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Foundry Introduces 50V Process, Says 120V Possible

Austriamicrosystems’ Full Service Foundry business has introduced a High Performance CMOS High Voltage process capable of operating at 50V. The initial device offering will have operation voltages of 20V and 50V, but the company believes that the process is capable of providing devices with operating voltages beyond 120V and breakdown voltages beyond 150V.
Austriamicrosystems' Full Service Foundry business has introduced a High Performance CMOS High Voltage process capable of operating at 50V. The initial device offering will have operation voltages of 20V and 50V, but the company believes that the process is capable of providing devices with operating voltages beyond 120V and breakdown voltages beyond 150V.


The process is a fully modular proprietary extension of austriamicrosystems' production proven 0.35micron CMOS technology licensed from TSMC enabling optimum reuse of low voltage CMOS IP. The purely CMOS based HV process is achieved with only 17 to 19 masks making for cost competitiveness. HV ICs are used in display drivers, consumer, computer, telecom, automotive and industrial control applications.


“Our new purely CMOS based 0.35micron high voltage technology enables customers for the first time in the industry to also address high performance/high current applications that were previously reserved for much more complex and costly processes such as BCD,” says Peter Gasteiner, senior vice president and general manger of the business unit. “With our new proprietary High Voltage device architecture we achieve on-resistance values at least equivalent to benchmark BCD processes at much lower process complexity.”


Design rules and target parameters are available already and by the beginning of next year design starts and engineering runs will be available. Fully qualified production runs will be on offer from Q2 2004. The devices will be produced on austriamicrosystems' 200mm SMIF wafer production lines.


The process features extensively characterised and modelled 20V and 50V CMOS-HV and bipolar devices. The technology comes with a full set of analogue modules, capacitors and a high resistive poly option. Full design support including digital, analogue and high-voltage libraries and peripheral cells with high driving capability are available as part of the mixed-signal high-voltage HIT-Kit.



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