austriamicrosystems Offers Additional 20V Devices for its Advanced 0.35Um High-Voltage CMOS Process.The 0.35um High-Voltage 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. process H35 fully supports supply voltages from 3.3V to 120V on a single chip UNTERPREMSTAETTEN, Austria -- austriamicrosystems' (SWX SWX Swiss Exchange (trademark of SWX Swiss Exchange) SWX SolidWorks (3D solid modeling CAD software) SWX Splitter / Wave Division Multiplexer :AMS AMS - Andrew Message System ) Full Service Foundry business unit announced today at the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA FSA Financial Services Authority FSA Food Standards Agency (UK) FSA Farm Service Agency (USDA) FSA Financial Services Agency (Japan) ) Supplier Expo in Santa Clara the offering of its leading edge 0.35um High-Voltage CMOS technology H35 with an additional set of 20V NMOS (N-Channel MOS) Pronounced "n-moss." A type of microelectronic circuit used for logic and memory chips. NMOS transistors are faster than their PMOS counterpart and more of them can be put on a single chip. It is also used in CMOS design. See MOSFET. and PMOS (Positive channel MOS) Pronounced "p-moss." A type of microelectronic circuit in which the base material is positively charged. PMOS transistors were used in the first microprocessors and are still used in CMOS. devices. The new extension allows the integration of 3.3V, 5V, 20V, 50V and 120V devices on a single chip without any process changes. The new thin-, mid- and thick oxide NMOS and PMOS devices with optimized area and very low Ron resistance as well as a new Metal-Insulator-Metal capacitor (MIMCAP) make the 20V option a competitive solution for fabless design houses and IDMs developing power management products and display drivers for battery powered applications. austriamicrosystems' 0.35um HV-CMOS technology is the first purely CMOS based High-Voltage process that matches BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) The storage of numbers in which each decimal digit is converted into binary and is stored in a single character or byte. For example, a 12-digit number would take 12 bytes. See binary numbers. performance and chip sizes at much lower process complexity. It is based on the 0.35um CMOS process transferred from TSMC TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation TSMC Traffic Systems Management Center TSMC Toll Station Management Controller TSMC Transportation Supply Maintenance Command TSMC Technical Services Manager Code . H35 offers fully scalable High-Voltage NMOS and PMOS devices, floating logic libraries as well as a best-in-class power-on resistance. For its fully automotive and medical qualified H35 process, austriamicrosystems delivers its industry benchmark design environment ("HIT-Kit"), which comes complete with IO libraries, special utilities optimized for High-Voltage CMOS product design and excellent characterized circuit simulation models. "The extension of our 0.35um High-Voltage CMOS technology portfolio with this new 20V devices strengthens austriamicrosystems' commitment to provide our customers with best-in-class analog semiconductor process technology, manufacturing and services" says Thomas Riener, General Manager of austriamicrosystems' business unit Full Service Foundry. "Our H35 technology platform now fully supports supply voltages from 3.3V, 5V, 20V, 50V and 120V on a single chip. Lowest process complexity in combination with area and performance optimized devices gives our customers an enormous competitive advantage in developing their products such as power management products and display drivers for battery powered applications." About austriamicrosystems austriamicrosystems' business unit Full Service Foundry has successfully positioned itself in the analog/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 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 SWX Swiss Exchange An all-electronic securities exchange formed from the 1995 merger of exchanges in Geneva, Basel, and Zurich. The exchange offers trading in equity securities, investment funds, exchange-traded funds, bonds, Eurobonds, and options. in Zurich (ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors : AMS). For more information, please visit the web site at www.austriamicrosystems.com. |
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