High-Speed, High-Resolution Analog Front-End (AFE) IP

Bridging the Analog-to-Digital World with Unmatched Precision and Speed

In today’s most advanced systems—from high-bandwidth communications, automotive LiDAR, AI infrastructure to aerospace and instrumentation—the performance of the Analog Front-End is paramount. The AFE is the critical interface between real-world analog signals and the digital processing domain. Omni Design Technologies provides complete, highly-integrated, ultra-high-performance AFE IP subsystems that empower you to capture, digitize and manipulate data with the highest fidelity and speed, while minimizing power consumption and accelerating your time-to-market.

Technology Overview

The Challenge: Integrating a High-Performance Analog Front-End

Designing a discrete AFE is a profound engineering challenge. Integrating multiple high-speed analog blocks, managing noise and crosstalk, maintaining signal integrity, and ensuring stable performance across process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) is complex and resource-intensive. These design hurdles can lead to extended development cycles, increased integration risk, and compromised system performance.

The Omni Design Solution: Pre-Verified, Complete AFE Subsystems

Omni Design overcomes these challenges by offering complete, AFE IP subsystem. Our solutions are built around our industry-leading SWIFT™ Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) and Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs) and integrates all the critical components required for a robust signal chain.

By providing a pre-verified subsystem, we handle the intricacies of analog integration, allowing you to focus on the rest of your design and system-level innovation. Our AFE solutions are highly configurable, enabling you to create optimized solutions for your specific application needs.

Key Features and Benefits

Industry-Leading Performance: Built around our flagship SWIFT™ Data Converters, delivering ultra-high sample rates (GS/s) and high resolution.
Complete, Integrated Subsystem: Includes high-speed ADCs, PGAs, LNAs, filters, multiplexers, bandgap references, LDOs and other supporting sub-systems in a single, verified IP core.
Exceptional Signal Integrity: Meticulously designed and laid out to minimize noise, distortion, and crosstalk, ensuring superior dynamic performance (SFDR, SNR, ENOB).
Highly Configurable: Easily customize channel count, bandwidth, resolution, and gain settings to meet the precise requirements of your application.
Low Power Consumption: Leverages advanced design techniques to deliver class-leading performance at a fraction of the power of competing solutions.
Reduced Integration Risk & Faster Time-to-Market: Move from concept to silicon faster with a proven, complete IP solution that eliminates complex analog integration challenges.

Omni Design’s AFEs are available in a variety of process nodes from 28nm to advanced FinFET. Our supporting technologies can be combined with analog front ends (AFEs) and digital logic for higher integration solutions as IP, chiplets or droplets.

Contact us for your specific requirements for utilizing Omni Design’s AFE technology.