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austriamicrosystems Releases Newest Version of Its Best in Class Process Design Kit

austriamicrosystems´ business unit Full Service Foundry announced today, at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Anaheim, California, the availability of its new analog/mixed signal high performance process design kit ("HIT-Kit") for its 0.35µm and 0.8µm technologies.

The new HIT-Kit based on latest Cadence EDA tools significantly improves the time-to-market and the time-to-profit for highly competitive products especially in the analog intensive mixed signal area. Supporting designers in creating their first-time-right mixed signal designs even for complex systems, this comprehensive design kit with its highly accurate simulation models and flexible pcells provides a proven route to silicon.

The new HIT-Kit v3.70 is available for Cadence Design Systems' latest version of Analog Design Environment and includes the high performance 0.35µm process technologies C35 (CMOS), S35 (SiGe-BiCMOS) and H35 (High Voltage CMOS) and the 0.8µm process technologies CXQ (CMOS), CXZ (High Voltage CMOS) and BYQ (BiCMOS).

It comes complete with fully silicon qualified standard cells, periphery cells and general purpose analog cells such as comparators, operational amplifiers, low power A/D and D/A converters. Custom analog and RF devices, physical verification rule sets for Assura and Calibre as well as excellent characterized circuit simulation models enable rapid design starts of complex high performance mixed signal ICs.

All I/O structures within the design kit are silicon-validated and meet the military ESD and JEDEC latch-up standards with I/O pads designed to surpass 2kV HBM and 250mA latch-up immunity. In C35 technology the total I/O libraries consist of more than 1800 cells supporting 3.3V and 3.3V/5V designs. The specialty High Voltage CMOS process H35 with its floating libraries even includes more than 2400 core and periphery cells.

"Our new Cadence based HIT-Kit v3.70 offers, beside a broad range of new tools for analog/mixed signal design like AMS-Designer, SoC Encounter and Ultrasim, a new set of area optimized periphery libraries for designs in our 0.35µm process technologies, which lead to significant lower die sizes," said Thomas Moerth, Manager Design Support, business unit Full Service Foundry. "The extensive support of available EDA software together with the wide range of available libraries gives our customers the possibility to create their designs on our specialty processes in the best possible design environment."

To meet our customers demands also in terms of flexibility, the HIT-Kit supports, beside RedHat Linux 7.3, also RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0, Sun Solaris and HP-UX operating systems. Read more details about this new HIT-Kit version at For further information please visit asic.austriamicrosystems.com/hitkit/hk370/index.html..

About austriamicrosystems
austriamicrosystems’ business unit Full Service Foundry has successfully positioned itself in the mixed signal foundry market offering well-established RF CMOS, HV CMOS, BiCMOS and SiGe-BiCMOS processes. With superior support during the design phase, with high-end tools and experienced engineers, austriamicrosystems is an attractive analog/mixed signal foundry partner especially for fabless design houses.

austriamicrosystems is a leading designer and manufacturer of high performance analog ICs, combining more than 20 years of analog design capabilities and system know-how with its own state-of-the-art manufacturing and test facilities. austriamicrosystems leverages its expertise in low power and high accuracy to provide industry-leading customised and standard analog products. Operating worldwide with more than 800 employees, austriamicrosystems focuses on the areas of power management, sensors & sensor interfaces, portable audio and car access through its business units Communications, Industry & Medical, Automotive and Full Service Foundry. austriamicrosystems is listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange in Zurich (ticker symbol: AMS).

For further information please visit www.austriamicrosystems.com.

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