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News Release from: Ansoft Europe | Subject: TriQuint PDK
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 April 2004
Design kit supports triple-metal GaAs
process
A new process design kit (PDK) supports TriQuint's 0.6-micron MESFET three-metal-interconnect gallium arsenide (GaAs) IC process, TQTRx, for use with Ansoft Designer v2.
A new process design kit (PDK) supports TriQuint's 0.6-micron MESFET three-metal-interconnect gallium arsenide (GaAs) IC process, TQTRx, for use with Ansoft Designer v2 This new kit provides monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) designers with an electronic design automation (EDA) flow that maximises performance and yield while reducing design uncertainty prior to fabrication
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Our customers are becoming increasingly aware of the value of performing electromagnetic simulation as part of their design-verification procedures", said Paul Litzenberg, TriQuint's Foundry Applications Engineering Manager.
"Ansoft has consistently demonstrated excellent performance in this area, and we are excited to offer design kits that take advantage of this level of expertise".
The new PDK includes active and passive electrical models and parameterised layout cells that have been tested and validated against TriQuint's layout design rules.
The design kit provides engineers using Ansoft Designer with direct access to one of TriQuint's highest-volume processes, supporting radio frequency (RF) applications up to Ku-band, and mixed-mode applications up to LSI complexity.
The TQTRx is based on advanced, 0.6-micron enhancement/depletion mode MESFET technology with an integrated power MESFET.
Ansoft Designer combines high-frequency circuit, system, and 3D planar electromagnetic simulation to take full advantage of the high circuit density offered by the TQTRx process.
The new PDK leverages Ansoft Designer' s unique Solver on Demand technology with a dynamic link to HFSS.
This is the first commercially available process design kit to combine advanced circuit simulation and layout with 3D full-wave design verification.
The libraries for Ansoft Designer include TriQuint's TOM3 fully scalable model.
All component models also include a parameterised layout cell for full physical representation.
Ansoft provides the simulation models, customised symbols, layout P-cells and documentation.
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