| 5.8GHz RFIC Built in Jazz Semiconductor's 0.35 Micron SiGe BiCMOS
Designed Entirely Within Analog Office Design Environment EL SEGUNDO, Calif.
— November 21, 2005 — Applied Wave Research, Inc. (AWR?), today announced that
the company's Analog Office? design suite, a software product developed specifically
for analog and radio-frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) design, has recently
been used by a major Japanese electronics manufacturer to successfully design
a 5.8GHz RFIC in an advanced silicon germanium (SiGe) bipolar complimentary metal
oxide semiconductor (BiCMOS) process from Jazz Semiconductor. The RF receiver
is the first complete silicon-based RFIC successfully designed and taped out using
the entire Analog Office design flow from schematic capture, through simulation,
analysis, layout, extraction and complete design rule check (DRC), and layout
versus schematic (LVS) verification. The design commenced in May 2005 and was
taped out to Jazz Semiconductor's Newport Beach wafer foundry in August 2005.
The resulting silicon, delivered and tested in October 2005, is fully-functional
and meets the customer's specifications. "This first-time-success
in a complex RFIC at 5.8GHz validates the use of AWR's streamlined design flow
along with Jazz Semiconductor's silicon-accurate RF models for the fast realization
of complex RF products," said Marco Racanelli, vice president of engineering
at Jazz Semiconductor. "Our customer indicated that the Analog Office RFIC
design system, with its unified data model and powerful design environment, enabled
its engineers to design the entire chip in one integrated platform and helped
them achieve first-pass success in silicon. Jazz is pleased to continue working
with AWR in support of our mutual customers in order to enable rapid time-to-market
for the introduction of future innovative products." "We are
extremely pleased that the Analog Office product fully met the customer's expectations,
streamlined the silicon design process, and helped the company deliver fully-functional
silicon in such record time," said James Spoto, AWR president and CEO. "We
are looking forward to working with this customer and other mutual Jazz customers
on future silicon RFIC designs." |
