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JAZZ SEMICONDUCTOR ANNOUNCES ADVANCED INDUCTOR DESIGN AND MODELING
PLATFORM FOR ANALOG AND RF FOUNDRY CUSTOMERS
Jazz Inductor Toolbox Provides Designers with State-of-the-Art
Design Tool for Octagonal and Square Inductors
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., September 12, 2006
-- Jazz Semiconductor, an independent wafer foundry focused primarily
on specialty CMOS process technologies, today announced the availability
of its Jazz Inductor Toolbox (JIT) version 4.0, an addition to its
already sophisticated analog and RF modeling environment. The JIT
provides advanced modeling capability for octagonal and square inductors,
in both single-ended and differential configurations. The toolbox
is integrated into Jazz's standard analog and RF design kits allowing
users to design and simulate inductors to meet specific characteristics
such as inductance, quality factor (Q), and self-resonant frequency.
The physically based compact models are accurate over broadband
frequencies and have been verified over a full range of geometries
in all Jazz technologies. Additionally, the toolkit supports ground
shields, modeling of packaging compounds, and a built-in searchable
inductor database to assist in the design process.
Integrated inductors are a key component for complex RF designs,
where they are used extensively in tuning, filtering and impedance
matching for integrated circuit design. By offering octagonal and
square inductors, the JIT provides flexibility to the designer for
choosing the right inductors when designing their products. RF and
analog design requires scalable Spice-level models for all circuit
design components including inductors to enable an efficient and
robust circuit design process. The general lack of support for scalable
inductor models in the industry often forces designers to resort
to a time-consuming process of electromagnetic (EM) simulation and
silicon verification. The JIT bridges this gap by providing accurate,
fully scalable broadband modeling over a wide range of Jazz foundry
processes.
"Jazz continues to enhance and develop our design and modeling
environment in an effort to better serve the analog and RF customer
base that designs in our specialty process technologies," stated
Marco Racanelli, vice president of technology and engineering at
Jazz Semiconductor. "The new Jazz Inductor Toolkit is an extension
of an already sophisticated analog and RF platform used by circuit
designers to speed their design cycles and improve their silicon."
By offering an inductor toolkit to its customers, Jazz enables
circuit designers to instantiate fully scalable inductor components,
driven by design inputs such as outer dimension, line width, line
space, and number of turns. These inputs are then combined with
information on substrate choice of bulk silicon or ground shield,
optional dielectric constant for the packaging compound, and the
electrical process specifications describing the metal, dielectric
stack and substrate, to compute the models and generate the layout.
The typical computation time for generating a model is less than
two seconds. In addition, a large set of pre-computed inductor performances,
from on the order of 5000 single-ended and 2000 differential inductors
in each technology, offer the designer a database to quickly search
for a suitable inductor meeting specified criteria.
"Jazz strives to deliver modeling platforms that enable our
customers to realize optimal performance of their designs while
greatly reducing design cycle times," said Volker Blaschke,
distinguished RF modeling engineer at Jazz Semiconductor. "The
Jazz Inductor Toolbox demonstrates our dedication to providing cutting
edge inductor design capability."
Availability
The Jazz Inductor Toolbox with octagonal inductors, ground shields
and packaging compound modeling is currently available to Jazz customers
in 0.13-micron SiGe BiCMOS, 0.18-micron SiGe BiCMOS, 0.35-micron
SiGe BiCMOS and RFCMOS.
About Jazz Semiconductor
Jazz Semiconductor is an independent 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. 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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