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High-voltage CMOS, high-voltage Flash and RF Multi Project Wafer services schedule is released for foundry customers
austriamicrosystems’ best-in-class MPW service includes the whole range of 0.18 µm and 0.35 µm specialty processes. In order to provide leading analog semiconductor process technology, manufacturing and services, austriamicrosystems now offers four MPW runs in the 0.18 µm CMOS (C18) process as well as four MPW runs in its advanced 0.18 µm High-Voltage CMOS (H18) technology.
The H18 process technology is based on IBM’s industry proven 0.18 µm CMOS process CMOS7RF and offers industry-first RF (Radio Frequency) integration and high density SoC (System on a Chip) capability. It is perfectly suited for applications such as smart sensors, sensor interface devices, smart meters, industrial and building controls and LED lighting control in the automotive, industrial and medical markets.
For the 0.35 µm specialty processes, which are based on the 0.35 µm CMOS process transferred from TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company), a total of 15 runs are offered in 2012: austriamicrosystems’ 0.35 µm High-Voltage CMOS process family with a 20 V CMOS option — which is ideally suited for power management products and display drivers, a 50 V CMOS process — which has been optimized for automotive and industrial applications, and a 120 V module — which meets the requirements of sensor and sensor interface chips in high-voltage applications. The advanced High-Voltage CMOS process with Embedded Flash functionality adds to austriamicrosystems’ MPW service portfolio. The CMOS compatible 0.35 µm Silicon-Germanium BiCMOS technology (S35) enables RF circuit designs with an operating frequency of up to 7 GHz combined with high-density digital parts on one single ASIC.
Overall austriamicrosystems will offer almost 150 MPW start dates in 2012, enabled by long lasting cooperation with organizations such as CMP-TIMA, Europractice, Fraunhofer IIS and Mosis. Japanese customers may now participate via our new MPW program partner Toppan Technical Design Center Co., Ltd (TDC). Located in Tokyo, TDC is acting as a local foundry service provider for austriamicrosystems and will provide Japanese foundry customers with direct access to MPW service. The complete schedule for 2012 has now been released and detailed start dates per process are available on the web at https://asic.austriamicrosystems.com/MPW.
To take advantage of the MPW service, austriamicrosystems’ foundry customers deliver their completed GDSII-data at specific dates and receive untested packaged samples or dies within a short lead-time of typically 8 weeks for CMOS and 10 weeks for 0.35 µm High-Voltage CMOS, SiGe-BiCMOS and Embedded Flash processes. All 0.35 µm MPW runs will be manufactured at austriamicrosystems’ state-of-the-art 8 inch wafer fab in Austria.
All process technologies are supported by the HIT-Kit, the austriamicrosystems industry benchmark process design kit based on Cadence, Mentor Graphics or Agilent ADS design environments. The HIT-Kit comes complete with fully silicon-qualified standard cells, periphery cells and general purpose analog cells such as comparators, operational amplifiers, low power A/D and D/A converters. Custom analog and RF devices, physical verification rule sets for Assura and Calibre as well as excellently characterized circuit simulation models enable rapid design starts of complex high performance mixed-signal ICs. In addition to standard prototype services, austriamicrosystems also offers analog IP blocks, a memory (RAM/ROM) generation service and packaging services in ceramic or plastic.
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