EDN

Academia, industry divided over RF CMOS

SAN FRANCISCO — The International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) renewed a running debate over the suitability of CMOS for radio frequency circuits in a heavily attended evening panel session ...
EDN

Fujitsu launches RF CMOS at 65 nm

Levering their digital CMOS 65 nm process, Fujitsu announced this morning availability of PDKs and shuttle runs for a 65 nm RF CMOS process. Offering MIM and MOS capacitors, thick metal inductors, and ...
Electronic Design

RF CMOS ASIC Platforms Simplify Implementation Of Advanced RF SoCs

Toshiba Electronics Europe’s ASIC Foundry Business Unit has announced a new generation of technologies and services for speeding the development and reducing the cost of system-on-a-chip (SoC) RF ICs ...
Business Wire

TowerJazz Releases Enhanced RF SOI CMOS and High Speed SiGe Process Design Kits for Use with Agilent Technologies’ Advanced Design System Software

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, today announced the availability of enhanced RF SOI CMOS and high speed SiGe process design kits (PDKs) for its ...
Semiconductor Engineering

CMOS And SOI Invade RF Front End

The next-generation 4G wireless standard known as long-term evolution (LTE) presents some new and difficult design choices for OEMs. One of the more difficult choices involves the less glamorous, but ...
Design-Reuse

Infineon to Enter Ultra-Wideband Market with Industry's First Dual-Band RF-CMOS Transceiver Core - Paving the Way for the Converged Entertainment Cell Phone

Munich, Germany, July 19, 2006-- Infineon Technologies AG (FSE/NYSE: IFX), a leading provider of communication chips, today announced successful tape-out of a dual-band UWB (Ultra-Wideband) Radio ...
Business Wire

LFoundry Announces Availability of Interoperable Process Design Kit (iPDK) for 0.15 µm High Performance Analog and RF CMOS Process for Keysight Technologies Advanced Design ...

LANDSHUT, Germany & MUNICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LFoundry today announced the availability of an OpenAccess (OA) based interoperable process design kit (iPDK) for high performance analog and RF design ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Modeling High-Performance Analog And RF Circuits In Nanometer-Scale CMOS

Today’s consumer, communication, and computer electronic devices have clocks, communication interfaces, and high-speed signal-conditioning circuits that operate at radio frequencies (RF). Providing ...
Digi Times

TSMC: Applying 0.18-micron RF CMOS processing to Silicon Labs transceiver

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) began volume production of mobile phone RF transceivers using 0.18-micron RF CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) processing for US-based ...
JSTOR Daily

Beyond CMOS: heterogeneous integration of III–V devices, RF MEMS and other dissimilar materials/devices with Si CMOS to create intelligent microsystems

Advances in silicon technology continue to revolutionize micro-/nano-electronics. However, Si cannot do everything, and devices/components based on other materials systems are required. What is the ...
Electronic Design

Model Extractor For CMOS Sports Improved RF/DC Parameters

It’s very difficult to create accurate device-simulation models for advanced CMOS digital processes. Why? Because hard-to-model effects like gate accumulation and tunneling, trap-assisted tunneling, ...