Company: Rising Micro Electronics
Guangzhou, China
www.rising-ic.com

Jazz Process Chosen: SBC18 (0.18µm SiGe BiCMOS)

Product: RF Transceiver Chipset

Description: Rising's RF transceiver chipset is designed for 3G WCDMA wireless handsets.

Target: With the WCDMA chipset, Rising is one of the first design companies in China to demonstrate the capability of carrying out the complicated R&D work required for high-end 3G RF transceiver chip designs, closing the gap in high-end communication chip design between China and other countries.

"Jazz Semiconductor's 0.18µm SiGe BiCMOS technology offers many advantages including accurate modeling, low cost, and good technical support. The Jazz process design kit (PDK) has extensive models covering analog, mixed signal and digital components to optimize our product designs. Using Jazz allowed us to accelerate our time to market and improves the overall quality of our design. We are very satisfied with Jazz's 0.18µm SiGe BiCMOS technology and plan to continue our partnership to design other subsequent projects in other target markets, including TD-SCDMA, multiband GSM, 802.1x wireless broadband and high speed optical communications."
-- Zheng Weiguo, Chief Engineer, Rising