SenseICs is a fabless semiconductor provider of integrated circuit chips and microelectronics hardware. We combine decades of engineering expertise designing custom, turnkey microelectronic solutions for defense and commercial needs in advanced imaging, communications, trusted microelectronics, and high radiation environments. Our technology is designed with trust and assurance at their core, ensuring your hardware is secure.
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Advanced Imaging
You can’t stay safe if you can’t see what’s coming. At SenseICs, we understand our customers’ needs for optimal visibility, even in sub-optimal conditions. That’s why we designed advanced imaging sensors that enable systems to capture images in any light. Unlike other technologies, which compromise high-quality images at either end of the light spectrum, lack sensitivity, and require costly and time-consuming processing, our sensors work smarter and at the pixel-level to adapt and react to different levels of light within a frame. Our advanced sensors work in one efficient capture to produce a crystal-clear, high-quality image.
Capabilities:
- IR ROICs
- Visible CMOS Image Sensors (CIS)
- Advanced 3DIC – Stacked integration and processing
Communications
Whether in friendly, congested, or contested environments, radio frequency (RF) technologies must be flexible and resilient. At SenseICs, we design RF microelectronics components and systems for applications in communications, 5G, radar, and electronic warfare. To help solve our customers’ unique problems, our technologies are agile and efficient across critical bands of the spectrum.
Capabilities:
- Trusted turnkey 5G RFIC designs
- Software defined radio (SDR)
- RF packaging and testing
Trusted Microelectronics
Integrated circuits are used in technologies all around us. But as their ubiquity increases, they also become more vulnerable to attack. SenseICs develops integrated circuits designed with security and authenticity at their core. Our circuits include encryption cores, fingerprints for authenticity tracking, and countermeasures against information leakage.
Capabilities:
- CMOS analog and digital designs from legacy to advanced nodes: 250 nm,
- 180 nm, 130 nm, 90 nm, 65 nm, 45 nm, 16 nm, 14 nm, and 12 nm
- IC authenticity and trustworthiness
- Domestic supply chain
High Radiation Environments
Extreme environments require complex circuitry solutions. High levels of radiation interfere with almost all circuit designs, leading to major malfunctions that can compromise an entire mission. SenseICs is one of few circuit design providers who are equipped with the intelligence to provide radiation-resistant circuitry. Our deep and unique experience with extreme environments enables us to think ahead and mitigate the negative effects of radiation at each phase of the design, testing, and validation process. Our circuits are reinforced against radiation and are built for innovative space or nuclear applications.
Capabilities:
- Radiation hardening by design:
- Enhanced total ionizing dose (TID) hardness
- Single event effects (SEE) mitigation
- Radiation effects testing
IP Verified Core Technologies
Event-Based IR ROICs
Our innovative event-based infrared (IR) readout integrated circuit (ROIC) technology is engineered for efficient, low-latency sensing by transmitting only meaningful changes in the infrared scene. Unlike traditional frame-based ROICs that capture entire images at fixed intervals, our architecture detects and communicates pixel-level changes asynchronously as they happen. This approach enables rapid, high-sensitivity infrared sensing with significantly reduced data throughput, making it ideal for next-generation imaging applications. The design supports address-event representation (AER) within a scalable, modular architecture, delivering precise temporal and spatial event information across both large and small arrays for fast, efficient downstream processing.
Reconfigurable Analog Front-end ASICs
We develop multi-channel analog front-end (AFE) ASICs that combine low noise, precise timing, and programmable control in a compact, power-efficient form factor. Designed to perform reliably in harsh radiation environments, our platforms are well-suited for applications in radiation detection, medical imaging, and high-energy physics. These radiation-hardened ASICs offer robust performance, enabling accurate signal acquisition and timing while delivering size, weight, and power (SWaP) advantages.
High Dynamic Range ROICs
Our high dynamic range (HDR) readout integrated circuit (ROIC) technology intelligently manage pixel exposure to capture detail across scenes with extreme contrast. By integrating edge intelligence features such as Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI), compressive sensing, and smart windowing, our designs enable real-time image optimization while minimizing data bandwidth and power consumption. These HDR ROICs are ideal for applications in navigation, surveillance, and situational monitoring where image clarity and efficiency are critical.
Long Range LiDAR System-on-a-Chip
We develop reconfigurable system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for LiDAR and altimetry that integrate front-end detection, on-chip histogramming, and advanced signal processing. Designed for scalability across airborne, spaceborne, and terrestrial platforms, these SoCs deliver precise time-of-flight measurements in a compact, power-efficient, and radiation-hardened package. Our architecture supports a range of photodetector types including Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) and linear avalanche photodiodes (APDs) and enables flexible channel configurations, making it ideal for long-range detection and high-resolution mapping in demanding environments.
Advanced Node Trusted ICs for Post-Quantum Cryptography
SenseICs develops advanced-node Integrated Circuits (ICs) that function as plug-and-play benchmarks for trusted microelectronics research. Our silicon-verified, multi-generational designs are engineered to enable exploration of second-order effects, hardware security, and system reliability. These ICs include advanced custom and standards-based encryption cores for post-quantum cryptography are actively used in research initiatives tackling the evolving challenges of microelectronic assurance and resilience within the domestic IC supply chain.
Wide-band GaN PAs and Transmitters
As high data rate wireless communication systems are developed for 5G, there is an increasing need for capable broadband power amplifiers (PAs). For advanced communication systems to be viable, Gallium Nitride (GaN) PAs must remain power efficient while accommodating linearity requirements of higher order modulation across multiple bands. Our goal is to provide a reconfigurable low size, weight, power, and cost transmitters capable of operation across the entire Mid-band 5G covering L, S, and C radio frequency bands.
Applications
Surveillance
Advanced imaging technology is a key functionality for The U.S. Army’s Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center under the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DVCOM). The DVCOM C5SIR needs to be able to capture images in any light and condition in order to provide optimal surveillance. To meet this need, SenseICs proposed to develop a high dynamic range (HDR) readout integrated circuit (ROIC) that is bioinspired to adapt to scene characteristics and capture HDR images with less data bandwidth. We are adapting the ROIC designs to perform operations in space and with UAS applications.
Lidar
Our HDR advanced imaging technology can be applied to Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) applications to revolutionize machine vision capabilities in defense, automotive, transportation, surveying, agriculture, and quality control industries. We utilize exceptionally sensitive infrared (IR) readout integrated circuit (ROIC) architecture to detect small targets at suboptimal atmospheric conditions and construct 3D images. This gives our technology an extraordinary advantage when applied in 3D mapping and situational awareness in urban and non-urban environments.
5G Midband
We have developed wide-band transmitter technology that operates within the 5G band, the 5G mid-band spectrum (between 1 and 8 GHz). This band is strategically important for the military because it provides reliable coverage, high-capacity , and quick communications. Enhanced connectivity of sensors, vehicles, and troops reduces the response time in the case of an emergency. This technology has other private sector potential such as applications in radar, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and virtual reality.
Telemetry
Program Executive Offices(PEO) of C5ISR need advanced communication technology in order to transmit action messages rapidly and accurately. The technology we have developed is used in military operations to communicate over any network such as commercial or government satellites or commercial cellular providers to support telemetry missions conducted across the globe. Our transmitter architecture is a fully integrated, high-output power, efficient solution with significant cost, size, weight, and power (C-SWaP) and spectrum agility benefits.
Circuit Security and Authenticity
A top priority at SenseICs is that anybody who uses our technology can be confident that their devices are equipped with an unprecedented level of security. To ensure trust and provenance in microelectronics integrity, fabrication supply chain and circuit intellectual property (IP) must be protected against malicious insertion, counterfeits, or information leakage. This is critical in commercial products interfacing with consumer data collection and storage but can be especially important for Department of Defense component integrity. In any commercial or defense application, our security solutions provide the authenticity and trustworthiness our US consumers deserve.
High Energy Physics (HEP) Experiments
HEP studies the nature of the particles that constitute matter and radiation. The Department of Energy plays a prominent role in this research and helping to better understand the world around us. Accelerators, detectors, and other computational tools are necessary to conduct research in this field, all of which need their data acquisition electronic front-ends to be radiation hard. Our engineers at SenseICs design circuitry for these applications to further explore the unknown.
Space
Space radiation is comprised of particles trapped in the Earth’s magnetic field, particles shot into space during solar flares, and galactic cosmic rays, all of which are dangerous and a hindrance for space missions. Any operations that take place in space require consideration of the radiation environment. Radiation wears material down, reducing instrument reliability and performance which is why it is important for the technology to be designed with radiation hardening in mind. Our circuits are reinforced against radiation making our technology perfect for space applications.
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