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About Silicon Investigations
Silicon Investigations was originally founded as a semiconductor
reverse engineering company. We have grown as a provider of
highly specialized services for the semiconductor and electronics
industries. We offer many diverse services to industry and
academia, including semiconductor
and electronic systems reverse engineering, product development
consulting, electronic
design and prototyping , high vacuum
system design and retrofit, scientific
and industrial electronic repair, I.C.
decapsulation services and decapsulation machine repair services, intellectual
property and patent support services, high
voltage and high current trigger tube design and manufacturing,
support
and repair of Hewlett Packard (Agilent) test equipment, and
semiconductor design consulting. In addition, we also conduct
basic research in semiconductor design, characterization, and process
development for emerging technologies.
We have extensive in house prototyping capabilities for semiconductor
and electronic circuit designs. Our semiconductor research and
prototyping equipment includes lithography and lithographic mask
production, plasma and wet processing of semiconductor devices,
processing furnaces, vacuum metalization and deposition systems, CMP
and CVD systems, wafer probers, wafer dicing equipment, wire bonding
and die bonding systems, optical and electron microscopes, laser
machining and processing systems, diagnostic laser cutters, cryogenic
processing and test systems, and electrical test and characterization
equipment. We also have support for MEMS manufacturing with high
aspect ratio plasma etching. In addition, we can fabricate
ceramic substrate multi chip modules (MCM) and specialized high
frequency substrates. Having a wide variety of in house
capabilities speeds our response to projects by cutting out the third
party suppliers and the associated lead times found in those industries.
As a natural consequence to having a limited R&D budget, we became
proficient in maintaining our own equipment and acquiring used
equipment to stretch our budget. This lead us to offer these
services to customers in addition to our original reverse engineering
services. Today, we are providing repair services for older
Hewlett Packard, Agilent, IFR, Marconi and Aeroflex test equipment
throughout industry,
government and academia. We are sole source for some HP models
and stock refurbished assemblies for many of the models we actively
support. A list of HP equipment we specialize in is located
here.
For IFR, Marconi and Aeroflex spectrum analyzers, etc., please see here.
Over the last several years, we have greatly expanded services
offered in support of older equipment. We have found,
particularly in the current economy, that we can extend R&D budgets
and considerably reduce capital equipment expenses.
In addition to the test and measurement equipment we repair, we also
maintain, retrofit with modern controls, and design high and ultra high
vacuum systems. We can extend the life of your expensive high
vacuum equipment by adding modern controls and redesigning under
performing subsystems. Examples of the types of vacuum systems
include sputter and thermal deposition systems, electron beam
evaporation systems, vacuum thermal processing chambers, and cryogenic
vacuum chambers. Please visit our vacuum systems
page for more information.
For
a partial list of our satisfied customers, please follow this link.
Please
call us at 920-955-3693 or email sales@siliconinvestigations.com
for further information on our services.
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