Alliances
Taiwan company WIN Semiconductors (WIN) and UK-based Roke Manor Research have made a "stategic alliance" combining GaAs processing and design capabilities to provide a complete solution from design to finished parts.
members to validate the X Architecture design-to-wafer supply chain at
130nm. The initiative seeks to introduce an architecture based on diagonal
rather than rectangular (Manhattan) chip wiring. Nikon used its NSR-S205C
KrF step-and-repeat exposure system to process X Architecture wafers and
validated the results. The experiments used X Architecture design data from
Cadence Design Systems, optical proximity correction (OPC) from Numerical
Technologies, and photomasks produced by DuPont Photomasks.
Taiwan company WIN Semiconductors (WIN) and UK-based Roke Manor Research
have made a "stategic alliance" combining GaAs processing and design
capabilities to provide a complete solution from design to finished parts.
WIN is a 150mm wafer pure-play GaAs RFIC/MMIC foundry service provider. Roke
Manor Research has expertise in radio frequency (RFIC) and monolithic
microwave (MMIC) IC design - particularly for pseudomorphic high electron
mobility transistor (pHEMT) receiver and hetrojunction bipolar transistor
(HBT) power amplifier parts.
