Success through international networking
TFAGroup 's founder, Dr. Peter Balsiger has received the Swiss Economic Award 2003 from the Swiss Economic Forum for the successful implementation of Dspfactory SA (Switzerland) and Dspfactory Ltd (Canada). Dspfactory focused on the ultra low power digital signal processing ASSP market and gained in only 4 years (2000- 2004) a global leader position for medical and consumer audio applications. Dspfactory has been acquired by Nasdaq listed company AMI Semiconductor in 2004. In 2007 ON Semiconductor integrated the business of AMI Semiconductor and became one of world biggest leading Semiconductor companies with a market capitalization of 3.5 billion US$. ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN) is a preferred supplier of high performance silicon solutions to customers in the computing, communications, consumer, automotive, medical, industrial, and military/aerospace markets.
TFAGroup technology and management consulting success goes back to the early 1987 when the digital revolution just started. Our founder, Dr. Peter Balsiger, has been from start of the digital revolution one of the players for signal processing applications. He has developed the concept of System-on-Chip for ultra low power implementations matching algorithm onto silicon. He received from Synopsys (Mountain View, California) 2002 the award for the best SOC chip design.
TFAGroup fully respect the secrecy and confidentiality of our customers information about company name and type of collaboration. Nevertheless, our expertise and know-how has been successfully applied in following product segments. We are proud to showcase some hereafter:
DTMF receiver |
Smart energy Meter (harmonic pollution) |
Cockpit-Tower speech recording (32 channel) |
Coriolis mass meter (gaz & liquid) |
Radiocontrol watch identification of the program listened to |
GSM handheld & network based positioning |
B Bluetooth stereo headset |
High-end diving computer |
Paragliding vario |
Cochlear Implants |
Digital Hearing Aids (CIC, ITE, BTE) |
Pacemaker |
Camara in a watch |
Cash dispenser, ATMS, recycler |
Highest precision micro-technology |
Digital smart stethoscope |
Noise reduction headset |
MP3 player |
Lung function measurement (also called pulmonary function tests, or PFTs) |
ISS crew communication system |
GPS positioning in watch |
Smart presence sensor for banking and security |
Mono- und poly crystalline thin film |
Ultra low power CMOS chip design, DSP cores, ADC, DAC,Video ADC |
3Dsmallest packaging |
Flex-hybrid packaging |
3 chip hybrid design (Flipchip, wirebond combined) |
CMOS image sensor |
System packaging for portable applications |
Signal processing for sensors, audio, image, video & measurement applications |
Optoelectronics for fiber optic and laser optic system |
Fiber optic & integrated interferometer, bragg grating, temperature sensor, pressure sensor, chemical sensor |
Image sensing & portable security applications |
Chemical sensors, MEMS, electronic driving of ultra smallest structures |
Process & production automation for very large volume production |
LED, Laserdiode, coupling optimization |
Holography |
Laser cutting, laser welding, laser for semiconductor doping |
Interferometrie & associated optoelectronic sensing system back |