ICsense manages the mass production and supply of its custom ASICs across all volume levels—either in-house or through trusted partners and TDK. This flexible approach ensures that customers benefit from cost-effective production, short lead times, and supply chain resilience. Our in-house production flow is fully aligned with that of our external partners, enabling second-source compatibility and secure volume ramp-up without disruption.
ICsense takes full ownership of the production process, handling every technical and administrative detail—from supplier management and logistics to insurance, customs, and VAT—so customers can focus entirely on their core business.
Our production model is designed to scale seamlessly, supporting low to medium volumes in-house or with European OSAT partners (from a few 10 thousand up to several million units) and transitioning to high-volume manufacturing with IDMs or TDK for annual volumes of several tens of millions of units. Each of these models is currently in use and has repeatedly proven its effectiveness across diverse scenarios.
Throughout the entire production lifecycle, our experienced product engineering team oversees and monitors operations—regardless of the production model—using dedicated statistical analysis tools to ensure consistent quality, yield optimization, and traceability.
Working in close collaboration with our design team, suppliers, and customers, our product engineering team drives continuous improvement in yield, quality, and manufacturing efficiency. Through detailed root cause and failure analyses, they proactively identify opportunities for cost reduction, process optimization, and product enhancements.
During production, the team serves as the central interface between the customer and our supply chain, providing responsive support for technical inquiries, qualification processes, failure analysis, 8D reporting, reliability assessments, and testability reviews. When necessary, they issue Process Change Notifications (PCNs) with detailed impact analysis to ensure full transparency and traceability.
Before entering volume production, every ASIC developed by ICsense undergoes a rigorous industrialization process to meet the highest standards of reliability, robustness, and manufacturability. This phase includes extensive reliability testing and statistical analysis, tailored to the specific application, market, and mission profile of the chip.
Depending on the end-use requirements, testing typically includes ESD (Electrostatic Discharge), Latch-Up (LU), Temperature Cycling (TC), Accelerated Lifetime Testing such as HAST (Highly Accelerated Stress Test) and ELFR (Early Life Failure Rate) in accordance with industry standards such as AEC-Q100 for automotive-grade devices or other relevant specifications for medical, industrial, or consumer applications.
In addition to reliability testing, ICsense performs detailed characterization on both typical and corner (skewed) wafers to validate manufacturing robustness and ensure consistent performance across process variations.
The industrialization phase is a critical step in ICsense’s commitment to delivering high-quality, zero-defect ASICs that are ready for scalable, long-term production.
“As a fabless designer and producer of high memory passive RFID tags, Tego partners with skilled, innovative IC design firms that achieve excellence in their ASIC designs and at the system level. With ICsense, we found such a partner for the development of our RF front-end. Their high quality of service, innovation, IC knowledge and dedication has been instrumental to our success to date. We look forward to continued success with ICsense as a key technology partner for the foreseeable future.”
”ICsense’s expertise in making high-voltage circuits with low-voltage transistors led to first silicon success for this complex and innovative design. We particularly appreciate our close cooperation with ICsense’s engineers and their proactive and flexible attitude.”
”ICsense is one of our major outsource partners to develop large IP blocks to our requirements. We especially value them for their strong technical engagement, robust management, track record of on-time delivery, high-integrity people and their relax company culture.”
“Based on the excellent project track record of ICsense, ON has selected ICsense as one of its preferred IC design partners for analog, mixed-signal and high-voltage. In the numerous projects with different BUs, ICsense has proven to deliver high-quality and reliable IC designs compliant with our stringent demands.”
”ICsense developed the analog front-end for our new industrial transceiver in TSMC 40nm. ICsense is a valuable partner for Renesas and we highly appreciated the flexibility, expertise and innovativeness of ICsense.”
“The flexible attitude of the ICsense design team combined with their advanced analog IC design expertise, specifically for high voltages, significantly impacted the feasibility and the successful integration of our Cochlear implant IC. “
“ICsense developed this first-of-a-kind and innovative ASIC for stimulation and measurement in our 40-electrode deep brain implant. Next to the high technical and quality standards that ICsense employs, we strongly appreciate their open, honest and flexible way of working, which was key to the success of this development.”
