austriamicrosystems’ business unit Full Service Foundry provides a cost-efficient and speedy 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 advanced 0.35µm High-Voltage CMOS, High-Voltage CMOS embedded Flash and SiGe-BiCMOS processes, austriamicrosystems offers a cost-efficient and fast prototyping service on its specialty processes to foundry customers. Long lasting co-operations with organizations like CMP-TIMA, Europractice, Fraunhofer IIS and MOSIS enable austriamicrosystems to offer more than 150 MPW start dates in 2007. The detailed start dates per process are available on the web at http://asic.austriamicrosystems.com/cot
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 processes and 10 weeks for High-Voltage CMOS, SiGe-BiCMOS and embedded Flash 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 transferred 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 High-Voltage CMOS process with embedded Flash functionality completes austriamicrosystems’ MPW service.
All technologies are supported by the well-known HIT-Kit, an advanced 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 excellent characterized circuit simulation models, enable rapid design starts of complex high performance mixed-signal ICs. 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, 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 25 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 1,000 employees, austriamicrosystems focuses on the areas of power management, sensors & sensor interfaces, portable audio and car access in its markets Communications, Industry & Medical and Automotive, complemented by its Full Service Foundry activities. austriamicrosystems is listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange in Zurich (ticker symbol: AMS). |
