Sames [SAMES]

SAMES was established in 1979. SAMES is a wholly owned subsidiary of Labat Africa Ltd, a diversified group listed on the JSE. SAMES brings the benefits of micro-electronics to the Southern African region. Today SAMES exports over 90% of its production to 35 countries in various parts of the world.

The services of SAMES include: detailed ASIC implementation for digital, analog and mixed-signal designs, standard cell and full custom (both digital and analog) and software/mathematical modelling and testing, Verilog / VHDL code generation SAMES is the only commercial semiconductor manufacturing facility in Africa. It is an integrated operation undertaking the design, manufacture and marketing of high performance analogue and mixed signal integrated circuits. The company is ISO 9001 certified. The company offers proprietary products in a number of market segments, customer-specific integrated circuits (CSICs) and foundry services. SAMES offers a low-cost solution for ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) prototyping through the use of an MPW service. This service run allows users to access expensive waferfab technology at a fraction of the normal cost. This is achieved by spreading the cost of silicon wafers and masks over many different users by consolidating individual customer designs for manufacture on the same wafer.

SAMES markets its products in every part of the world through a well-established network of agents and distributors. The company occupies a dominant position in certain global market segments. SAMES’s service is ideal for customers who wish to prototype a new design or an innovative idea without the otherwise prohibitive cost of a fully customised engineering run. SAMES has extensive experience in the development of customer-specific integrated circuits (CSICs).