Process Design Kit supports RF design environment.
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Process Design Kit contains full frequency range for 0.18 micron mixed-signal/RF CMOS processes, from dc through baseband and into RF range. Broad frequency range allows designers to simulate entire system-on-chip design, ensuring correct operation at all frequencies. With kit, all elements available for RF designers are modeled, including varactors, high-Q inductors integrated with Al and Cu, precision resistors, and high-density capacitors.
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MagnaChip Semiconductor Extends its Leadership in Providing Specialty Foundry Services for RF Applications
New Design Kit Supports Agilent Technologies' RF Design Environment for its 0.18-Micron Mixed-Signal/RF CMOS Process
CHEONGJU, Korea, Jan. 10 - MagnaChip Semiconductor today announced a new Process Design Kit (PDK) supporting Agilent's (NYSE: A - News) RF Design Environment (RFDE) electronic design automation (EDA) software.
MagnaChip's newly designed PDK contains the full frequency range for its 0.18-micron mixed-signal/RF CMOS processes, from DC through baseband and into the RF range. This broad frequency range allows designers to simulate the entire system-on-chip design, ensuring correct operation at all frequencies. At the 0.18-micron node, these frequencies typically range from the audio and video frequencies in the baseband to 5 GHz in the RF band. In the future, designers are expected to attain frequencies of higher than 10 GHz in the 0.13-micron node.
This offering extends MagnaChip's existing PDKs, which support 0.18-micron mixed-signal/RF CMOS processes supporting Cadence Design Systems. With the new PDK supporting RFDE, all of MagnaChip's elements available for RF designers are modeled, including varactors, high-Q inductors integrated with Al and Cu, precision resistors, and high-density capacitors.
MagnaChip's CMOS RF processes are used in a variety of applications and products, including optical networking, wireless LAN, Bluetooth, and other communications applications. MagnaChip's support for Agilent's leading RF/mixed signal simulation environment reflects the strong demand by designers for state-of-the-art design and simulation tools that help speed their products to market.
"RF designers need quality simulation environments in order to validate their efforts after the design is finished," said Channy Lee, Executive Vice President of Products. "By providing quality models for a variety of active and passive elements for RFDE, MagnaChip is able to increase confidence for designers simulating transceivers, mixers, and other critical RF blocks."
"We're very pleased with MagnaChip's decision to support the RF Design Environment for its 0.18-micron mixed-signal/RF CMOS processes," said John Barr, foundry program manager of Agilent's EEsof EDA Division. "This gives our mutual customers access to a comprehensive RFIC design solution that is tightly integrated into the Cadence environment. We know how important it is for our customers to get to market quickly, and we believe that users of this process will save time using this new, integrated design kit together with RFDE."
RFDE-compatible models for MagnaChip's 0.18-micron mixed-signal processes are available from MagnaChip today. Technology files for MagnaChip's advanced 0.13-micron mixed-signal and RF processes are expected to be available in 2005.
About Agilent Technologies' RF Design Environment
Agilent's RFDE is a software design platform for large-scale RF/mixed- signal IC design. It makes important frequency-domain and mixed-domain simulation technologies--optimization and statistical design tools; additional device, system, and behavioral models; and powerful data display and post- processing -- available in the Cadence design environment.
More information about RFDE is available at www.agilent.com/find/eesof.
About MagnaChip Semiconductor
MagnaChip Semiconductor is a leading designer, developer and manufacturer of mixed-signal and digital multimedia semiconductors addressing the convergence of consumer electronics and communications devices. We focus on CMOS image sensors and flat panel display drivers, which are complex, high performance, mixed signal semiconductors that capture images and enable and enhance the features and capabilities of both small and large flat panel displays. Magnachip also provides wafer foundry services utilizing CMOS high voltage, embedded memory, analog and power process technologies for the manufacture of IC's for customer-owned designs. MagnaChip has world-class manufacturing capabilities and an extensive portfolio of more than 12,800 registered and pending patents. As a result, MagnaChip is a valued partner in providing leading technology solutions to its customers worldwide. For more information, visit www.magnachip.com.
