ASICs & Design Centers
By Lynn Reed

Tekmos is announcing a new program to partner with independent design centers to produce low cost ASICs for use in medical, industrial, and consumer products. This collaboration combines Tekmos’ skills....

Beneficial Quality Metrics
By Kelsey Casto

Although Quality Metrics sound uninteresting to the standard employee, any Quality representative should know that those metrics are the unsung heroes of a healthy company....

College Intern to Director of Quality
By Kelsey Casto

This October will be my 6th year as a Tekmos employee. Oh- how time flies. Tekmos has gotten to see me graduate college, buy my first house, get married, and so much more!...

Dealing with Obsolete Packages
By Kelsey Casto

Tekmos makes replacements for obsolete parts. While we can recreate any old design, our biggest obstacle comes in the packaging of the obsolete parts. In many cases, the packages themselves are obsolete...

Guard Banding
By Lynn Reed

The semiconductor manufacturing process is not perfect, and produces a percentage of defective parts. So, all parts are tested to ensure that they operate correctly and meet......

Inspection Qualifications
By Kelsey Casto

Since technology and applications seem to advance, it’s only fitting that Tekmos’ qualification testing advances as well. Within the last year, Tekmos has incorporated more reliability...

Old Design Techniques
By Lynn Reed

Tekmos reverse engineers many older circuits. As we do so, we come across interesting ways to implement logical function that are no longer in common use. I thought that we would show some of them....

New MOQs on Certain Parts
By Lynn Reed

Tekmos makes replacements for many obsolete parts, including processors, memories, and peripherals. We are the solution for replacing parts that have been end-of-life’ed by...

Military Screening and Qualification Procedures
By Kelsey Casto

Tekmos has had an increase in ASIC products required for military applications. Because of this we have had to incorporate military screening and qualification procedures.  Tekmos...

Tekmos History Part 1
By Lynn Reed

I have been wanting to put together a history timeline of Tekmos and share the unique and sometimes unfortunate natural disasters that have helped shape and grow our company...

Tekmos History Part 2
By Lynn Reed

2011 – Sendai Earthquake.  Tekmos had reverse engineered the 6805 and 6811 CPU cores, and was offering a few processors as replacements for obsolete Freescale / Motorola...

Tekmos 900th Design
By Lynn Reed

As with most semiconductor companies, Tekmos uses an internal number to identify designs. Since we frequently merge multiple designs onto a single layout, we use another number for the layout. And...

Tekmos to Streamline Sample Ordering
By Lynn Reed

Tekmos is streamlining sample ordering with our website online form inquiries.  Our marketing team has begun the process to place Tekmos standard parts in an online inquiry system..

Test Floor Production Manager
By Lynn Reed

Adrian DeLeon is the Post Manufacturing Test Floor Manager for Tekmos, a highly focused, and challenging leadership position in an often-fast paced environment. He is...

Tekmos Program Code Protocol
By Lynn Reed

At Tekmos we offer customers programming of parts for specific orders, applications, and needs from anything such as medical devices, conveyor systems, military parts, consumer technology, to even....