austriamicrosystems (SWX: AMS), Full Service Foundry business unit today announced an update of its analog/mixed-signal high performance technology design kit ("HIT-Kit") based on Mentor Graphics® IC Flow 2005.1 for its advanced 0.35µm High-Voltage CMOS technology. The new design environment includes the latest enhancements of austriamicrosystems 0.35µm High-Voltage CMOS process technology H35.

The new austriamicrosystems HIT-Kit v3.71 contains improved high-voltage devices, physical verification rule sets for Calibre® DRC/LVS, device model files for Calibre® xRC as well as the digital and analog periphery libraries with improved ESD protection. A set of very accurate circuit simulation models which now consider parasitic bipolars on high-voltage devices, layout generators and special layout verification utilities like leakage check, complete the easy to use HIT-Kit that enables foundry customers to create robust analog/high-voltage product designs.

“Using our new High-Voltage CMOS HIT-Kit with its updated devices and libraries enables foundry customers to complete their high-voltage product designs in Mentor’s state-of-the-art design environment”, comments Thomas Riener, Marketing Director of austriamicrosystems’ Full Service Foundry business unit. “In combination with the performance improvements we achieved with our advanced High-Voltage CMOS technology we offer a competitive solution enabling our customers to create first time right designs and reduce time-to-market.”

Design Kit Details
The new Mentor HIT-Kit v3.71 contains a complete set of 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 necessary to rapidly get designs off the ground using Mentor Graphics new IC Flow environment based on ICstudio™. Custom analog and high voltage devices, physical verification rule sets for Calibre® DRC/LVS and for Calibre® xRC parasitic layout extraction, as well as excellent characterized circuit simulation models enable rapid design starts of complex high performance mixed-signal ICs.

All I/O structures within the design kit are silicon-validated and meet the military ESD and JEDEC latch-up standards with I/O pads designed to surpass 4kV HBM and 250mA latch-up immunity. In C35 technology the total I/O libraries consist of more than 1800 cells supporting 3.3V and 3.3V/5V designs. The specialty High-Voltage CMOS process H35 with its floating libraries even includes more than 2400 core and periphery cells.
More details about the Mentor-based HIT-Kit can be found at http://www.mentor.com/products/ic_nanometer_design/foundries/ams_kits.cfm
and at
asic.austriamicrosystems.com/hitkit/index.html

About austriamicrosystems
austriamicrosystems’ business unit Full Service Foundry has successfully positioned itself in the analog/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 foundry partner especially for fabless design houses.