Services
Supply Chain Management
From the product idea to the final ASIC
Overall there are three phases in ASIC projects – the development phase, the industrialisation phase and the production phase.
Our goal is to attend you competently in each phase of your ASIC project and to guarantee always only one contact person.
Manufacturing
Build
& Analysis
We work with you and our design partners and FABs to turn your idea into a prototype. Extensive functional, wafer and component testing in our in-house laboratories ensures the quality and reliability of your ASIC.
In this phase, we work with you to design and create a prototype of your idea. Thereby, we collaborate with professional design houses and semiconductor manufacturers, short FABs, which translate your idea to integrated circuits and produces a first quantity of your specific chip, that will be developed into the first prototypes. Afterwards, various functional-, wafer- and component tests through to failure and material analysis methods play an important role. Only in this way your chip finally has the quality you need for your product. These tests are carried out in our in-house laboratories. We offer you the entire portfolio of climatic, mechanical, electrical and optoelectronic tests. The hardware and software will be developed by our experienced engineers in advance.
We optimize the test environment and prepare all processes for serial production.
From packaging and assembly to qualifications and validations – we ensure an approved process flow and qualified components.
In the industrialisation phase we optimise the test environment in a permanent exchange of information with you, to keep the costs as low as possible. If the prototypes have been tested sufficiently, the first pilot series follows. Thereby, a so-called assembly house packages your chips. For this purpose, we use our contacts to professional assembly houses. If required, we can carry out various qualifications and environmental tests and issue certificates and independent expert reports, for example for the in the automotive sector established qualification standards AEC Q 100 and AEC Q 101 or the industry standard JESD47. At the end of the industrialisation phase we have proved the series maturity for all wafer tests, final tests and end-of-line tests. Qualified components are therefore available for this phase.
Our services in the field of packaging and assembly comprise:
- Selection and qualification of package and assembly suppliers
- Technical support in package selection according to customer requirements
- Broad range of standard and custom package solutions (QFN, QFP, BGA, CSP, WLCSP, ceramic packages, etc.)
- Management of prototype, sample, and production builds
- Coordination of qualification activities and PPAP submissions
- Technical interface between customers, design houses, foundries, and assembly houses
We produce and deliver your qualified ASICs in high volumes.
Our team ensures quality, reliability and full support – from production to RMA.
The production phase is about to produce and deliver the chips which have formerly been produced in small series and qualified, as series parts. We also take care of all coordination tasks including the worldwide logistics. We are happy to be your point of contact in the event of unexpected failures or customer returns (RMA). We can check your production facilities for electrostatic discharge (ESD) risks and make suggestions for optimization.
in-house failure analysis
anywhere in the world
With us as general partner you have the advantage that you get competent support in each of the three phases of an ASIC project. Additionally, we provide a broad project management: we support you for example with extensive automotive projects like the complex production approval process PPAP or the production quality forecast APQP. We are able to react flexibly to your requirements and also to project changes. Quality assurance is our ultimate ambition. Our in-house failure analysis offers the best conditions to react competently and quickly to noticeable problems. Furthermore, we take care of the entire logistics – worldwide.
ASIC
We handle the Logistics, Project Management and Quality Assurance for:
- Supply chain logistics
- Project management & production control
- Wafer production
- Wafer probing
- Package assembly
- Final test
- End-of-line handling
- Yield monitoring
- System level analysis
- Sophisticated failure analysis
- Customer return management
- Long-term storage
- Definition of qualification flow
- Qualification
- Electrical tests, interim tests
- Characterisation
- Life time / reliability calculations
- Failure analysis
- Test program optimisation
- Test time reduction
- Yield optimisation
- Other cost reduction
- Product release
- Design / Design support
- Product engineering
- Design for test
- Test engineering
- Debug
- Prototype wafer production
- Wafer probing
- Failure analysis, chip repair
- Prototype package assembly
- Characterisation
- Final test
- Product release
Cosmic as reliable partner with industry expertise
With our Supply Chain Management, we offer straightforward processes and turnkey solutions backed by many years of industry expertise. We leverage our know-how, especially in the industrial, automotive, healthcare, high-reliability (Hi-Rel), and aerospace sectors, to provide you with the best possible support.
Are you looking for a competent partner for your ASIC project? If so, you are in the right place. It is up to you to decide whether you want the complete package or only partial services.