Silego Clears the Board

One of the most innovative technologies presented during the recent Globalpress Electronics Summit 2010 was Silego Technology Inc.’s GreenSAK—a metal mask programmable IC that integrates common digital and analog components, and removes up to 30 percent of all the passive and simple active components on a typical PCB design. The device, available in a 2x2mm TDFN package, has been designed to operate as a stand along IC capable of performing many 4-bit and 8-bit microcontroller applications, and work in conjunction with Silego’s GreenCLK (timing) and GreenFET drivers (power sequencing) to clear a fair amount of devices in board designs.

At the conference, John McDonald, Vice president of Marketing and Sales at Silego noted that most people in the technical community will laugh when they see the device because the innovation is “so counter-intuitive. It’s been sitting there right under people’s noses.”

“Silego’s GreenSAK products are the first ICs available to cost effectively remove massive numbers of passive and simple active components from large designs, improving reliability and reducing procurement issues while saving board area, power and cost,” said McDonald. GreenSAK is also the logic and mixed signal element of Silego’s Green Product strategy for large computation and communication system boards. The devices are often used to remove power on resets, temperature sensor interface ICs, delay or timing related logic, IC support logic, and power good circuits.

Another technology introduce by Silego is the GreenPAK, a one-time programmable micro-FPGA with configurable analog components, and a device that works in conjunction with the GreenCLK and GreenFET drivers to remove up to 25 percent of components on system boards. GreenPAK, as a stand-alone product, is targeted at many 4 and 8-bit microcontroller applications as well. The on-board finite state machine, logic, counters, delays, ADC, voltage reference, oscillator, and PWM allow for numerous applications, including interface to sensors of all types, LED drivers, motor controllers, touch sensing, and over voltage protection.

Silego’s GreenSAK and GreenPAK product families are designed to complement each other, noted McDonald. “The success of the GreenPAK and its sibling, the GreenSAK product family, contributes to Silego’s vision of providing a comprehensive suite of ICs that clean up every PCB by reducing component count, simplifying design, and saving power and board space,” he said.

Silego Technology Inc.