SOFICS

http://www.sofics.com/

SOFICS is world leader in innovative IC design for protection against Electrostatic Discharge (ESD). The company was founded as a subsidiary of Sarnoff Corporation, inventor of colour television, LCD & CMOS processing, but since June 2009 it has been a fully independent Flemish company with offices in Gistel, West Flanders and Aalter, East Flanders. SOFICS offers its employees challenging positions with interesting learning experiences, within an attractive corporate culture in which an entrepreneurial spirit and a pleasant and fun working atmosphere prevail. We are constantly creative, dynamic and innovative. In SOFICS you will find a prestigious market leader who gives you stability and a vision for the future.
Our teams develop, renew and commercialize a portfolio of know-how and patents (intellectual property - IP) for the protection of ICs against Electrostatic Discharge (ESD). Our innovations are at the intersection of circuit design, process technology, semiconductor physics, all ‘hot-consumer’ applications and your groundbreaking creativity. You will find our solutions in your mobile phone, your digital camera, your payment card, your most advanced game console, your PC, your PDA, your digital television and DVD player, your large and small screens, and even in the electronics of your car. Specifically, we have developed a completely new patented technology in the past year to protect ICs against the extreme conditions and demanding reliability tests of the modern car industry.
With us you work in a wide range of IC technologies (CMOS, BiCMOS, BCD, SOI ...) including the most advanced 4nm FinFET technology and you also work with a wide range of demanding applications such as high frequency, high data speed ICs, high voltage ICs, ASICs, FPGAs, communication ICs, chip card ICs, automotive ICs, analog and digital ICs ...
Our growth and stability are backed by an impressive customer list of absolute top companies with which we execute long-term agreements ... including Toshiba, Sony, Infineon, ST-Microelectronics, RICOH, Altera, PMC-Sierra, OKI, Seiko-Epson, Renesas ( Hitachi-Mitsubishi), SHARP, Fujitsu, Matsushita (Panasonic), CSR, Icera ...
The mission of SOFICS is to be a market leader in a stable and entrepreneurial environment, with superior knowledge and expertise of top-class engineers, within a company framework where responsibility, team spirit and mutual respect are of paramount importance; where continuous training is a must; where customer focus is paramount and where long-term relationships with our customers are pursued.
In financial terms, SOFICS is referred to as a fast grower with solid profit figures and an innovative entrepreneur with a strong customer list and a stable cash flow.