Si-Ware Systems is an Egyptian company established in 2004 that designs and develops semiconductor technologies and products. It has over 100 engineers and offices in Cairo, Los Angeles, and Paris. Si-Ware provides ASIC solutions for sensors and develops its own MEMS and optical technologies. One of its ASICs is used by leading sensor company First Sensors in high-performance inclinometers. Si-Ware also partnered with Ossia to develop an ASIC for wireless power charging. It aims to foster silicon innovation through its custom ASICs and technologies like its NeoSpectra optical MEMS sensor.

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An Egyptian dream come true…
Aug 31, 2016

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Si-Ware Systems (SWS) in Brief
Established in 2004 as a design house and IP provider
• Demanding A/M-S & RF solutions with emphasis on timing, sensing and wireless applications
Founded by experts from the IC and MEMS industries
Evolved into a product company and technology incubator
• ASIC Solutions: Analog/Mixed-Signal/RF ASIC development and supply
• Optical MEMS Technology: NeoSpectra™ FT-IR Spectral Sensor
• Incubating technologies
• All silicon clock oscillator: Self Compensated Oscillator – SCO™
• Inertial system applications: stabilized platforms, IMUs
Strong drive for innovation  Large portfolio of patents and proprietary IP
More than 100 design & product engineers
ISO 9001:2008 certified
Headquarters in Cairo, Egypt
• Subsidiaries in Los Angeles, California and Paris, France
Fostering Silicon Innovation

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SWS Mission
SWS is fostering silicon innovation by designing and developing breakthrough
semiconductor technologies and products that enable new and innovative
applications and markets.
Fostering Silicon Innovation

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SWS1110 Used by Top Sensor Suppliers
• Best in class gyro
• Aerospace & industrial applications
• Being designed into Airbus
High Performance Gyro
High Performance
Inclinometer
• Best in class inclinometer
• Applications – Geo-Engineering,
Navigation, Industrial,…
High Performance
Gyros & Accels
• Aerospace & industrial applications

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Si-Ware ASIC for Accelerometer/Gyro: SWS1110
First Sensors, $150M German leader in sensors, uses the SWS1110 ASIC
• Have been evaluating and productizing for many months
• “Best we evaluated”
Status: production 2016
Application: ultra high performance inclinometer
• Noise density <30µg/√Hz; bias repeatability <500µg
• Resolution <0.0015
• Bias Repeatability = ±0.003
German Customer: First Sensor
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Press release:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-
releases/sws-enables-first-sensors-
accelerometers-and-inclinometers-
300070872.html?tc=eml_cleartime

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RF Wireless Charging
SWS latest ASIC development in wireless and RF is for RF wireless charging
SWS took Cota from system to silicon
• Ossia had a novel concept and an initial concept/demonstration prototype
• SWS turned the concept into a commercially viable solution, with a highly efficient chipset
Si-Ware Transformed Cota™ Technology from Ossia to Silicon Reality!

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Si-Ware – Ossia Press Release and Demo at CES
Cota system displayed by
Ossia at CES 2016 show…

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From customer system requirements  Develop custom ASIC solutions
Si-Ware a Custom ASIC Supplier…
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SENSORS & MEMS
Capacitive, resistive and
quartz sensor interfaces
and signal processing
WIRELESS & RF
RF transceivers for
standard and proprietary
ISM band wireless
communication
TIMING
Frequency synthesizers,
MEMS/XTAL oscillators
and clock generation
POWER MANAGEMENT
High efficiency switching
and linear regulators
and battery interface

9. Optical MEMS Technology
NeoSpectra™ and SiMOST™

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SILICON MICRO OPTICAL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY
Putting Optical Systems on Chip
Unique Proprietary MEMS Process Technology
Moving
Mirror Motor
Fixed
Mirror
Photodetector
Beamsplitter
Light
Source
Moving Mirror
Fixed
mirror
Beamsplitt
er
MEMS Actuator
i/p fiber
o/p fiber
◘ Si validated blocks library
◘ High quality optical surfaces
◘ Excellent verticality 500um high mirrors
◘ Long travel range actuators
◘ Self aligned components by design
◘ Electronics drive & control

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Monolithic Michelson
Interferometer MEMS Chip
• Contains all of the optics
Proprietary ASIC
• Highly integrated electronics
Single InGaAs Photodetector
NeoSpectra NIR FT-IR Spectral Sensor Module
Creating a Commercial Product
FCPC
connector
Micro-USB

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SoliCares
• In field soil-analysis by farmers
• Conventional way
• Samples collected from field and sent to lab
• Multiple samples analyzed in the lab
• Report is sent to land owner
SPECTROMETER APPLICATIONS
◘ The Neo way
◘ No sample preparation & delivery
◘ Instant reporting
◘ Larger adoption
◘ Scalability
Medical
◘ At-home medical analysis
◘ Conventional way
◘ Inconvenient sampling experience
◘ Long process
◘ Analysis is done only when patients fills ill
◘ The Neo way
◘ Automated frequent process
◘ Can predict illness
◘ Individualized diagnostics
Pharmaceutical
◘ Instant analysis of raw materials
◘ Conventional way
◘ Sample gets defected during transportation
◘ Analysis is done at specific phases of
medicine production
◘ The Neo way
◘ Analysis can be done quickly with
minimum sample handling
◘ Quality assurance at all phases of
materials development (from raw
materials’ harvest to pills)

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World’s Smallest Spectrometer
Next Generation
Spectrometer…
In Production
Q2 2016!!
Integration &
miniaturization…
A single package
sensor!!

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SWS – A true “More than Moore” Company
Partnering to build Solutions for
the Future – IoT
Smart City,
Home, Grid,
Farming…
Healthcare &
Wellbeing
Connected
Cars, Trains,…
Wearables

15. Thank
you
5/12/16 15CETC-ISA Collaboration