ams Schedules 2016 Multi-Project Wafer Starts for Analog Foundry Customers
November 11 2015 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Area and performance improved truly scalable High-Voltage
transistors now also available for shuttle participants
The Full Service Foundry division of ams AG (SIX: AMS), a
leading provider of high performance analog ICs and sensors, today
announced its fast and cost-efficient IC prototyping service, known
as Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) or shuttle run, with an updated
schedule for 2016. The prototyping service, which combines several
designs from different customers onto a single wafer, offers
significant cost advantages for foundry customers as the costs for
wafers and masks are shared among a number of different shuttle
participants.
The recently introduced voltage scalable High-Voltage
transistors are now also available for shuttle participants.
Optimized for various drain-source voltage levels (VDS) from 20V to
100V and providing significant lower on-resistance, the truly
scalable transistors result in significant area savings when
compared to a standard transistor. Foundry customers developing
complex High-Voltage analog/mixed-signal applications instantly
benefit from more dies per area.
ams’ best in class MPW service includes the whole range of
0.18μm and 0.35μm specialty processes. In order to provide leading
analog semiconductor process technologies, manufacturing and
services, ams offers four MPW runs in 0.18μm CMOS (C18) process as
well as four MPW runs in its advanced 0.18μm High-Voltage CMOS
(H18) technology supporting 1.8V, 5V, 20V and 50V devices. For its
0.35μm specialty processes a total of 14 runs are offered in 2016.
ams' 0.35μm High-Voltage CMOS process family, optimized for
High-Voltage designs in automotive and industrial applications,
supports 20V, 50V and 120V devices as well as truly voltage
scalable transistors. The advanced High-Voltage CMOS process with
embedded EEPROM functionality as well as the 0.35μm SiGe-BiCMOS
technology S35 are fully compatible to the base CMOS process and
complete ams’ MPW service portfolio.
Overall, ams will offer almost 150 MPW start dates in 2016,
enabled by co-operations with worldwide acting partner
organizations such as CMP, Europractice, Fraunhofer IIS and
Mosis.
Customers located in APAC region may also participate via our
local MPW program partners
Toppan Technical Design Center Co., Ltd (TDC) and MEDs
Technologies.
The complete schedule for 2016 has now been released and
detailed start dates per process are available on the web at
www.ams.com/MPW.
To take advantage of the MPW service, ams’ foundry customers
deliver their completed GDSII-data on specific dates and receive
untested packaged samples or dies within a short lead-time of
typically 8 weeks for CMOS and 12 weeks for High-Voltage CMOS,
SiGe-BiCMOS and Embedded Flash processes.
All process technologies are supported by the well-known hitkit,
ams’ industry benchmark process design kit based on Cadence, Mentor
Graphics or Keysight ADS design environments. The hitkit comes
complete with fully silicon-qualified standard cells, periphery
cells and general purpose analog cells such as comparators,
operational amplifiers, low power A/D and D/A converters. Custom
analog and RF devices, physical verification rule sets for Assura
and Calibre, as well as precisely characterized circuit simulation
models, enable rapid design starts of complex high performance
mixed-signal ICs. In addition to standard prototype services, ams
also offers advanced analog IP blocks, a memory (RAM/ROM)
generation service and packaging services in ceramic or
plastic.
Learn more about the comprehensive service and technology
portfolio of Full Service Foundry at www.ams.com/foundry.
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