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1 October 2009

 

AWR and WIN release PDK for H2W PH50-00 GaAs foundry process

As the latest in its series of process design kits (PDKs) for monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) designers, the high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) software tool provider AWR of El Segundo, CA, USA has released a PDK for the PH50-00 GaAs enhancement/depletion-mode pseudomorphic high-electron-mobility transistor (pHEMT) and heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) process (or H2W) of Taiwan’s WIN Semiconductors Corp (which is reckoned to be the world’s largest pure-play 6-inch gallium arsenide foundry).

WIN PH50-00 is a high-frequency, high-power MMIC process that has been in production since 2007. AWR says that, until now, PDKs and design tools have lacked the technology needed to take full advantage of the advanced features in the process.

However, the new WIN/AWR PDK fully exploits the process along with the unique technologies in the latest version of AWR’s Microwave Office software (v2009), as well as AWR’s ACE automatic circuit extraction technology, AXIEM 3D planar electromagnetic simulator, and APLAC multi-rate harmonic balance (MRHB) simulator.

The WIN/AWR PP50-00 PDK can be resident in Microwave Office software simultaneously with packaging and other foundry PDKs to provide a complete module co-design environment.

“The latest WIN/AWR PDK provides customers with the most accurate models available for pHEMT and HBT process technologies,” claims Gary St. Onge, WIN’s senior VP of international sales. “By facilitating our customers' design flow with advanced compound semiconductor processes as well as advanced EDA tools and flows, we bridge the gap from design concept to working product,” he adds.

The new PDK's versatility is unmatched in enabling high levels of integration and performance, claims Sherry Hess, AWR's VP of marketing. “These achievements make the process exceptionally well suited for the most complex, functionally dense MMICs,” she adds.

All AWR/WIN PDKs are distributed by WIN free of charge to qualifying customers.

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