Keysight EDA Strengthens Design and Simulation Support for Tower Semiconductor RF Process Technologies
November 15 2023 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
- Design engineers seamlessly simulate integrated circuits
targeting Tower’s radio frequency technologies using the suite of
Keysight Electronic Design Automation software with the latest
process design kits
- Electro-thermal simulation in Keysight's Advanced Design
Systems ensures radio frequency integrated circuits targeting Tower
SiGe90 meet operating temperature specifications
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) expanded the simulation
capabilities in its Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software
suite to include electro-thermal simulation for the Tower
Semiconductor SiGe Power Amplifier (PA) process. Together with
process design kits (PDKs) for Tower radio frequency (RF)
technologies for circuit and physical designs, the new
electro-thermal simulation enables integrated circuit (IC)
designers to achieve first pass success.
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Simulated electro-thermal results in ADS
show expected gradient in the temperature profile with the inner
emitter regions of heater NPN being hottest and heat diffusing out
symmetrically to the sensor NPNs. (Graphic: Business Wire)
Keysight Advanced Design System (ADS), RFPro, and RFIC Design
(GoldenGate) are industry leading platforms for RF and microwave
circuit design that help designers address their most difficult
challenges with advanced solutions for radio frequency integrated
circuit (RFIC), electromagnetic (EM), and electro-thermal
simulation. Platform interoperability allows IC designers to access
Keysight simulation technologies independent of which schematic or
layout environment they use to generate the design.
Tower offers silicon-based analog foundry technologies – silicon
germanium (SiGe) for both high-speed and high-power and RF
silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – optimized to assist chip suppliers in
delivering differentiated RF front-end solutions for increasingly
complex devices. Designers employ Tower’s latest PDKs in developing
and simulating their RFICs for various applications with Keysight
EDA tools.
Dr. Samir Chaudhry, Senior Director of Design Enablement at
Tower Semiconductor, said: “Tower has been successfully
collaborating with Keysight to solve the most complex RF problems
for our customers. Keysight supports our RF PDKs for design and
simulation in ADS with accurate electromagnetic analysis in RFPro.
Enablement of Keysight’s differentiated electro-thermal solution in
ADS for Tower’s SiGe PA processes is a welcome move that is already
helping RF SiGe customers perform accurate thermal analyses of
their designs.”
Nilesh Kamdar, Senior Director and RF/Microwave Portfolio
Manager at Keysight, said: “Keysight and Tower have been
partnering for more than a decade to enable our mutual customer
design flows with advanced RF solutions, helping them to achieve
faster time-to-market. This year, our partnership achieved another
milestone by providing electro-thermal simulation capability for
Tower’s RF SiGe processes as part of ADS. Using this new
capability, customers can ensure that their ICs perform within
acceptable operating temperatures prior to manufacturing.”
Visit the Tower Semiconductor foundry page for more information
about Keysight EDA support for Tower technologies.
Visit Tower Semiconductor for more information about the
company. Credentialed Tower customers can find the RF PDKs for use
in Keysight EDA software available in the Tower eBizz portal.
About Keysight Technologies
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