Atmel Offers 82-GHz SiGe Process for Foundry.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2000 Atmel Wireless & Microcontrollers, a division of Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ATML ATML Automatic Test Markup Language ATML Automated Test Markup Language ), announced today an upgrade of its high-volume production Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) technology for foundry. The new upgrade SiGe2, provides a higher frequency of up to 82 GHz for communications applications. "After having shipped millions of SiGe products in the first quarters of this year, we have upgraded our process to even faster transistors," said Frank Heinricht, Chief Executive Officer at Atmel Wireless & Microcontrollers. "To strengthen our business in the Communications market and extend it into the transmission and high-speed fiber optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber domain, we will offer this upgrade of our technology for our foundry customers." The new technology SiGe2 therefore offers a transit frequency and a maximum oscillation frequency The Oscillation frequency (fundamental period): to give an example you can think of a grandfather clock. The pole swings beating the second; the time it takes to start from a point and then go back to that point is the oscillation period (as you can see, the grandfather clock has of 82 GHz while featuring a noise figure of 1.5 dB at 5 GHz. The available transistor types can be operated at 2.5 or 4.0 V, and are especially suited for low-voltage and low-power operation. Of course, state-of-the-art passive components like resistors, capacitors and inductors are available. Atmel Wireless & Microcontrollers offers this process for foundry to its customers. A Design Manual as well as a Cadence Design Kit are available and prototype runs can be started now. For prototyping, customers can choose between a full engineering run or a die on multi-project-wafers, both to be delivered after 9 weeks. SiGe, the latest semiconductor process for RF applications, provides an ideal platform for tomorrow's solutions for the enormously expanding telecommunications market. This technology offers benefits not attainable by conventional Silicon bipolar technologies; it enables lower noise, higher switching speed and lower power consumption. Atmel Wireless & Microcontrollers is a market leader in SiGe with long-standing RF design expertise; the current SiGe product portfolio includes a broad range of power amplifiers and front ends for mobile communication systems. The company operates a 6-inch SiGe wafer fabrication Wafer Fabrication is a procedure composed of many repeated sequential processes to produce complete electrical or photonic circuits. Examples include production of radio frequency (RF) amplifiers, LEDs, optical computer components, and CPUs for computers. facility with foundry services in Heilbronn, Germany. About Atmel Founded in 1984, Atmel Corporation is headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. with manufacturing facilities in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Europe. Atmel designs, manufactures and markets, worldwide advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and RF semiconductors. Atmel is also a leading provider of system-level integration semiconductor solutions using advanced CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. , BiCMOS, bipolar, high-voltage BCDMOS and SiGe process technologies. Note to Editors: Atmel, the Atmel logo and combinations thereof and others contained herein, are trademarks of Atmel Corporation. Terms and product names in this document may be the trademarks of others. Information Atmel Wireless & Microcontrollers product information may be retrieved at www.atmel-wm.com. |
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