mSilica expands strategic partnership with Vanguard for next gen BCD and HV processes

SANTA CLARA, USA: mSilica, a smart LED driver IC provider for backlighting LCD-TV, notebook, and solid-state lighting has proudly selected Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp. (VIS) in Taiwan as one of its principal foundries for semiconductor wafer manufacturing. VIS provides customer specific BCD and HV processes for mSilica’s design needs and is continuously supporting new process features.

“Having a foundry partner like VIS enables mSilica to bring state-of-the-art LED drivers to its end market. The VIS high voltage BCD processes allow mSilica to significantly differentiate its architecture and gives unmatched degrees of freedom when designing power, precision and algorithmic circuits.

“We now have more than a dozen exciting products for LCD backlighting and intelligent solid-state lighting in mass production with leading LCD TV and monitor OEMs as well as industrial customers,” said Dilip S, co-founder and CTO at mSilica. “We value the highest level of technical support and logistics support that Vanguard provides to us,” said Surender Zutshi, Vice President of Operations at mSilica.

Leuh Fang, president of Vanguard, said: “Vanguard is one of the leading specialty foundry providers in the world.” Vanguard has provided its specialized expertise in analog/power management processes to mSilica.

“The highly integrated LED driver ICs we are now shipping to mSilica were processed by our specialized BCD process. BCD and high voltage processes ranging from sub-0.5um CMOS with voltage support from 16V to 800V are able to address LED driver ICs very effectively,” asserted Leuh Fang, “Vanguard is fully committed to becoming the preferred foundry supplier for LED driver ICs that meet demanding customers such as mSilica.”