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MOSIS deal With Tanner to provide free design kits

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MOSIS has reached an agreement with Tanner EDA to provide foundry design kits free of charge to its customers.

The kits, which can cost several thousands of dollars from some EDA vendors, enable engineers to move easily between different process technologies without having to create new process set-ups every time, thus accelerating chip development. At the same time using design kits can reduce the likelihood of design errors or yield issues.

The kits are available for TSMC, AMS, AMIS and IBM processes down to 0.13 micron and include layer set ups, design rule and extraction definition files, paramaterizable cells, and schematic and physical libraries of standard devices.

MOSIS estimates that Tanner EDA tools have been used to create over 30% of the 50,000 designs so far processed by customers via its multi-project wafer (MPW) service. The MOSIS MPW service enables several customers to share the total cost of a wafer lot, with each paying a proportion based on the physical area used by their design.

Integrated device manufacturers (IDMs), fabless semiconductor companies and intellectual property (IP) developers use MPW services to prove their designs at minimum cost and risk. The same services can be used to produce hundreds of device samples for evaluation.

Furthermore, with some processes wafers can be held prior to metallization in order to facilitate rapid re-spins that only require the metal mask to be changed. Migration to a dedicated wafer run for high volume production is easily realized.

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