Analog front-end

• Low noise voltage amplifiers down to 4nV/sqrt(Hz)
• Charge amplifiers
• Very low-offset chopper amplifiers (>1uV)
• Switched capacitor filters
• Analog to Digital conversion, examples: 12bit SAR ADC with max 1,6Msps, 10bit SAR ADC 100ksps, pipelined ADC 10b, 20Msps, 16 bit sigma delta ADC 2nd order

Signal Processing

• Modulators and demodulators (2-30MHz)
• PLLs (8…160MHz)
• Direct digital synthesizers (max clock frequency 136MHz)
• Digital filters (FIR, IIR, average)
• Digital Post-processing: Offset, Gain, Clamping, Linearization (n, point, polynomial)
• Clock generation: trimmed RC-Oscillators +-2%, quartz oscillators, PLLs up to 160MHz

Sequence Control

• Complex state machines (hard-wired controllers) with OTP
• 8051 with synthesizable controller core arithmetic Coprocessor
• ARM Cortex 32b synthesizable controller core
• Large variety of ROM, RAM, EEPROM/Flash IP available

Actuation

• EMC optimized Full/Half bridges for inductive sensors
• Current driver up to 30Mhz
• Relay drivers and gate drivers for External MOSFETs

Interfaces and Outputs

• 10 to 12 bit DACs for analog out, protected to +-18V
• CAN/LIN/FlexRay physical layers
• PSI5 current interface
• SPI/UART/I2C interfaces
• EMC optimized PWM
• Customized digital protocols

Safety (IEC61508)

• Signal monitoring with auxiliary ADC
• Signal plausibilization using redundant paths
• Watchdog
• Memory integrity checks
• Diagnosis: broken supply, broken ground
• Failsafe communication protocols

Power management

• Low dropout regulators and DC/DC converters, load-dump protected
• Reverse polarity protection
• High voltage (max 50V) input and output protections
• ESD protection: 4kV HBM MIL883, 6kV IEC61000-4-2 (Zwickau)

Programming and calibration

• Polysilicon fuse OTP: blocks with 32b and 128 bit, scalable
• EEPROM: 128x8, 1kx8 (170C Tjunction)
• Interface for programming over output- or supply line