Company Profile
Chengdu Star-Source Information Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “Star-Source”), established in 2014, is a globally trusted provider of proprietary semiconductor IP and solutions for the wireless connectivity market. With deep, long-standing expertise in advanced domains—including wireless communications, low-power IoT, satellite communications, and navigation—our company delivers platform-based, turnkey chip customization services as well as RF and analog IP licensing to customers worldwide.Star-Source’s core IP is developed entirely in-house and has applied for and owns more than 100 patents. The team has specialized in RF and mixed-signal IC design for more than a decade, fully mastering the five core technologies of RF chip design and six key technologies essential to mass production. The performance of our chips and IPs meets domestic leadership and international advanced level standards, and our company has successfully achieved the transition from R&D to mass production, establishing critical barriers across the entire chain from design to high-volume manufacturing. By 2026, Star-Source will have brought over 200 chips and IPs products to market, completed more than 100 tape-outs, and the total production of chips will exceed 500 million dice—a track record that powerfully attests to the exceptional reliability and scalability of our technology platform.
Main Business
Products and Solutions: Comprehensive and Flexibly Products Address Diverse Requirements
Leveraging our proprietary IP cores, Star-Source has built a multi-dimensional product portfolio covering RF, analog, and custom chips. All products are implemented in advanced CMOS processes from 180 nm down to 12 nm, precisely matching your target application scenarios.
High-Performance RF IP
Targeting mobile communications, IoT, and satellite navigation, our portfolio features ultra-low-power, ultra-wideband RF transceiver IPs. It encompasses a broad range of low-power RF transceivers, high-performance PLLs, and function blocks for various RF transceiver chains—including 5G NB-IoT/GNSS Transceiver RF IP, Sub-GHz Transceiver RF IP, GNSS Receiver IP, BLE 5.2 Transceiver RF IP, Wi-Fi 6 Transceiver RF IP, and Cat.1 Transceiver RF IP.
Ultra-Low-Power Analog IP
Our comprehensive analog IP suite covers power management (BGR, LDO, DCDC, POR, SVD, Temp_sensor), data conversion (ADC, DAC, OPA), clock management (PLL, OSC, XO_driver_32KHz), and signal chain and interface (SerDes, LVDS, GPIO_200M). Every IP has been successfully validated in volume production across multiple customers and multi-process nodes. With seamless portability across eight mainstream advanced process nodes, these IPs significantly reduce integration risk and shorten your development cycles.
Chip Customization Services
We provide one-stop chip design services from specification definition to volume delivery.
- Satcom Chips: For the satellite Internet sector, we have successfully developed a K/Ka-band amplitude and phase control multi-function chip. The chip has achieved silicon validation, with key performance parameters meeting system integration requirements.
- GNSS Chips: Supporting all four major global navigation systems—GPS, BDS, GLONASS, and Galileo—our designs deliver high-precision, multi-mode, multi-band RF transceiver solutions.
- IoT Chips: Utilizing advanced low-power processes, these chips fully support sub-6 GHz bands and comprehensively cover mainstream IoT standards such as Cat.1, Cat.4, RedCap, and NB-IoT.
- General-Purpose Chip Series: This series comprises functional block chips for RF transceiver chains, high-performance PLLs, wideband RF transceivers, and analog chips, fully addressing a broad spectrum of wireless communication and radar sensing applications.
Backed by a platform-driven, high-efficiency delivery engine and proven by over 500 million chips in mass production, Star-Source is fully equipped to precisely meet your customized requirements. We are a long-term, trusted technology partner committed to accelerating your intelligent connectivity innovations.
Main Products
AGP214X Sub_ GHz Transceiver RF IP
Description：
Application Scenarios：Sub_ GHz Low Power consumption IoT State Grid HPLC+RF Standard、wireless control and ad-hoc network systems; it also enables intelligent solutions for industrial, agricultural, and environmental monitoring.
The AGP214X series Transceiver RF IP is implemented in a 40 nm CMOS process. The latest product, AGP215, operates over a frequency range of 200 MHz to 1040 MHz, covering three sub-bands: 200–260 MHz, 400–520 MHz, and 800–1040 MHz, and supports TDD half-duplex operation. The IP adopts a zero-IF/low-IF receiver and IQ direct up-conversion transmitter architecture for low-power design, supporting a supply voltage of 1.8 V to 3.6 V. The receive operating current is less than 8 mA, and the transmit operating current is 230 mA at 23 dBm output power. The IP integrates a sigma-delta fractional-N PLL, a DCXO, a zero-IF/low-IF receiver, automatic gain control (AGC), 12-bit SAR ADC/DAC, bandwidth-configurable low-pass/band-pass filters, a transmit IQ modulator, a transmit power amplifier, an SPI interface, and a JESD-207 RF baseband interface. The RF output power is adjustable from -30 dBm to +27 dBm.
AGP4104 GNSS Receiver IP
Application Scenarios：GNSS satellite navigation RF signal reception
The AGP4104 GNSS Receiver IP, fabricated in 22nm CMOS technology, is a highly integrated multi-mode, multi-band, triple-channel wideband GNSS RF receiver IP that fully supports the reception of satellite navigation signals from 1.1 GHz to 1.7 GHz. The IP integrates three independent receiver channels, each consisting of a low-noise amplifier (LNA) with a quadrature mixer (MIXER), a low-pass filter (LPF), an automatic gain control (AGC) loop, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a fully integrated integer-N phase-locked loop (PLL), and a clock PLL. Both analog and digital intermediate frequency (IF) outputs are supported.
AGP2171 WiFi 6 Transceiver RF IP
Description：
Application Scenarios：AP-side, smart home, Industrial Internet, and other high-data-rate transmission scenarios
AGP2171 is a highly integrated, high-performance WiFi 6 RF IP fabricated in 40LP CMOS technology. The test chip integrates an RF PLL, a clock PLL, 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz dual-band transmit/receive channels, high-speed ADC/DAC, and a high-speed JESD204B interface. The RFIP adopts a zero-IF receiver and IQ direct up-conversion transmitter architecture, supporting a supply voltage of 1.4 V to 3.6 V. The receive operating current is 90 mA, and the transmit operating current is 280 mA at 20 dBm output power.
LTE Cat1-Wifi-BT-GNSS Transceiver RF IP
Description：
The AGP4134 LTE Cat‑1/WiFi/BT/GNSS Transceiver is a highly integrated 1T2R RF transceiver IP implemented in a 40 nm CMOS process. It is designed for RF wireless signal transmission and reception in LTE Cat‑1, WiFi, Bluetooth (BT), and GNSS applications, supporting signal bandwidths of 1.4 MHz, 2 MHz (GNSS), 3 MHz, 4 MHz (GNSS), 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 15 MHz, 20 MHz, and 32 MHz (GNSS), and covering a frequency range from 700 MHz to 2700 MHz. The IP is compliant with 3GPP Release 17 and supports the FDD/TDD bands defined in R17 (Bands 1–14, 17–28, 30–53, 65–74). The AGP4134 supports 2.4 GHz WiFi and Bluetooth operation and extends to 2.3 GHz, 2.5 GHz, and 1.4 GHz bands for drone WiFi communications. It also receives GNSS signals on B1, B2, L1, and L5 frequency bands. The AGP4134 transceiver employs a zero‑IF/low‑IF receiver and an IQ direct up‑conversion modulator transmitter architecture, integrating one transmit path and two receive paths (1T2R). It operates from a 1.4 V to 3.6 V supply voltage, consuming 80 mA in 2R receive mode and 70 mA when transmitting at +2 dBm output power. The AGP4134 greatly simplifies the design of LTE Cat‑1, WiFi, BT, and GNSS modules, reducing both cost and power consumption. The transceiver internally integrates two wideband high‑performance sigma‑delta fractional‑N PLLs, three LTE single‑ended RF receive ports, two GNSS/WiFi/BT single‑ended RF receive ports, one feedback observation receiver RF port, three single‑ended RF transmit ports, a zero‑IF/low‑IF receiver, a DC offset auto‑calibration circuit, a low‑pass filter, an automatic gain control (AGC) interface, a transmit TIA and RC filter, a transmit IQ modulator, an RF attenuator, a transmit driver amplifier, an output balun, an output switch array, a transmit power envelope detection circuit, a loop‑back circuit, and an APB interface. The output power is adjustable from –70 dBm to +10 dBm