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Atmel Offers 45-GHz SiGe BiCMOS Process and Design Kit for System-On-Chip Solutions

Source: Atmel Corporation

July 17, 2001

San Jose, CA. Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), announced today the availability of an advanced Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS process technology, AT46000. This technology has been developed for use in telecommunications and high-speed data applications up to 12 GHz. The process offers designers bipolar speeds of 45 GHz, 3.3 volt CMOS with a 5.0 volt I/O option, and a complete digital standard cell library. The AT46000 process is the first of several SiGe BiCMOS processes offered in the Atmel SiGe BiCMOS roadmap.

This process technology provides many optional devices for application specific product designs in addition to the CMOS and bipolar transistor suite. The AT46000 process includes low-noise isolated NMOS transistors, multiple capacitors (poly-plate and MIM (Q=80@2Ghz), multiple resistor types (nwell, P+/N+, S/D, poly), diodes, varactors, and inductors.

A Cadence® design kit is available for designers who want to use the AT46000 process. The design kit supports accurate mixed signal simulation between digital, analog and RF circuits. New designs can be evaluated with either a full engineering run or with a portion of a multi-project wafer run. Use of shared multi-project wafers can significantly reduce new product development costs.

"We are a high-volume producer of both mixed-signal and wireless semiconductors and now we can offer our customers an enabling SiGe BiCMOS process for developing their system-on-a-chip solutions. Using our design kit we currently have multiple customers evaluating silicon prototypes for next generation telecommunication and high-speed data applications," said Tony Giraudo, vice president and general manager of BiCMOS and custom ASIC products.

SiGe BiCMOS offers benefits not attainable by conventional silicon BiCMOS technologies; it enables lower noise, higher switching speed, and lower power consumption. This technology is the most advanced cost- effective semiconductor process for telecommunications and high-speed data applications and it provides an ideal platform for tomorrow s solutions for these rapidly expanding markets.

For more information about SiGe BiCMOS please visit www.atmel.com/sige.htm.

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 CMOS, BiCMOS, bipolar SiGe, and high-voltage BCDMOS process technologies.

Atmel product and financial information can be retrieved from its Fax-on-Demand service. In North America call 1-(800) 292-8635. Internationally from a fax phone, dial 1-(408) 441-0732. Requests may be sent via e-mail to literature@atmel.com or by visiting Atmel s website at www.atmel.com.

© Atmel Corporation 2001. All rights reserved. Atmel, the Atmel logo and combinations thereof and others contained herein, are trademarks of Atmel Corporation. Cadence is a registered trademark of Cadence Design Systems Inc. Other terms and product names in this document may be the trademarks of others.

Contact: Vicki McCann, marketing communications manager Tel: (719) 540-1724 vmccann@cso.atmel.com or Tony Giraudo, vice president and general manager of BiCMOS and custom ASIC products Tel: (719) 540-1034 tgiraudo@cso.atmel.com

 

Vicki McCann, marketing communications manager
Tel: (719) 540-1724
vmccann@cso.atmel.com
or
Tony Giraudo, vice president and general manager of BiCMOS and custom ASIC
products
Tel: (719) 540-1034
tgiraudo@cso.atmel.com
 
E-mail: tgiraudo@cso.atmel.com
Web site: http://www.atmel.com
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