Innovation Meets Customization: Unlocking breakthroughs in next-gen sensing
Discover how ams OSRAM’s ASIC customization, in-silicon innovation, and advanced packaging deliver reliable, efficient and high-performance sensing solutions for industrial and medical applications.
Customization to meet power, reliability, and integration needs in next-gen sensing
Across the industrial and medical sectors, engineers and product leaders face the same persistent dilemma: how to deliver smarter, more feature-rich sensing in space- and power-constrained designs, while meeting stringent lifetime, reliability, and safety requirements? For years, the answer meant trading performance for convenience, often relying on generic chips that limited product differentiation.
At ams OSRAM, these trade-offs are a thing of the past. Customization – true ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) and system-level adaptation – is redefining what’s possible for industrial sensing and control applications.
Understanding customer requirements in industrial and medical applications
Device form factors keep shrinking. Critical systems – whether on a factory floor or in a medical device – require long-term reliability, extended temperature range, and ultra-low standby power. Battery runtime is non-negotiable, and suppliers must deliver not just incremental but breakthrough improvements. When high performance, robust safety mechanisms, low noise floors, and energy efficiency are all mandatory, truly tailored solutions fit.
How ams OSRAM delivers industry-tailored innovation
In-house CMOS/process customization for application-driven performance
ams OSRAM's deep expertise across mixed-signal design, high-voltage processes, and application-specific process integration enables industrial customers to break free from off-the-shelf limitations. In-house design means rapid adaptation: custom optical interfaces for harsh environments or medically certified analog front-ends, all realized with best-in-class analog performance and long-term supply stability.
Patented architectures deliver unrivaled power and precision
With over 13,000 patents, including advanced amplifier and ADC designs, our R&D delivers tangible benefits: ultra-low noise (SNR improvement), stable operation across temperature, and breakthrough energy efficiency, all in field-proven, compact silicon. Case in point: our patented amplifiers halve noise without increasing power, a game-changer for safety light curtains and precision medical sensors.
Advanced packaging, system-in-package for true integration
Industrial and medical integrators need more than an advanced chip, they need system-level performance and confidence. We offer photodiodes, signal chains, and microcontroller logic co-packaged – even with optical filters or mechanical protection – all in a single, reliable module. Integration technologies like TSV (Through-Silicon Via), 2.5D/3D stacking, and robust PCB assembly dramatically boost density and cut field failure rates.
Partnership: from requirement to qualified production, first time right
Our engineers work directly with your teams – across specification, feasibility, safety assessment, prototyping, release, and ramp-up – to ensure delivered ASIC and System-in-Package (SiP) solutions are right for your market, first time. The result: market-differentiating, long-life sensors or modules that accelerate your competitiveness, whether for smart sensor interfaces, encoders, or drivers.
Real-world impact: advanced integration, cooling and noise management
ams OSRAM’s ASIC solutions provide step-change benefits precisely where industrial and medical engineers need them most: heat dissipation, cooling requirements, and noise reduction. By enabling higher levels of integration and delivering application-specific low power and low noise performance, our ASICs help customers simplify thermal management, reduce the need for extensive cooling infrastructure, and minimize electrical noise across complex systems. These are core performance criteria that enable reliable operation and support tighter system integration, proven in demanding environments from building automation to life science diagnostics.
Longevity and supply reliability with true dual source
ams OSRAM stands apart in its commitment to project longevity and supply security through a secured dual source supply chain. Even production via two independent and fully qualified part chains to prevent geopolitical risk and circumvent trade conflicts is possible. This also enables customers with lower volume requirements to launch and maintain projects within operational timeframes, and without exposure to typical supply chain disruption risks.
Working with one of the largest global semiconductor players, our customers benefit from both European-based design and manufacturing as well as strategic supply options that may deliver tax advantages. The ams OSRAM dual source model helps ensure peace of mind for both procurement and engineering, making long-term planning clear and reliable.
Break free from trade-offs – let us engineer the future together
Contact ams OSRAM’s ASIC experts to review your reliability, integration, or power challenges.
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