Expertise

Pushing the envelope: low pressure, co-integrated and harsh media products

SMI has a history of expertise in low pressure sensing devices and high-quality manufacturing. The company’s low pressure know-how is responsible for its rising market share in critical automotive, medical, and industrial applications. Its attention to quality has also enabled it to engineer unique new products, including ultra-small sensor, a new “harsh media” pressure die for industrial and consumer applications, a single-die co-integrated pressure sensor, custom pressure sensors and miniature sensors in standard SOIC packages.

Low pressure

SMI offers a range of low-pressure products, reaching down to less than 10 mBar or 0.15 PSI full scale. A large number of OEMs depend on SMI as a reliable high-volume supplier of low-pressure die and packaged sensors. IMAGE

Integration

SMI’s expertise spans both sensors and microsystems. The company’s co-integrated die with digital signal correction and both digital and analog interfacing offers “smart sensing’ for automotive and medical applications, among others. SMI also offers customers full service signal processing modules, consisting of tightly linked but separate sensor and ASIC. IMAGE.

Ultra-small

SMI’s attention to continuous improvement resulted in the SM5108 “sub-miniature” die. The ultra-small size enables yield of over 25,000 die per wafer. IMAGE

Custom pressure sensors and MEMS devices

SMI has designed and manufactured a variety of custom Micro-Electro- Mechanical Systems (MEMS), including ultra-miniature catheter sensors, strain sensors, humidity sensors, accelerometer structures, custom pressure sensors and precision capacitive devices. It has leveraged its experience in these areas to bring added value to its core pressure sensor product line. IMAGE

IC style packaging

SMI’s family of packaged pressure sensor products are compatible with standard SOIC footprints. These packages allow easy mounting of pressure sensors to printed circuit boards and come in tape-and-reel configurations. SMI also offers all of its packages as RoHS compatible.