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Benchmarq North American Company Profiles
Products and Processes
Benchmarq's product portfolio consists of CMOS and BiCMOS mixed-signal circuits. The focus is on low-power,
battery-backed ICs and ICs for battery management. Geometries on its devices range from 0.8μm to 1.2μm.
Benchmarq’s IC product families include:
• Battery management ICs and modules that provide fast charge control, sophisticated battery conditioning, and
“gas gauge” capacity monitoring of many different types of battery-operated systems.
• Real-time clock ICs and modules, which provide highly integrated clock/calendar solutions for microcomputerbased
designs. The RTCs are available with 3V or 5V operation.
• Nonvolatile SRAM (nvSRAM) and PSRAM (nvPSRAM) ICs in densities ranging from 64K to 16M.
• Nonvolatile controller ICs and modules that provide power monitoring, write protection, and supply switching to
convert standard SRAM and a battery backup into a reliable, predictable nonvolatile memory.
Semiconductor Fabrication Facilities
The company is fabless, relying instead on domestic and overseas foundries for wafer fabrication. Burn-in and test
of ICs and value-added assembly of hybrid circuits is performed at the company's headquarters in Texas.
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