CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
26 July 2004
Product News
AWR To Develop Design Platform for TSMC Silicon Germanium Process
Applied Wave Research, Inc. (AWRT) ( http://www.mwoffice.com ) announced a corporate agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) ( http://www.tsmc.com ) to jointly develop and deliver a design platform for TSMC's 0.35-micron silicon germanium (SiGe) process. The platform will include AWR's Analog OfficeT RFIC design software, a TSMC 0.35-micron SiGe process design kit (PDK) based on open software standards, and an end-user full product support package.
Under the agreement, TSMC and AWR will develop a new set of process-calibrated and process-tuned device models for the TSMC 0.35-micron SiGe process. The model set will include the most advanced and accurate HICUM bipolar transistor models as well as a comprehensive set of accurately tuned spiral inductor models. XMOD Technologies, http://www.xmodtech.com , a company specializing in RF device modeling, will provide the geometry scalable HICUM model libraries. The new models will enable analog and RFIC designers to develop next-generation, high-performance wireless ICs quickly and easily, leveraging the full capability of the advanced SiGe process, and with full confidence that the circuits will perform as designed in silicon. The newly developed models will be packaged as part of a complete PDK based on the AWR unified data model and other open software platforms.
The Analog Office solution is the first complete IC design system in over a decade that is specifically architected and optimized from the ground up for analog and RFIC designs. The 2004 version has been enhanced to provide the industry's most open, unified design environment, offering full interaction with a comprehensive and powerful set of integrated tools. The toolset spans the entire IC design flow, from system-level to circuit-level design and verification, for complete top-to-bottom and front-to-back analog and RFIC design.
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