| austriamicrosystems’
pioneered the Multi Project Wafer service concept and
celebrates the 20 years of offering a cost-efficient
and fast ASIC prototyping service by combining several
designs from different customers onto one wafer. This
successful approach, known as Multi-Project Wafer (MPW)
or shuttle run, allows to share the costs for wafer
and masks among a number of different customers.
Focused on its 0.35µm High-Voltage CMOS, SiGe-BiCMOS
and embedded EEPROM processes, austriamicrosystems
offers a cost-efficient and fast prototyping service
on advanced processes to its foundry customers. Long
lasting co-operations with organizations like CMP-TIMA,
Europractice, Fraunhofer IIS and MOSIS enables austriamicrosystems
to offer more than 150 MPW start dates in 2006. The
detailed start dates per process are available on the
web at http://asic.austriamicrosystems.com/MPW
austriamicrosystems’
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
processes and 10 weeks for High-Voltage CMOS, SiGe-BiCMOS
and EEPROM processes. All MPW-Runs will be produced
at austriamicrosystems’
state-of-the-art 8 inch wafer fab at its headquarters
in Austria.
austriamicrosystems’
MPW service includes the whole range of processes in
0.35µm geometry which are based on the 0.35µm
CMOS process licensed from TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor
Manufacturing Company). The CMOS compatible 0.35µm
Silicon-Germanium BiCMOS technology enables designs
of RF circuits with an operating frequency of up to
10 GHz combined with high-density digital parts on one
single ASIC. The 0.35µm High-Voltage CMOS process
family with a 20V CMOS option, ideally suited for power
management products and display drivers, and a 50V CMOS
process, optimized for automotive and industrial applications
serve customers demand on high-voltage applications
and products. The advanced CMOS options for opto-electronic
applications and embedded EEPROM functionality complete
austriamicrosystems’
MPW service.
All technologies are supported by the well-known HIT-Kit,
an advanced design-kit based on Cadence, Mentor Graphics
or Agilent ADS design environments. These design kits
include high precision simulation models, libraries
of transistors and passive devices, logic gates, peripheral
cells and simulation models for several packages.
In addition to standard prototype services austriamicrosystems
is offering analog IP blocks, memory (RAM/ROM) generation
service and packaging services in ceramic or plastic.
About austriamicrosystems
austriamicrosystems’
business unit Full Service Foundry has successfully
positioned itself in the mixed-signal foundry market
offering well-established RF CMOS, High-Voltage CMOS,
BiCMOS and SiGe-BiCMOS processes. With superior support
during the design phase, with high-end tools and experienced
engineers, austriamicrosystems
succeeds to be an attractive analog/mixed-signal foundry
partner especially for fabless design houses.
austriamicrosystems
is a leading designer and manufacturer of high performance
analog ICs, combining more than 20 years of analog design
capabilities and system know-how with its own state-of-the-art
manufacturing and test facilities. austriamicrosystems
leverages its expertise in low power and high accuracy
to provide industry-leading customized and standard
analog products. Operating worldwide with more than
800 employees, austriamicrosystems
focuses on the areas of power management, sensors &
sensor interfaces, portable audio and car access through
its business units Communications, Industry & Medical,
Automotive and Full Service Foundry. austriamicrosystems
is listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange in Zurich (ticker
symbol: AMS). |
