small parts of our business, serve to illustrate not only DALSA’s adaptability and extensive breadth of technical capability but also our ability to reliably meet the very highest standards in the most mission-critical applications. With over 30 process transfers corresponding to over 140 products since 1997, our expertise in transferring and developing customized processes is unmatched in the industry. Put our technical and logistical sophistication to work for you.



 

In 2006 DALSA fabricated the world's highest-resolution monolithic image sensor (111 megapixels)