Elmos Semiconductor SE is a German manufacturer of

semiconductor A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical resistivity and conductivity, electrical conductivity value falling between that of a electrical conductor, conductor, such as copper, and an insulator (electricity), insulator, such as glas ...

products headquartered in

Dortmund Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the la ...

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

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. Elmos supplies automotive

application-specific integrated circuit An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC ) is an integrated circuit (IC) chip customized for a particular use, rather than intended for general-purpose use, such as a chip designed to run in a digital voice recorder or a high-efficie ...

s (ASICs).

Processes

Elmos has four high voltage CMOS processes available. *L12/T12 1.2 um CMOS/SOI process. Voltage capability to 120 V/+/-120 V *L08 0.8 um CMOS process. Voltage capability to 120 V *L05 0.5 um CMOS process. Voltage capability to 120 V *L035/T035 0.35 um CMOS/SOI process. Voltage capability to 120 V/+/-120 V

History

*1984 - Founded in Dortmund, Germany *1985 - 32 employees, 0.4 M DM turnover, Installation of 4" Wafer Fab in Dortmund *1994 - DIN ISO 9001 certificate *1998 - 460 employees, 140 M DM turnover. Complete supply from new 6" line *1999 - IPO to new market, Frankfurt *2001 - 630 employees, 107 million Euro turnover Acquisition of Eurasem (Packaging, NL) and SMI (MEMS, USA) *2002 - TS16949 *2005 - Opened 8" wafer fab in Duisburg as second production line *2020 - Conversion of legal form into a

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*2022 - media reports about possible Chinese takeover which the German government eventually vetoed

Details

*Yearly production and supply of more than 100 million ICs *Currently >1.5 Billion ELMOS ICs "in the field" *More than 1,100 employees at 13 locations, turnover about 160.7 Million. ASSPs, MEMS and Microsystems *Target 2010: Yearly production of approx. 200 M ICs with circa 250 M Euro turnover

Silicon Microstructures

Silicon Microstructures, Inc.(SMI) was founded in 1991 as a commercial source of high-performance silicon

pressure sensor A pressure sensor is a device for pressure measurement of gases or liquids. Pressure is an expression of the force required to stop a fluid from expanding, and is usually stated in terms of force per unit area. A pressure sensor usually act ...

s, including

Microelectromechanical systems Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), also written as micro-electro-mechanical systems (or microelectronic and microelectromechanical systems) and the related micromechatronics and microsystems constitute the technology of microscopic devices, ...

sensors, and

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. Its first product was a silicon sensor for very low-pressure usage. SMI was acquired in March 2001 from

OSI Systems OSI Systems, Inc. is an American company based in California that develops and markets security and inspection systems such as airport security X-ray machines and metal detectors, medical monitoring and anesthesia systems, and optoelectronic dev ...

. SMI began production on higher performance, system level sensors and microstructures, wireless, RF and bus addressable microstructures. In August 2002, SMI acquired the IC Sensors' wafer fabrication operations and wafer R&D group and relocated to

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. The following year, Silicon Microstructures undertook a significant and complete wafer fabrication upgrade to expand the facility for full 6" wafer handling. This facility processed primarily 6 inch wafers and has advanced technical capabilities including deep reactive ion etching ( DRIE) and plasma enhanced

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References

External links

Elmos Semiconductor websiteSilicon Microstructures website
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