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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' 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.
The IHP offers access to four 0.25 µm SiGe:C BiCMOS technologies; SG25H1 - A high-performance technology with npn-HBTs up to fT/fmax= 180/220 GHz; SG25H2 - A complementary high-performance technology with npn-HBTs comparable to SG25H1 and additional pnp-HBTs with = 90/125 GHz; SG25H3 - A technology with a set of npn-HBTs, ranging from a higher RF performance (fT/fmax= 110 GHz/190 GHz) to higher breakdown voltages up to 7 V; SGB25VD - A cost-effective technology with a set of npn-HBTs up to a breakdown voltage of 7 V. A distinctive feature of this technology is additional integrated complementary RF LDMOS devices with breakdown voltages up to 26 V.
TowerJazz Semiconductor is a pure-play semiconductor wafer foundry that serves customers targeting wireless, optical networking, power management, storage, aerospace/defense and other high-performance applications. TowerJazz's rich heritage in mixed-signal/RF processes and circuit design platforms has provided the foundation for its strong position in silicon germanium (SiGe), as well as RF CMOS and bipolar CMOS (BiCMOS) technologies.
LFoundry is the customer-specific manufacturer of choice for analog, mixed-signal and specialized technologies worldwide. LFoundry is the only dedicated foundry to provide "Sicherheit" ... reliability, security and protection for customers, their designs and their IP. Analog and mixed signal designs command product life spans of 10 years or more. These products require a foundry that delivers world-class process technology, unparalleled flexibility, unmatched responsiveness and fast time-to-market. From the heart of Europe to around the world, LFoundry provides capacity, process technology, IP libraries, and most of all process flexibility that rapidly brings your next design to go-to-market production.
Peregrine Semiconductor is a supplier of the industry's most advanced RF and mixed-signal communications ICs which are ideally suited for the wireless infrastructure and mobile wireless; broadband communications; space; defense and avionics markets. Manufactured on the Company’s proprietary UltraCMOS™ technology, the Peregrine product portfolio is poised to meet the demands of a global RF design community – in high-growth applications such as WCDMA and GSM digital cellular, broadband, DTV, DVR, and radiation hard space and defense programs. Peregrine’s products feature monolithic integration and ease-of-development, which are essential to timely and cost-effective application design by our customers.
Silanna designs and manufactures RF/mixed signal microelectronic devices using unique configurations of both CMOS and compound semiconductor process technologies.
The company is working on a range of novel products that take advantage of Silicon-on-Sapphire (SoS) process technology. This platform enables us to create high performance mixed signal and analog devices such as high speed isolators, wide band receivers, low noise amplifiers, and a myriad other products.
Silanna operates a wafer fabrication plant located in Sydney, Australia, that produces SoS devices on 150 mm (6 inch) wafers in Class 1 clean-rooms.
Silanna also offers foundry services and fast, flexible prototyping services to external customers, who wish to take advantage of the benefits of SoS for their own IC designs. AWR PDKs are available for different process variants.
A state-of-the-art technology R&D centre is also incorporated into the Sydney facility. This houses the latest equipment for producing high purity, high uniformity compound semiconductors. A fully equipped analytical lab that includes a range of materials characterisation tools supports the research activities.
Silanna has offices in Brisbane, San Diego and London supporting various business development activities and a number of sales representatives around the world.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
TSMC is a pure-play semiconductor wafer foundry that serves customers targeting wireless, optical networking, power management, storage, aerospace/defense and other high-performance applications. TSMC's rich heritage in mixed-signal/RF processes and circuit design platforms has provided the foundation for its strong position in silicon germanium (SiGe), as well as RF CMOS and bipolar CMOS (BiCMOS) technologies. TSMC's Mixed Signal/RF CMOS processes provide designers with smaller device dimensions, increased performance and lower costs than BiCMOS and gallium arsinide processes.
TSMC provides comprehensive design kits for either logic-based or full-featured MS/RF technologies. Plug-in databases and models are ready-to-use, which help significant reductions in design cycle time. These advancements lead to accurate performance prediction and higher levels of integration for TSMC customers. TSMC is the first pure-play foundry to offer silicon germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS technology, which is expected to be in high demand for high performance and low power communications applications.
Combining the integration and cost benefits of standard CMOS with the speed of more esoteric and expensive technologies, such as Gallium Arsenide (GaAs), Silicon Germanium is ideally suited for communications and wireless/optical networking designs. TSMC has also collaborated with several EDA providers including AWR to create complete design kits including technology files and Process Design Kits (PDK). The PDK includes schematic symbols, simulation models, a layout generator, and tech files. With the PDK, designers can efficiently reduce their development time of foundation libraries.
