Silego Technology Inc. was an independent
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical areas San Mateo Count ...
–based
fabless
Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing their fabrication (or ''fab'') to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry. These foundries are typically, but not exclu ...
semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass. Its resistivity falls as its temperature rises; metals behave in the opposite way. ...
company until it was acquired by
Dialog Semiconductor
Dialog Semiconductor PLC is an American founded UK-Domiciled manufacturer of semiconductor-based system solutions. The company is headquartered in the United Kingdom in Reading, with a global sales, R&D and marketing organization. Dialog create ...
on 1 November 2017.
Its products and services were created to design and sell highly configurable power, logic, and timing mixed signal IC products described as CMICs (
configurable mixed-signal IC Configurable Mixed-signal IC (abbreviated as CMIC) is a category of ICs comprising a matrix of analog and digital blocks which are configurable through programmable (OTP) non-volatile memory. The technology, in combination with its design software a ...
products), they are now part of the
Dialog Semiconductor
Dialog Semiconductor PLC is an American founded UK-Domiciled manufacturer of semiconductor-based system solutions. The company is headquartered in the United Kingdom in Reading, with a global sales, R&D and marketing organization. Dialog create ...
portfolio. Silego was ranked the second-fastest growing semiconductor company in North America at the 2011
Deloitte
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (), commonly referred to as Deloitte, is an international professional services network headquartered in London, England. Deloitte is the largest professional services network by revenue and number of professio ...
Technology Fast 500 event held in
Menlo Park, California
Menlo Park is a city at the eastern edge of San Mateo County within the San Francisco Bay Area of California in the United States. It is bordered by San Francisco Bay on the north and east; East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, and Stanford to the so ...
. By August 2016, the company had shipped more than 2 billion CMICs.
Products
* Programmable Mixed-signal Matrix: Dual Supply GreenPAK, GreenPAK with Power Switches, GreenPAK with Asynchronous State Machine (ASM), Micropower Operational Amplifiers.
* High-performance Integrated Power
Switches
In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can disconnect or connect the conducting path in an electrical circuit, interrupting the electric current or diverting it from one conductor to another. The most common type ...
and
MOSFET
The metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated by the controlled oxidation of silicon. It has an insulated gate, the voltage of which d ...
drivers: HFET 1, GreenFET 3, GreenFET 1, CurrentPAK.
* 32.768 kHz and MHz clocks: GreenCLK 3, GreenCLK 2, GreenCLK 1, System & Server Clocks.
* BCID, QC 2.0: Fast Charge Identification.
References
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External links
Official Dialog Semiconductor website
Semiconductor companies of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in California
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Companies based in Santa Clara, California
Computer companies established in 2001
Electronics companies established in 2001
2001 establishments in California