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JAZZ SEMICONDUCTOR ANNOUNCES VOLUME PRODUCTION FOR POWER CMOS
PROCESSES
Growing Power Management Market Forces Designers to Find
Foundry Processes Tailored for System Power Management and Power
Control
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., March 15, 2006
-- Jazz Semiconductor, an independent wafer foundry focused primarily
on specialty CMOS process technologies, today announced it is shipping
volume production of its CP05 technology targeted at power control
and power management markets. Jazz is addressing the growing power
management sector with CP05 by combining a 0.5µm front-end
with a 0.25µm back-end metallization to achieve very low on-resistance
devices in a low-cost, power management platform for wireless and
consumer applications.
As the number of power supplies in a system increases (i.e., a
cellular phone includes a camera, mobile tuner, wireless LAN and
various audio/video inputs and outputs), stringent requirements
are placed on system power management, which force designers to
find new and creative ways to control power in the system and optimize
battery life by minimizing the current drain. Jazz is addressing
these needs by offering a power CMOS process optimized to allow
circuit designers to overcome the limitation of generic CMOS offerings.
The Jazz CP05 platform is a three metal process, with a 3µm
thick power metal and 1 or 2fF MIM caps. It offers 5V FETS with
low on-resistance of 4.1 mohm-mm2 and 10.3 mohm-mm2 for N- and P-channel
devices, respectively, to achieve high power transistors occupying
very small die sizes for use in low-dropout regulators, amplifiers,
drivers and other power management functions.
In addition, by leveraging a cost-effective, mainstream CMOS back-end
in 0.25µm, designers can take advantage of more aggressive
digital integration, digital content and more dense routing capability
of the gates (more gates per unit area) than a standard 0.5µm
CMOS offering.
"The CP05 process meets the low Rdson per unit area requirement
of many power applications and has already hit the market in volume
production," said Marco Racanelli, vice president of technology
and engineering, Jazz Semiconductor. "The CP05 offering complements
our 0.5µm BCD, 0.35µm BCD, and 0.18/0.25µm HVCMOS
process offerings which together provide a complete suite of analog
power technology for our customers."
Jazz initially announced its high voltage offerings with a comprehensive
0.18µm process platform with up to 40V capability (supporting
1.8 and 5V CMOS simultaneously), with several analog features for
high levels of subsystem integration. Subsequently, Jazz announced
a low-cost version of the same process, removing the 1.8V devices
and some of the analog features to create streamlined versions of
its high voltage offerings.
Recently, Jazz announced its acquisition of a 0.5µm Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS
(BCD) technology that further rounded-out the company's high voltage
process offerings by bringing in a key technology for motor control,
power management and driver capability. Coupled with its existing
BCD process platform, Jazz CP05 is a volume production process that
completes the power management roadmap with a 0.5µm - 0.25µm
hybrid process specifically aimed at power control and power management
for consumer and wireless applications.
About Jazz Semiconductor
Jazz Semiconductor is an independent pure-play wafer foundry focused
primarily on specialty CMOS process technologies, including High
Voltage CMOS, SiGe BiCMOS and RFCMOS for the manufacture of highly
integrated analog and mixed-signal semiconductor devices. Jazz serves
customers targeting wireless, optical networking, power management,
consumer electronics, storage, aerospace/defense and other high-performance
applications. Jazz executive offices and its U.S. wafer fabrication
facilities are located in Newport Beach, CA. The company also has
engineering, manufacturing, and sales support in Shanghai, China.
Jazz has expanded its wafer capacity in China through manufacturing
partnerships with Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation
and Hua Hong NEC Electronics Co., Ltd. For more information, please
visit www.jazzsemi.com.
Jazz Company Contact
Jessica McNaughton
949/435-8086
jessica.mcnaughton@jazzsemi.com
Jazz Media Contact
Lauri Julian
949/715-3049
l.julian@mediaconnectpr.com
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