Varactor libraries enable faster time to market

March 2008

The MOSVAR varactor model libraries in its 0.13 and 0.18-micron analog-intensive mixed-signal technology platforms target wireless and other communication products. The model improves simulation accuracy while reducing product development time.

The varactor model incorporates recent advances in MOS device physics and modeling and is compatible with the PSP MOSFET model. In addition, it provides MOS varactor specific gate current models and physical geometry and process parameter based parasitic modeling.

Richard Nakajima to manage Jazz Semiconductor's Japan business

3/11/08

Richard Nakajima of RF Design Services company Cubic Micro has been named as Japan country manager for Jazz Semiconductor. Mr. Nakajima will work from Cubic Micro's base in Japan and will provide sales, marketing and business development expertise to the specialist foundry's Japanese operations. 

"Richard Nakajima has an extensive background in foundry services and a record of high achievement," said Chuck Fox, VP of Sales and Marketing for Jazz Semiconductor. "I am confident his leadership and experience will help the sales team address our Japanese customers' needs more effectively, and drive Jazz's next growth phase in Japan's RF, power, and high precision analog markets."

BCD Process Enables 50 Percent Power Die Size Reduction

3/3/08

Jazz Semiconductor has developed enhancements to its advanced Bipolar CMOS DMOS (BCD) process platform including the addition of an ultra low Rdson scalable NLDMOS device enables up to a 50 percent shrink in die size in most power devices. The 0.18 µm BCD process adds the combination of high density 1.8-V digital CMOS with the higher voltage drivers required for highly integrated Power SOC designs. The high-voltage BCD process is available in scales from 0.5µ to 0.18µ with features including VIA stacking, thick top power metal (3 µm) for improved current-carrying capacity, ESD protection circuits, and triple well isolation.

Jazz Releases Advanced MOS Varactor Model Libraries for Wireless Products

2/11/08

Jazz Semiconductor recently announced the release of MOSVAR model libraries in its 0.13 and 0.18-micron AIMS technology platforms targeting wireless and other communication products. The new model improves simulation accuracy reducing product development time and is integrated as a standard component in Jazz’s Design Enablement platform that also includes the previously announced Jazz Inductor Toolbox (JIT) and X-Sigma statistical simulation suite.

Avnera Utilizes Jazz's 0.18-Micron RFCMOS Process for Wireless Music and Voice Chips

1/23/08

Jazz Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Jazz Technologies, and Avnera, a fabless semiconductor company developing the breakthrough AvneraAudio technology for wired-quality wireless audio, announced that Avnera utilized Jazz's 0.18-micron RFCMOS process (CA18), to develop its semiconductor chip technology for wireless speakers, microphones, headphones and headsets that solves the interference problems that have plagued wireless audio for decades.

The companies noted that Avnera's design approach, coupled with Jazz Semiconductor's process technology, has enabled a low-cost, high-quality and easy-to-use wireless audio solution that delivers CD-quality sound without interference and operates like a plug-and-play unit all on a single piece of silicon.

MEMS the word for timing chips
But MEMS startups must move before quartz-crystal giants roll their own

01/14/08

Today, quartz crystals provide the heartbeat for nearly every electronic system, with annual volumes approaching 10 billion units. Electronic circuitry alone cannot generate the precisely spaced pulses that keep gates in synchronization in digital systems, or the rock-solid oscillations that keep analog frequencies tuned. In this sense, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) represent the final frontier in microminiaturization--downsizing this necessary mechanical reference signal from the millimeter scale of quartz crystals to the nanoscale of integrated circuits. For now, SiTime is (one of the leaders) in microelectromechanical-system chips for timing applications and went into volume production last year with chips that are pin-for-pin compatible with the quartz-crystal oscillators that today sell in the billions of units annually. SiTime is a well-funded fabless CMOS chip maker using foundry Jazz Semiconductor for the SiT8002.

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