Sept 16 2009 : PE IC Design GmbH has merged with the parent company PE Processintegration GmbH

May 2009 : PE IC Design at Sensor and test Fair in Nueremberg

Come and see our latest innovations in PowerFactorCorrection for lighting applications and for a greener Planet. We will also show a sensor data monitoring RFID system employing our SmartRFID Chip PE3001. Come to see us in hall 12 booth 474 where we will be demonstrating our Capacitive Sensing Technology expertise featuring a presentation in cooperation with Ident Technlogy AG and their ZeroPower(R) application.

Dec 2008 : PE IC Design supports School partnership program in Nepal

PE is a sponsor of the pupils Namaste Nepal School partnership program. This non profit organisation, mainly organized by the pupils of the Scholl-Gymnasium (Grammar School) in Freiberg/Saxony, supports the Kali Devi Primary School in the village of Gati in Nepal. After building the school they pay salery for teachers and extend their activities constantly to enable a better education and life in the village.

01/10/08 : PE IC Design GmbH to provide Power-Saving-Integrated-Circuits

Less than 2.5 years after the foundation of Productivity Engineering IC Design GmbH (PE) in Kesselsdorf near Dresden there are 10 engineers working on customer specific integrated microelectronic circuits. This was the declared goal when the decision was made to establish PE in Dresden and it has become reality now. PE has strongly invested into EDA (Electronic Design Automation) software tools last year. This investment is the foundation to be able to develop highly specialized solutions. PE has developed customer ICs in silicon technologies ranging from 1 micron to 350 nanometer over the last 2.5 years.
The long lasting business relationship between "ASIC Design Malsch", an independent ASIC development company in Bad Schandau near Dresden and "PE IC Design GmbH" has lead to a friendly "take-over" of all assets of "ASIC Design Malsch" on January 1st 2008. We are quite happy that R. Malsch took the decision t o bring his many years of experience and recognition in the industry into our company. He will keep on supporting his former customer base and will support current and new customers of PE IC design as a "Senior ASIC Design Engineer".
PE will introduce its own new family of integrated circuits for Power Factor Correction (PFC) this year. These standard products will be implemented into switching power supplies. Electric power plants worldwide have to drive a certain power-overhead into their networks for the final user who takes the power from the wall plug socket. Parts of this wasted electric power, experts claim it can be as much as 10%, is reactive power consumed by switching power supplies. This is energy that is not dissipated in the load but will be returned to the source on each alternating current cycle. To reduce this reactive power a Power Factor Correction circuit brings the power factor of an AC power circuit like a switching power supply closer to 100% efficiency by supplying reactive power of opposite sign. PE is developing several ICs for different applications by using new highly efficient and flexible techniques. The project is funded in parts by the European fund for regional development (EFRE) and the state of Saxony. To download a feature sheet click (here->).