When I worked for Motorola and then Freescale we made these chipsets for all the major players - the pricing got to be so low and every opportunity was hand to hand combat.. in other words there was no margin in the business. Are you doing this to get into the smoke detector business or just for fun to see if you can do it? I dont have much free time any more so I would likely go to the store and buy a smoke detector for under 10 dollars and be done with it if it were me.
The company in china who makes most of the chipsets was bought by microchip. there is not much to "design" the IC has integrated most of the functions - the detectors have some radiation in them so playing around with that stuff is not recommended unless you have already had kids and dont mind visits by the NRC to see what you are doing with the material... if you are making smoke detectors commercially you have certifications to contend with CSA, UL etc...
the way to wind up with a million dollars in the smoke detector business is to start out with 2 million dollars and dont stay in too long! See the link below - I dont want to discourage you however it is what it is.
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2018&mcparam=en553551