Silicon Catalyst, the silicon startup incubator, has admitted four more companies.

The incubator enables new semiconductor companies to address the challenges in moving from idea to realisation, offering early-stage chip startups a coalition of In-Kind and Strategic Partners to reduce the cost and complexity of development.

• 5D Sensing
• Advanced CMOS Sensors for Smart City and Safe City applications
• Headquarters: Israel
• California Memory Technologies
• DDR Memory Controllers and PHY IP
• Headquarters: Silicon Valley
• Multifractal Semiconductors
• Fully-integrated E-band mmWave front-ends in silicon
• Headquarters: South Africa
• Teramics
• Leading mmWave Solutions
• Headquarters: Silicon Valley

New Portfolio Companies in the Silicon Catalyst Incubator – June 2020

5D Sensing Roni El-Bahar, Ph.D – CEO www.5d-sensing.com

5D Sensing has built a unique sensor that solves the “smart camera” sensing technology requirements by adding the 2D night vision, 2D daylight vision, ultra low-light and 3D point cloud into a single CMOS sensor. 5D Sensing is using multiple technologies to make advanced sensors: proprietary AMS readout circuit for the SPAD detector, proprietary time domain signal processing allowing for the capture of both 2D and 3D images concurrently, advanced noise cancellation to implement S-SiPM, wafer bonding, back-side illumination and optical optimizations.

California Memory Technologies Saswat Mishra, CEO www.memtech.ai

California Memory Technologies is a memory solutions company providing the world’s smallest DDR(Double Data Rate) SDRAM Controllers, PHY IPs, SDK Kits and Firmware using proprietary technology for AI/ML & HPC, Data centers, Automotive and Consumer markets. Our unique architecture gives us the advantage of building the smallest designs (30%-50% smaller than the competition), offering 300+ custom features in Controller and PHY combined for most applications. Memory solutions are also available for persistent memories, like MRAM-DDR3, MRAM-DDR4 and 3D X-point.

Multifractal Semiconductor Joe Valliarampath, Ph.D – CEO www.multifractalsemi.com/Multifractal Semiconductors is developing fully-integrated E-band front-ends in base silicon (CMOS/BiCMOS) as a single IC for the telecoms and automotive markets. Existing E-band links are bulky, expensive, power hungry and not suited for mass production as required by small cell densification and massive MIMO. Our key enabling technology includes actively enhanced high-Q E-band diplexers, which will be integrated with the LNA, PA, switches and mixers – all on-chip. Our customers can feed the output of our IC directly into their digital back-end. This will enable miniaturization of the entire E-band link and for the first time allow E-band small cell and massive MIMO to be realized.

Teramics Seyed Tabatabaei, Ph.D – CEO www.teramics.com/

Teramics has developed the most linear and efficient power amplifiers in Ka/Q/V bands. Complementing these innovative power amplifiers are a variety of cutting edge mmWave solutions from Teramics such as low noise amplifiers, and up and down converters. Teramics is also offering integrated solutions for full mmWave phased-array products to be deployed in commercial, defense and space applications.