Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: PolarFab | Subject: Monte Carlo mismatch models
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 23 July 2004
Monte Carlo models improve mixed-signal
design
PolarFab has introduced Monte Carlo mismatch models that improve design support for the company's PBC4 BCD/BiCMOS process.
PolarFab has introduced Monte Carlo mismatch models that improve design support for the company's PBC4 BCD/BiCMOS process The new models optimise analogue and mixed-signal integrated circuit performance and create shorter design cycles
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 Jul 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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PolarFab's PBC4 0.5-micron BiCMOS process has been qualified for volume production.
This significantly reduces time-to-market for new products in high voltage power management and smart-power applications, which including motor controllers, gate drivers, and microprocessor supervisory circuits.
Monte Carlo mismatch models enable the simulation of mismatch behaviours for all major PBC4 devices such as resistors, capacitors, 5V CMOS and bipolar transistors.
The new models also optimise circuit designs by allowing designers to centre the design for optimum manufacturing yield, improving product performance, design robustness, and product quality.
The result is shorter design cycles as well as a lower cost per die, as designers no longer need to overdesign circuits.
The PBC4 process, available on 6 and 8in wafers, features 0.5-micron, 40V BCD/power BiCMOS technology.
The process includes complementary N- and P-channel MOSFETs with 5, 7, 16, and 30V capabilities as well as a 40 V capability for NMOS only; dual gate oxides (5.5 and 16V); a 16V poly-poly capacitor, a ZTC poly resistor, two high-value diffused resistors, a Schottky diode, a lateral PNP and two vertical NPN transistors.
Two- and three-layer metal versions of the process are also available.
The PBC4 process is supported with a complete set of design tools, including a process design kit (PDK), additional models, and a comprehensive design and layout manual, as well as PolarShuttle, PolarFab's multiproject, fast track programme to manufacture prototypes.
Customers can assess the Monte Carlo mismatch models via the secure section of PolarFab's website.
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