Nanusens looking to port MEMS-inside-CMOS technology to smaller process nodes

Today, Nanusens, the Paignton supplier of MEMS sensors built inside CMOS, is finalising a Crowdcube fundraise to provide the funds to port its technology to a range of smaller process nodes.

Yesterday, Nanusens announced the first IP license agreement for its MEMS-in-ASIC technology with Azoteq, the volume sensor fusion IC specialist.

Details on how to invest starting from £10 are at https://www.crowdcube.com/companies/nanusens/pitches/bdpADb. It is also possible to invest directly with amounts starting at £20,000. More at: investment@nanusens.com

Nanusens technology enables its MEMS IP sensor structures to be made at the same time within a chip as other IP on the ASIC using standard CMOS processes, resulting in ASICs with embedded MEMS sensors.

This breakthrough of the integration of sensor solutions as IP blocks offers dramatic reductions in costs and size as it completely replaces the current solution of discrete sensor packages.

“Our business is based on creating multi-sensor solutions for customers who often need to include many sensors into space-constrained applications,” says Azoteq CTO Dieter Mellet, “Nanusens technology enables monolithic integration of MEMS within an IC and is perfect for us as we can now embed an array of 3D accelerometers into an existing IC, providing cost, power and space saving to our customers.”