AWR And Global Communication Semiconductors Announce Support For InP Foundry Process
Microwave Office 2002 EDA Design Suite to Provide Advanced Libraries for MMIC Designers
GaAs IC Technology Exhibition, MONTEREY, Calif. -- October 21, 2002 -- Applied Wave Research, Inc. (AWR), a leading supplier of high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) tools, and Global Communication Semiconductors, Inc. (GCS), a pure-play compound semiconductor wafer foundry, today announced plans to provide process design kit (PDK) library support for GCS's indium phosphide (InP) foundry process. The PDKs will provide monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) designers, using AWR's Microwave OfficeTM 2002 software, with an advanced circuit simulation and layout environment for designing with GCS's high-performance process.
GCS provides InP foundry services for a variety of very high-frequency wireless, telecommunications, and fiber optic communications systems. "AWR has been a valuable partner to GCS for a number of years," said Dr. Owen Wu, founder and chief strategy officer of GCS. "By working together, to integrate InP process technology into the Microwave Office design flow, we provide our joint customers a tremendous competitive advantage."
"GCS has been developing compelling semiconductor technology and InP process is of great interest to our customers," said James Spoto, CEO and president of AWR. "We are very pleased to be working with a leading-edge foundry, such as GCS, to provide an integration that streamlines the MMIC design process by improving simulation accuracy and reducing development time."
The PDKs will include validated electrical models and parameterized layout cells that have been tested and validated against GCS design rules. "First pass success is critical, even more so with higher-performance processes, such as InP," continued Wu. "By teaming with AWR, we are addressing our customers' shrinking time-to-market windows with integrated libraries that minimize design iteration."
Price and Availability
The GCS PDKs for Microwave Office 2002 software will be available Q4 and will be free of charge to AWR customers with the complete Microwave Office 2002 design suite. For more information about GCS foundry products click on the yellow "Request Free Information" button at the top or bottom of this page.
About Applied Wave Research, Inc.
Applied Wave Research was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in El Segundo, California. The company is a supplier of high-frequency electronic design automation products for the design of wireless telecommunications equipment, semiconductors, high-speed computers, networking systems, and a variety of other electronics-based products. AWR has sales offices, training centers, and distributors around the world.
About Global Communication Semiconductors
Global Communication Semiconductors Inc., based in Torrance, California, an ISO 9002 certified company, provides compound semiconductor foundry services to the wireless telecommunication and high-speed networking industries. GCS currently offers foundry service for both InGaP and InP HBT processes and provides optoelectronic foundry services for PIN diodes used in the fiber optic communication market.
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