Silicon Designs, Inc.

Silicon Designs is located in the beautiful Pacific Northwest in the shadow of the Cascade mountains.

FACILITIES
Eleven thousand square foot leased facility located in Issaquah Washington, 15 miles east of Seattle (Map/ Driving Instructions).  400 sq. foot clean room for micro-machining of micro-sensors and 1,000 sq. foot clean room for hybrid and micro-assembly operations.  In-house processes include thin film deposition, diffusion, etching, micro-machining, sacrificial etching, plasma cleaning, dicing, auto die attach, auto wire bonding, lid sealing, auto testing, marking and MIL-STD-883 screening.

CAPABILITIES
Electronic, circuit, system, and product design.  Micro-machining and thin-film development, ASIC, hybrid, micro-sensor, and PC board design. Extensive CAD and computer software capability.  Product development, manufacturing, marketing and product improvement.  Custom developed automatic test capability.  Technology licensing to volume producers.

PRODUCTS
Analog and digital output accelerometers.  Stand-alone, instrumentation grade single and 3-axis accelerometer modules.  Self contained, battery operated, microprocessor based data loggers, thin film links and resistors, slapper detonators, micro-sensors, and contact fuse/impact sensors.   DOD Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts.

STAFF
Nineteen full time engineering, professional business and management staff.  Non union team in cooperative business setting.  The team is comprised of highly skilled, quality oriented, professionals with many years of multi-disciplined experience.

BUSINESS
Founded in 1983.  Sales about $2 million per year.  Financially strong company rated 2A2 by Dun and Bradstreet.  No outstanding bank debt.  Strong customer list in excess of 100 companies, including Fortune 500 companies.  Technology licensed to two Fortune 500 companies.

QUALITY ASSURANCE
Inspection and quality systems compliant with MIL-I-45208, equipment calibration to MIL-C-45662, clean room meeting FED-STD-209, ESD control to MIL-STD-1689, product screening to MIL-STD-883 and product qualification based on  MIL-PRF-38534 (non QML).   SPC implemented on critical processes.