Allegro has forty years experience in the semiconductor industry. With over 3,000 employees worldwide, Allegro is headquartered in Worcester, MA, where corporate management, design, marketing and customer service are located in a 250,000 sq. ft. facility. The company also has a 100K sq. ft. business development facility in New Hampshire that houses business management, marketing, design, and product test.
Wafers are manufactured at an affiliated company (Polar Semiconductor) located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Production test and select product assembly is housed in a wholly owned subsidiary located in the Philippines. There are additional remote sites worldwide that support design, applications, and sales functions. Sales are balanced worldwide throughout North and South America, Europe, Japan and Asia-Pacific, with products sold primarily to OEMs through a strong worldwide sales channel that includes a direct sales force, manufacturers’ representatives and distribution. The company is TS16949 and ISO14001 registered and has received quality awards from leading manufacturers worldwide. Allegro Microsystems is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sanken North America, Inc., a Delaware Corporation. The parent company is Sanken Electric Co., Ltd, a billion-dollar company that manufactures semiconductors, discretes, LEDs, and switch mode power supplies, with headquarters in Saitama, Japan.
Allegro Microsystems Product Highlights
Allegro is currently organized into two technology-defined business units. These business units are paving parallel paths of expansion, up-integration, and diversification by entering or broadening into markets with higher growth.
Current Sensor IC's
The Sensor group produces Hall-effect sensor ICs offering contactless sensing for applications such as direction-detection, gear-tooth, speed, linear, angle, current and position sensing for automotive, industrial, consumer, and portable electronics.Motor Driver IC's
The IC group produces power ICs for motor drivers, motor control and switching regulation. Allegro's ICs are used in office automation (particularly printers), industrial, automotive and portable electronics markets.Regulators and Lighting
Allegro offers a growing portfolio of LED drivers used for signs, display backlighting, architectural and automotive lighting applications. The devices offer a wide variety of topologies, channel counts, output currents and feature sets to help customers optimize solutions. Single Output Regulators Multiple Output Regulators Low Noise Block Regulators for Set Top Boxes LED Drivers for Backlighting LED Drivers for Lighting.