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News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK | Subject: Austriamicrosystems HIT-Kits
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 May 2003
Kits support 0.35um mixed-signal process
Austriamicrosystems has extended its design environment support based on the Mentor Graphics IC design flow.
Austriamicrosystems has extended its design environment support based on the Mentor Graphics IC design flow This includes high-performance design kits (HIT-Kits) for analogue/mixed-signal (AMS) and radio frequency (RF) designs on Austriamicroysystems' 0.35um CMOS and BiCMOS process technologies
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The HIT-Kit comes complete with custom analogue and RF devices as well as standard cells and I/Os, enabling rapid design starts of complex mixed-signal ICs.
"Through the use of these comprehensive HIT-Kits, which have been optimised and qualified with the tools in the Mentor Graphics IC flow, customers can expect shorter design cycles and confidently plan for first-time silicon success", stated Rainer Holzhaider, Director, Foundry Services, Austriamicrosystems.
"Our dedicated design support services provided by our highly experienced foundry engineering staff is only a phone call away both in Europe and the Americas, which has been one of our key differentiators".
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Austriamicrosystems' 0.35um process nodes are especially attractive for small to mid-size projects - they provide a low barrier to entry in terms of significantly lower mask count and NRE charges without sacrificing on analogue/RF performance.
Douglas Pattullo, Design Support Manager in Austriamicrosystems' North American office added, "Our excellence in analogue device modelling, including advanced statistical techniques such as Monte-Carlo and corner analysis, yields highly accurate Eldo simulation models that eliminate the need to recharacterise silicon.
In turn, customers benefit from dramatic savings on costly respins and rapid turnaround times".
"The Austriamicrosystems HIT-Kits are based on Mentor's tightly integrated RF/mixed-signal IC design tool suite which offers major advantages", said Jue-Hsien Chern, Vice President and General Manager, Deep Submicron Division, Mentor Graphics.
"Designers can set up and control all types of simulations within a consistent user interface, including time-domain and RF simulations with Eldo and Eldo RF, as well as mixed-signal simulations through Advance MS".
The 0.35um AMS and RF HIT-Kits contain a complete set of analogue, RF, standard cell and I/O components necessary to rapidly get designs off the ground using Mentor Graphics tools.
This includes schematic symbols for Design Architect-IC with predefined properties for Eldo and Advance MS simulation, device generators and process definition files that can automate layout entry in IC Station, and "golden foundry" Calibre DRC/LVS rule files.
The Austriamicrosystems HIT-Kit for 0.35um CMOS and RF-CMOS is available now, and the BiCMOS design kit will be ready in June 2003.
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