Gallium arsenide foundry upgrades PDKs
The improvements allow engineers to use recent innovations added to IC design software from Agilent Technologies Inc.
The PDKs for UMS’s III-V processes can provide information for integrated 3D electromagnetic simulation engines within Agilent’s ADS and support chip stacking and native air-bridge, via hole and dielectric opening descriptions. This improves design accuracy beyond the native design rule check (DRC) and layout-versus-schematic (LVS) check, said Eric Leclerc, manager of UMS’s foundry business department, in a statement.
UMS, headquartered at Villebon-sur-Yvette, south of Paris, France, offers a family of III-V processes for monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) for foundry customers working in the defense, automotive, space, telecom, and industrial markets.
"We collaborated with UMS to incorporate advanced electromagnetic analysis, like native air-bridge support, and the latest ADS enhancements in their PDKs," said Juergen Hartung, foundry program manager of Agilent EEsof EDA, in the same statement.
With the upgraded PDKs customers will be able to use Momentum, a 3D planar electromagnetic simulator and an integrated 3D finite-element-method analyser.
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