AWR and OMMIC Announce Support FOR GaAs Foundry Process; Microwave Office 2002 EDA Software to Provide Advanced MMIC Libraries.Business Editors, Technology Writers European Microwave Conference MILAN Milan, prince and king of Serbia Milan (Milan Obrenović) (mĭl`än ōbrĕ`nəvĭch), 1854–1901, prince (1868–82) and king (1882–89) of Serbia; grandnephew of Miloš Obrenović. , Italy--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 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 ), 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 OMMIC OMMIC Ordnance, Maintenance, Management Information Center , formerly Philips Microwave Limeil (PML PML - Parallel ML. ["Synchronous Operations as First-Class Values", J.H. Reppy <jhr@research.att.com>, Proc SIGPLAN 88 Conf Prog Lang Design and Impl, June 1988, pp. 250-259]. ), 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 OMMIC's gallium arsenide (GaAs) foundry process. 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 will use the libraries, within AWR's Microwave Office(TM) 2002 environment, to speed the design of high-end wireless and fiber optic infrastructures while helping to ensure electrical specifications are met. OMMIC is a member of the Philips group of companies and is working on the leading-edge research, design, and manufacture of GaAs semiconductor devices using integrated circuit (IC) and epitaxy technologies. "OMMIC is committed to supporting state-of-the-art MMIC design tools and, over the past four years, AWR has clearly established itself as a leader within the GaAs MMIC market," said Remy Leblanc, OMMIC foundry manager. "By working with AWR to integrate GaAs process technology into the Microwave Office design flow, we can offer MMIC designers a premier EDA tool for OMMIC technology-based product development." "We have a rapidly increasing number of customers requesting support for the OMMIC GaAs foundry processes," said Ted Miracco, AWR(TM) executive vice president. "We are therefore very pleased to be working with the OMMIC team in Paris to bring this technology to our joint customers. This collaboration supports our vision for streamlining the MMIC design process with improved productivity through increased accuracy and integration." The PDKs will include validated electrical models and parameterized layout cells that have been tested and validated against OMMIC's design rules. "The quality of the EDA package, such as AWR's Microwave Office design suite, and the quality of the OMMIC developed libraries, becomes increasingly more important with the introduction of higher-performance processes and the need for a "right-first-time" design," continued Leblanc. OMMIC has a long history of working as an open foundry. The company's first external customers were using the foundry service in 1986. Since then, OMMIC has introduced Psuedomorphic High Electron Mobility Transistor (PHEMT See FET. ) technologies and now, advanced high indium content, indium phosphide (InP)-like Metamorphic High Electron Mobility Transistor (MHEMT MHEMT Metamorphic High Electron Mobility Transistor ), while gate lengths have been reduced from 0.7 micron to 0.13 micron in production, with research at 0.07 micron. Access to these technologies is now available through complete mask sets or shared runs. Price and Availability The OMMIC 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 OMMIC foundry products contact OMMIC at +33 (0)1 45 10 67 31 or visit the OMMIC website at www.ommic.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 OMMIC OMMIC, formerly known as Philips Microwave Limeil (PML), was founded in January 2000 and is a wholly owned Philips company with headquarters in Limeil-Brevannes, on the outskirts of Paris. The company has a long history of innovation and over 30 years of expertise in GaAs and InP technologies. OMMIC's principal activities are focused on innovative III-V integrated circuits and large volume production of 4" and 6" epitaxial material. For more information on the company and its products, please visit www.ommic.com or call +33 (0) 1 45 10 67 31. 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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