Xscend powers smart factory automation, collaborative robots, humanoid platforms, and precision manufacturing with integrated motor control, sensing, and connectivity—all on a single chip.
Factories are evolving from fixed, repetitive automation lines into flexible, intelligent production systems. Humanoid robots are stepping onto the factory floor to work alongside humans, handling unstructured tasks that traditional industrial arms cannot. Collaborative robots require precise multi-axis motor control to move safely and fluidly in shared workspaces, while machine vision systems inspect every part for quality at line speed.
This new generation of smart manufacturing demands silicon that can close the loop between sensing and actuation in microseconds—processing force, torque, and vision data in real time to enable safe, adaptive, and highly productive operations.
Xscend's integrated mixed-signal platform delivers single-chip motor control for each robot joint, eliminating discrete gate drivers, PMICs, and encoder interfaces to dramatically reduce board area and component count. High-speed sensor networks built on our SerDes technology connect cameras, force sensors, and edge AI processors across the factory floor with deterministic, low-latency links.
The result is a reduced bill of materials, faster time-to-market for new robot platforms, and a scalable architecture that grows from a single cobot cell to a fully connected smart factory—all built on a unified silicon foundation.
Building the smart factory of the future means solving fundamental problems in motion, sensing, and connectivity at unprecedented scale and speed.
Humanoid robots need 20 to 40 joints, each requiring independent closed-loop servo control running at kHz update rates. Every joint must coordinate seamlessly with the others to produce fluid, safe movement—demanding extreme precision and deterministic timing from the underlying motor control silicon.
Safe human-robot collaboration requires combining vision, force, torque, and proximity data into a unified perception stream with sub-millisecond latency. The system must detect contact, predict human intent, and adjust motion trajectories in real time to prevent injury and enable delicate assembly tasks.
A single production cell can contain hundreds of sensors and actuators, all requiring deterministic, low-latency communication. Scaling from one robot to an entire factory floor means the network must handle massive data throughput while guaranteeing bounded latency for safety-critical control loops.
Purpose-built silicon that addresses every layer of the smart factory stack—from individual joint control to factory-wide connectivity.
A single chip for each robot joint that combines a high-performance processor core, precision gate driver, integrated PMIC, and encoder interface. Eliminates up to a dozen discrete components per joint, dramatically shrinking board area while delivering the closed-loop bandwidth needed for kHz-rate servo control.
8 Gbps machine vision links over lightweight twisted-pair cabling connect high-resolution cameras to edge AI processors with minimal latency. Enables real-time quality inspection, object recognition, and spatial mapping across the factory floor without the bulk and cost of fiber-optic infrastructure.
High-accuracy analog front-ends capture subtle force and torque signals at each robot joint and end-effector, enabling safe human-robot interaction, compliant motion control, and the delicate touch required for precision assembly tasks in electronics and medical device manufacturing.
Intelligent power distribution for modular robot arms with hot-swap capability, allowing individual joints and tool modules to be replaced without powering down the entire system. Integrated fault protection and power sequencing ensure reliable operation across varying load conditions and mechanical configurations.
Talk to our engineering team about how Xscend's integrated silicon platform can accelerate your smart factory and robotics programs.
