Atmel Offers 82-GHz SiGe Process for Foundry
Source: Atmel
San Jose, CA. Atmel Wireless & Microcontrollers, a division of Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), announced today an upgrade of its high-volume production Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) technology for foundry. The new upgrade SiGe2, provides a higher frequency of up to 82 GHz for communications applications.
"After having shipped millions of SiGe products in the first quarters of this year, we have upgraded our process to even faster transistors," said Frank Heinricht, Chief Executive Officer at Atmel Wireless & Microcontrollers. "To strengthen our business in the Communications market and extend it into the transmission and high-speed fiber optics domain, we will offer this upgrade of our technology for our foundry customers."
The new technology SiGe2 therefore offers a transit frequency and a maximum oscillation frequency of 82 GHz while featuring a noise figure of 1.5 dB at 5 GHz. The available transistor types can be operated at 2.5 or 4.0 V, and are especially suited for low-voltage and low-power operation. Of course, state-of-the-art passive components like resistors, capacitors and inductors are available.
Atmel Wireless & Microcontrollers offers this process for foundry to its customers. A Design Manual as well as a Cadence Design Kit are available and prototype runs can be started now. For prototyping, customers can choose between a full engineering run or a die on multi-project-wafers, both to be delivered after 9 weeks.
SiGe, the latest semiconductor process for RF applications, provides an ideal platform for tomorrow s solutions for the enormously expanding telecommunications market. This technology offers benefits not attainable by conventional Silicon bipolar technologies; it enables lower noise, higher switching speed and lower power consumption.
Atmel Wireless & Microcontrollers is a market leader in SiGe with long-standing RF design expertise; the current SiGe product portfolio includes a broad range of power amplifiers and front ends for mobile communication systems. The company operates a 6-inch SiGe wafer fabrication facility with foundry services in Heilbronn, Germany.
About Atmel
Founded in 1984, Atmel Corporation is headquartered in San Jose, California with manufacturing facilities in North America and Europe. Atmel designs, manufactures and markets, worldwide advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and RF semiconductors. Atmel is also a leading provider of system-level integration semiconductor solutions using advanced CMOS, BiCMOS, bipolar, high-voltage BCDMOS and SiGe process technologies. Note to Editors: Atmel, the Atmel logo and combinations thereof and others contained herein, are trademarks of Atmel Corporation. Terms and product names in this document may be the trademarks of others. Atmel Wireless & Microcontrollers product information may be retrieved at www.atmel-wm.com.
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AtmelHead of BC Communications
Dominik Winau
Tel: +49 7131 67 3001
Email: dominik.winau@atmel-wm.com
Market Communications Manager
Veronique Sablereau
Tel: 33 1 30 60 70 68
Email: veronique.sablereau@atmel-wm.com
E-mail: veronique.sablereau@atmel-wm.com
Web site: http://www.atmel-wm.com
