Products

Sunrise Micro Devices is currently developing low-power, low-cost Wireless Personal Area Network SoCs for applications such as asset tracking, health monitoring, smart grid communications, and home/building automation. Our mission is to enable ubiquitous WPANs by producing low-power solutions having the smallest form factor, lowest total cost, and fewest components – leading to manufacturing simplicity and increased product reliability.

1V CMOS circuit design is a distinguishing feature of SMD products, one that enables minimum power consumption and compatibility with low-voltage energy sources. Operation from 3.6V sources (e.g., lithium batteries) is also supported when needed. Our products typically have high levels of integration, placing wireless transceivers, MCU cores, RAM, ROM, power management, data converters, and multiple types of analog and digital interfaces on a single chip. These state-of-the-art SoCs offer significant cost, size, power, and parts count reductions when compared to discrete or partially integrated alternatives.

SMD also offers individual functions as analog IP blocks or synthesizable RTL. The following functions are presently available:

AES Encryption Engine

SMD1901: An Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) engine in RTL (Verilog), suitable for use in IEEE 802.15.4 applications as an ARM-bus memory-mapped peripheral. The SMD1901 has been validated (NIST validation #1714) to perform AES encryption in both counter and CBC modes per FIPS 197, with a key length of 128 bits, and requires only 12 clock cycles to produce 16 bytes of ciphertext. A Verilog testbench, including all validation vectors, is included for use in both Linux and Windows environments.

Sensor A/D Converter

SMD1801: A 10-bit successive approximation A/D converter with a sampling rate of 200 ksamples/s. Features include an 8-channel input, a built-in temperature sensor and a supply voltage range from 0.9V to 3.6V. The design is currently available in the TSMC 90 nm, Global Foundries 130 nm, and IBM 8RF (130 nm) processes.