Jazz Semiconductor, an independent semiconductor wafer foundry for specialty CMOS process technologies optimized for integrated analog and mixed-signal chips, has announced the availability of a complete design platform in concert with its new 200 GHz silicon germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS technology, the SBC18H2 process.

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Jazz supports highly integrated RF CMOS and SiGe BiCMOS designs on its existing SBC18 platform and is now extending its capability with SBC18H2. The highly developed design environment supports fully scalable device models for SiGe bipolar and RF CMOS, statistical simulation with mismatch capabilities, an integrated inductor design toolbox, and other features that enhance predictability for first time manufacturing success. Jazz's SBC18H2 is a continuation of the company's platform approach to supporting RF CMOS and SiGe BiCMOS designs for a broad range of applications on a single, highly integrated platform.

Leading customers and university researchers working with Jazz have validated the key circuit building blocks for next-generation products, including 60 GHz wireless data and collision avoidance radar, and have demonstrated the growing role of Jazz's SiGe BiCMOS technology in the integration of high-performance analog functions. With switching speeds of 200 GHz Ft and Fmax, Jazz's SBC18H2 process addresses performance requirements for the most demanding wireless and physical layer fiber network ICs, as well as enabling ultra-low power circuits for general wireless applications.

Analog functionality continues to drive market requirements as radio frequency, multimedia and other such capabilities become more integral to electronics.

"Our goal is to provide advanced process technology that offers the ability to integrate more functions on a single die," said Paul Kempf, Jazz Semiconductor CTO and CMO. "Modular mixed-signal and RF processes give engineers the opportunity to design more highly integrated products to keep pace with the continuing convergence trend of packing more capability into smaller devices."

According to Len Jelinek, principle analyst with iSuppli Corporation, "Jazz Semiconductor's use of a modular approach to process technology, supported by a flexible design platform, will enable the development of advanced integrated analog ICs that provide different levels of process features and are highly competitive in their market segments."