About Sofics

Sofics is a semiconductor IP provider based in Belgium. We provide specialty I/Os and ESD protection to more than 150+ customers worldwide. Fabless companies using Sofics IP can enable higher performance, higher robustness and reduce design time and cost.

Our technology has been characterized on leading foundries like TSMC, SMIC, UMC, GF, Samsung Foundry, HHGrace and more. Available for CMOS, BCD, FinFET, Nanosheet, SOI technology. Proven from 0.35um down to 2nm.

Our customers have integrated Sofics IP into thousands of IC designs across many different application verticals. Sofics IP is used in 40% of recent Bluetooth products, billions of smartphone imager chips, over a billion FPGA chips, most of the indoor positioning applications, in several car models and keys, optical communication modules for datacenters from multiple vendors and many other applications....

Our fabless customers use foundry provided IO pads for the general purpose interfaces. For more difficult requirements they use Sofics IP
- Higher ESD robustness requirement for e.g. DisplayPort/HDMI/USB/… or automotive interfaces
- Lower parasitic capacitance for high-speed interfaces (30% to 50% lower capacitance)
- Lower leakage for wireless or sensor interfaces (100x lower compared to foundry)
- Flexibility for e.g. cases where IO-segments are used instead of an IO-ring
- Fail-safe, hot-swap, cold-spare interface requirements
- Higher voltage tolerance (e.g. 5V tolerant I/O)
- Reduced total ESD area