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News Release from: AMI Semiconductor | Subject: I3T80 design kits
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 05 December 2003
Smart power design kits come on CD-ROM
AMI Semiconductor is now able to offer access to its I3T80 high-voltage smart-power technology through CD-ROM based design kits.
AMI Semiconductor (AMIS) is now able to offer access to its I3T80 high-voltage smart-power technology through CD-ROM based design kits This offering complements the already established mixed-signal foundry service program of AMIS
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Working in conjunction with Europractice IC service, AMIS is one of the first companies to offer its customers direct access to 0.35um high-voltage smart-power design and manufacture.
Europractice IC Service, will provide further distribution of design kits, support during development, and production of resultant prototype and small batch quantities, co-ordinated by IMEC, under a new licence agreement with AMIS.
The I3T technology family allows system designers to reduce component count, save space and lower costs by integrating complex digital circuitry, embedded microprocessors and high-voltage functionality into a single IC.
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Suitable for automotive, medical, industrial and other high-voltage designs, the I3T80 technology enables the delivery of 0.35um CMOS "smart power" system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for voltages up to 80V.
Europractice will provide small businesses, startup enterprises, fabless companies and universities, easy, economical access to designing and prototyping with I3T80 technology through distribution and support of design kits and its multiproject wafer (MPW) approach.
MPW significantly reduces costs by combining several designs from different customers on a single wafer.
The fabrication costs of prototypes using this method can be as low as 10% of those for a full wafer run.
Resultant parts - typically 20 pieces - can be delivered for validation either as naked dies, or as encapsulated devices.
Europractice carries out extensive design rule and electrical rule checking of submitted designs to increase the yield of the delivered prototypes.
Commenting on the announcement, Ignace Borde, Director, AMIS Mixed-Signal Foundry Services, Europe, said: "This move makes AMIS the first company to offer 0.35um high voltage technology to third parties through design kits and a supporting prototyping service.
Coupled to this, the AMIS mixed-signal foundry service program supports larger volume manufacture once the design is proven".
He continued: "I3T technology is a key element to enabling efficient and cost effective designs that combine high levels of digital integration with mixed analogue and high-voltage structures.
This announcement means that such technology is more readily available to smaller businesses or those with a fabless business model".
"With the addition of the I3T technology to its portfolio, AMI Semiconductor customers around the world with needs for prototyping and smaller volume now have access to the latest high-voltage technology", said Dr Carl Das, Director of the Europractice service at IMEC.
"In order to give our customers the opportunity to be introduced to I3T80, IMEC is organising a training course on the 11th and 12th of December".
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