AWR/WIN PKD SUPPORTS POWER PHEMT GAAS FOUNDRY PROCESS.Applied Wave Research, Inc. (AWR AWR Automatic Workload Repository (Oracle database) AWR Applied Wave Research (El Segundo, CA) AWR Adventist World Radio AWR Advanced Warranty Replacement AWR American Warmblood Registry (TM)) and WIN Semiconductors Corporation (WIN) have introduced a process design kit (PDK PDK Phi Delta Kappa (professional organization for teachers) PDK Portal Development Kit (SAP Enterprise Portal) PDK Peachtree-Dekalb Airport (Atlanta, GA, USA) ) supporting WIN's power pseudomorphic High Electron Mobility Transistor (pHEMT) gallium arsenide (GaAs) foundry process. The PDK provides monolithic microwave integrated circuit MMICs, or Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits, are a type of integrated circuit (IC) devices that operate at microwave frequencies (1 GHz to 300 GHz). They typically perform functions such as microwave mixing, power amplification, low noise amplification, and high (MMIC (Monolithic Microwave IC) An integrated circuit used in high-frequency applications such as mobile phones. Also known as "monolithic microwave/millimeter-wave IC," MMICs combine transistors and passive devices (resistors, capacitors, etc. ) engineers using AWR's Microwave Office(TM) 2002 design software, with an advanced circuit simulation and layout environment for designing with WIN's state-of-the-art 0.15-micron process. Applications for these designs range from broadband communication, optical fiber communications, automobile radar, and homeland security systems. WIN Semiconductors is a pure-play and dedicated GaAs radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC RFIC Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit RFIC Radio Frequency Interface Chip ) and MMIC foundry service provider. "In today's fierce competitive market, time-to- market is very critical for our customers," said DP Mathes, vice president of WIN sales and marketing. "AWR's Alliance Program provides the venue for a sustained effort to dramatically accelerate time-to-market and reduce product development costs for our customers. The new kit will greatly enhance product design success from our existing customers and accelerate WIN's design capture rate." The PDK offers automatic layout with design rule check, pop-up help tips, and scalable models for pHEMT cells and passive components fabricated with the advanced wafer process at WIN. A menu driven cell library is incorporated with transistor models covering a wide range of gate periphery. A complex scaling rule embedded in the model fosters high accuracy confirmed through power load/pull measurement up to millimeter-wave frequencies. The ease of use and maintenance greatly saves the RF and MMIC engineers' time and money over previous methods of administering raw foundry standard cell models. WIN is extending this PDK development to other production processes that include the HBT HBT Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor HBT HyCult Biotechnology (Uden, The Netherlands) HBT Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (interferometer) HBT Herring Bone Twill HBT Heflex Bioengineering Test , the 0.5 um pHEMT, the 0.5 um pHEMT Switch, the 0.5 um E-mode pHEMT, and the 0.15um MHEMT MHEMT Metamorphic High Electron Mobility Transistor . AWR is a leading supplier of high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ) solutions for the design of wireless and wire-line applications. "We are very pleased to be working with a leading-edge foundry such as WIN," said Ron Patston, vice president of sales at AWR. "By working together we are providing our joint customers with an unparalleled design process that will significantly improve productivity through increased accuracy and integration." Price and Availability The PDKs and associated library cells and models are free of charge to WIN's foundry and AWR's Microwave Office design suite users. They can be downloaded at http://www.winfoundry.com. About WIN Semiconductors Corporation WIN Semiconductors Corporation is a leading pure-play and dedicated GaAs RFIC/MMIC foundry service provider with an advanced 6-inch wafer fab. The facility is ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001/QS9000/ISO14001/OHSAS18001 certified. WIN offers a wide spectrum of technologies for applications from 800 MHz to 100 GHz, including HBT, pHEMT, Switch and MHEMT. WIN Semiconductors has been established for more than two years with a proven track record of producing high-performance RFICs and MMICs for its customers in various industries from cellular handsets and wireless LANs to satellite communications and automotive radar MMICs. WIN customers include major IDM (1) See identity management. (2) (Integrated Device Manufacturer) A company that performs every step of the chip-making process, including design, manufacture, test and packaging. Examples of IDMs are Intel, AMD, Motorola, IBM, TI and Lucent. , fabless design and module/system companies. WIN is headquartered at No. 69, Technology 7th Road, Hwaya Technology Park, Kuei Shan Hsiang, Tao Yuan Shien, Taiwan, Republic of China. Visit WIN website http://www.winfoundry.com for more information. About Applied Wave Research, Inc. Applied Wave Research was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in El Segundo, California
El Segundo is a city in Los Angeles County, California on the Santa Monica Bay, incorporated on January 18, 1917. The population was 16,033 at the 2000 census. . The company is a supplier of high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) products for the design of wireless telecommunications equipment, semiconductors, high-speed computers, networking systems, and a variety of other electronics-based products. AWR has sales offices, training centers, and distributors worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.mwoffice.com or call 310/726-3000. |
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