History

2011

• AnSem further strengthens its position in the healthcare market and releases a new eye pressure monitor ASIC for customer Sensimed
• AnSem appoints Dirk Logie as its new CEO
• AnSem strengthens its management team with the appointment of Stephen Ellwood as VP Engineering.

2010

• AnSem books another large ASIC project in the aerospace & defense market targeting aircraft vision systems
• AnSem strengthens its sales organization in Japan with the appointment of a Sales Manager in Japan.
• AnSem develops a novel architecture for FM car radio
• AnSem is awarded Trends Gazelles 2010

2009

• AnSem completes the development of a HomePNA ASIC solution for the communications market
• AnSem delivers its first design in a 40nm process
• AnSem and IMEC sign a cooperation agreement on Software Defined Radio ASIC's
• AnSem updates its ISO certification to the ISO9001:2008 standard

2008

• AnSem keeps on growing. The number of analog and mixed signal designers now exceeds 30
• AnSem celebrates its 10th year in business as a successful and renowned ASIC supplier.
• AnSem further strengthens its team with the appointment of a Marketing & Sales Manager and a Project Manager
• AnSem realizes a state of the art ultra low power transceiver with advanced RF energy harvesting circuitry.
• K-micro and AnSem form a strategic partnership to develop ASICs for the home networking market.
• AnSem's customers release new ASICs for wireless, medical and home networking applications.

2007

• AnSem is awarded the ISO 9001:2000 certification for analog and mixed signal custom IC design, IP based design and ASIC solutions.
• AnSem's analog and mixed-signal designers now grow to 20
• AnSem continues to grow its customer portfolio by adding 3 new customers

2006

• AnSem signs a research agreement with the ESAT-MICAS department of the K.U.Leuven university on battery-less wireless sensor nodes.
• AnSem welcomes 4 new customers

2005

• AnSem's management establishes a majority ownership in the company
• AnSem demonstrates its mixed-mode and mixed-signal capabilities in ASIC development to its customers.
• AnSem celebrates first-time-right silicon in the development of an OC3/OC12 SERDES in just 6 months
• AnSem now has customers on 4 continents (Europe, Americas, Asia and Australia).

2004

• AnSem releases its first analog designs in 90nm technology
• AnSem establishes a sales and marketing team.
• AnSem celebrates the addition of its 15^th design engineer.

 2003

• AnSem moves to a new location in Haasrode, Belgium.
• AnSem develops an ultra low-power Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) ASIC solution.
• AnSem realizes its first narrowband ISM transceiver.
• Volume shipments of an ultra low-power miniature FM receiver ASIC starts to customer Phonak

2002

• AnSem releases its first 0.13µm design.

2001

• AnSem number of analog and mixed-signal designers grows to 10

2000

• AnSem has customers in 3 continents (Americas, Europe and Japan)

1999

• AnSem realizes its first tape-out of a CMOS GPS front-end ASIC
• AnSem installs its own measurement lab

1998

• AnSem is created with seed capital from the Gemma Frisius Fund (GFF) of the K.U.Leuven university.
• The new AnSem books its first project for a Japanese customer