AWR And Global Communication Semiconductors Announce Support for InP Foundry Process; Microwave Office 2002 EDA Design Suite to Provide Advanced Libraries for MMIC Designers.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers GaAs IC Technology Exhibition MONTEREY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2002 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)), 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. ) tools, and Global Communication Semiconductors, Inc. (GCS GCS Glasgow Coma Scale GCS Guilford County Schools (North Carolina) GCS Ground Control Station GCS Grand Central Station GCS Ground Control System GCS Ground Combat Systems GCS Group Communication Systems ), a pure-play compound semiconductor wafer foundry, today announced plans to provide 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) ) library support for GCS's indium phosphide (InP) foundry process. The PDKs will provide 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. ) designers, using AWR's Microwave Office(TM) 2002 software, with an advanced circuit simulation and layout environment for designing with GCS's high-performance process. GCS provides InP foundry services for a variety of very high-frequency wireless, telecommunications, and fiber optic communications systems. "AWR has been a valuable partner to GCS for a number of years," said Dr. Owen Wu, founder and chief strategy officer of GCS. "By working together, to integrate InP process technology into the Microwave Office design flow, we provide our joint customers a tremendous competitive advantage." "GCS has been developing compelling semiconductor technology and InP process is of great interest to our customers," said James Spoto, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president of AWR. "We are very pleased to be working with a leading-edge foundry, such as GCS, to provide an integration that streamlines the MMIC design process by improving simulation accuracy and reducing development time." The PDKs will include validated electrical models and parameterized layout cells that have been tested and validated against GCS design rules. "First pass success is critical, even more so with higher-performance processes, such as InP," continued Wu. "By teaming with AWR, we are addressing our customers' shrinking time-to-market windows with integrated libraries that minimize design iteration." Price and Availability The GCS PDKs for Microwave Office 2002 software will be available Q4 and will be free of charge to AWR customers with the complete Microwave Office 2002 design suite. For more information about GCS foundry products contact GCS at 310/530-5890 or visit the GCS website at www.gcsincorp.com. 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 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 around the world. For more information about the company and its products, please visit www.mwoffice.com or call 310/726-3000. About Global Communication Semiconductors Global Communication Semiconductors Inc., based in Torrance, California, an 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. 9002 certified company, provides compound semiconductor foundry services to the wireless telecommunication and high-speed networking industries. GCS currently offers foundry service for both InGaP and InP HBT HBT Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor HBT HyCult Biotechnology (Uden, The Netherlands) HBT Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (interferometer) HBT Herring Bone Twill HBT Heflex Bioengineering Test processes and provides optoelectronic foundry services for PIN diodes used in the fiber optic communication market. Additional information may be found at www.gcsincorp.com. AWR, the AWR logo, and Microwave Office are trademarks of Applied Wave Research, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective holders. |
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