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"EMX has been qualified to work with TSMC's iRCX interconnect modeling format. EMX uses the width-and spacing-dependent properties provided in the iRCX technology file and automatically modifies the drawn layout to mimic the fabrication process. The approach has been validated by comparing to measurements and showing that this significantly improves simulation accuracy for inductors and inter-digitated MOM capacitors. We have several mutual customers that use EMX+iRCX and have achieved silicon success.”
Tom Quan, Deputy Director of Design Service Marketing at TSMC. Details... |
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"Experiments within our lab have repeatedly demonstrated the accuracy of Integrand's tools EMX and Continuum across different design spaces The integration of the OIF and OCF into our Foundry Design Kits, along with the silicon verified scalable component models, provides a unique industry solution by allowing our customers to directly synthesize optimal passive components like inductors or capacitors within seconds. The efficiency with which our customers can now design and implement their circuits should dramatically reduce time-to-market for their products."
Dr. Long-Ching Yeh, Vice President of Design Tool Support and DFM at UMC. Details... |
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IBM uses EMX to simulate passives structures such as inductors, transformers, and through-silicon vias, significantly expediting the design and optimization of passives. In support of foundry customers, IBM provides consultation and guidance for layout optimization for RF signal integrity. EMX is generally used as part of this analysis and support flow. In addition, as a component of IBM process design kits, EMX process files and setup information are released to customers. This enables IBM and Integrand customers to run simulations with minimal effort, and allows them to focus on thorough analysis of technology capabilities, design trade-offs and performance improvements.
Dr. Mete Erturk, Manager, 200mm enablement, at IBM |
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"Global Foundries utilises Integrand's EMX and Continuum to characterize and simulate inductors and capacitors. These tools enable us to perform virtual fabrication and automatically construct accurate scalable models with good model-to-hardware correlation. We have done extensive verification of the models on 130nm and 65nm RFCMOS technology nodes and have found them to be correlating well with RF measurements on silicon. The accuracy of the models is vital to our customers as it enhances their design accuracy and product specifications while reducing risk and time-to-market."
Dr. Michael Cheng, Senior Director, Spice Modeling, Device Technology Division, Global Foundries |
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"EMX software is a powerful and user friendly simulation tool which is demonstrated to be most effective for RF designs such as VCOs / RF amplifiers thanks to excellent time vs. accuracy performance. Along with proper technology file definition, we were able to perform successful first pass fully functional and full specification designs in CMOS deep submicron technologies such as 65nm. Our VCO phase noise measurements show results within 1dB expectations! EMX enables a very high level of confidence for RF passive modeling. This allowed our group to test aggressive circuit structures and obtain better performances than our competitors."
Dr. Cao-Thong Tu, RFIC Design Manager at Marvell Semiconductor Switzerland |
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MediaTek Inc. is a leading fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions. The company is a market leader and pioneer in cutting-edge SOC system solutions for wireless communications, high-definition TV, optical storage, and DVD and Blu-ray products. Founded in 1997 and listed on Taiwan Stock Exchange under the code "2454", MediaTek is headquartered in Taiwan and has sales and research subsidiaries in Mainland China, Singapore, India, U.S., Japan, Korea, Ireland, Denmark and England. For more information, please visit MediaTek’s website at www.mediatek.com. |
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Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ: SLAB) is an industry leader in the innovation of high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs. Mixed-signal ICs enable the analog world we live in to interact with the digital world of computing in customer products like set-top boxes, televisions, and cell phones. Developed by a world-class engineering team, Silicon Labs’ diverse portfolio of highly-integrated, easy-to-use solutions are designed in CMOS, the most widely available process technology, enabling significant integration advantages without sacrificing performance. |
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"STATS ChipPAC has used the EMX simulator for design of its Integrated Passive Devices since 2003. EMX provides rapid, accurate EM simulations. Its capabilities for large-scale full-circuit simulation allows us to confidently predict the measured performance of devices, and helps to ensure first-pass design success."
Dr. Han Byung Joon, Chief Technology Officer, STATSChipPAC, Singapore |
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RF Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq GS: RFMD) is a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance semiconductor components. Headquartered in Greensboro, N.C., RFMD is an ISO 9001- and ISO 14001-certified manufacturer with worldwide engineering, design, manufacturing and sales facilities. RFMD is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol RFMD. |
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ST-Ericsson is a 50/50 joint venture created by bringing together ST-NXP Wireless and Ericsson Mobile Platforms, two of the world’s leading wireless semiconductor and platform companies, both with strong industry heritage. Pre-merger, the businesses individually generated combined pro-forma revenues of about US$3.6bn in 2008, placing ST-Ericsson among the top players in wireless semiconductors. The Company is an industry leader in design, development, and the creation of cutting-edge mobile platforms and wireless semiconductors. ST-Ericsson is a key supplier to four of the industry’s top five handset manufacturers, who together represent about 80 percent of global handset shipments, as well as to other exciting industry leaders. |
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LSI Corporation is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together. We offer a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are trusted by the world's best known brands to power leading solutions in the Storage and Networking markets. |
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"RF front ends for consumer electronics require fast product development and quick response to changing market needs. Critical to the success of SiGe in the WLAN, WiMAX and GPS front end markets is first pass design success driven in part by fast, easy to use and accurate EM simulations. SiGe has worked with the EMX simulation tool, and is pleased with the seamless integration into Cadence Virtuoso and the flexible operation using script driven input or a customizable GUI. Since SiGe designs RF in advanced BiCMOS processes, the ability to perform geometric operations to remove fill shapes and offsets was a significant benefit of EMX. The quick simulation times for complex structures and the technology file visualization tools for simple setup verification have allowed SiGe to increase designer productivity."
Dr. Peter Gammel, CTO and VP of Engineering, SiGe Semiconductor
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Huawei is a leading global telecommunications solutions provider with long-term partnerships with operators around the world. Our passionate employees and unmatched R&D capabilities enable us to react swiftly and effectively to meet our customers' needs with a comprehensive and customized set of end-to-end solutions and products. Working with our customers, we are committed to enriching people's lives through communication. Huawei's products and solutions encompassing wireless products(LTE/HSPA/WCDMA/EDGE/GPRS/GSM, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO/CDMA2000 1X, TD-SCDMA and WiMAX), core network products ( IMS, Mobile Softswitch, NGN ), network products(FTTx, xDSL, Optical, Routers, LAN Switch), applications and software(IN, mobile data service, BOSS), as well as terminals(UMTS/CDMA). |
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Realtek Semiconductor Corp. is one of the world’s leading IC providers. It designs and develops a wide range of IC products for wired and wireless communications network, computer peripheral, and multimedia applications. With advanced design expertise in RF, analog, and mixed signal circuits, and with strong manufacturing and system knowledge, Realtek offers full-featured, high-performance, and competitive total solutions. |
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"EMX is a very capable electromagnetic simulator for integrated circuits. Accurate modeling of inductors, capacitors and parasitic impedance is critical to the success of RF CMOS IC design. When we were looking for an electromagnetic simulator that meets our need, we were impressed with the capability of EMX after evaluating many simulators. Its ease of use and speed of simulation have enabled successful tapeout of many highly integrated RF CMOS ICs in Ralink Technology."
Dr. Keng Fong, Chief Scientist, Ralink Technology
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"Javelin Semiconductor has benchmarked EMX against several EM simulators. We have found EMX to be the most robust and user-friendly EM tool for analog/RF IC developers. It is well integrated into the Cadence Virtuoso environment, enabling simulation from final IC layouts, eliminating error-prone and time-consuming re-layout or solid-model entry. EMX is also fast and memory efficient, helping us get the most out of our servers. Most importantly, EMX is very accurate for a wide range of RF structures, helping us achieve first-pass success on our new 3G CMOS power amplifier product."
Dr. David Bockelman V. P. of Engineering Javelin Semiconductor, Inc. |
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MaxLinear is a provider of highly integrated radio-frequency analog and mixed signal semiconductor SoC solutions for broadband communication applications offering high levels of performance, small silicon die-size, and low power consumption. |
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Quantenna Communications, Inc. is a leading developer of Full-11n™ wireless networking solutions and the only one to deliver the entire complement of 802.11n Wi-Fi features for the highest possible quality and reliability in wireless home networking and digital entertainment. |
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K-micro’s innovative ASIC technologies and world-class design support are used in the consumer electronics, computer, office-automation, networking and storage markets. The company is an active participant in industry standards organizations, including InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) Technical Committee T10 for SCSI Storage Interfaces, PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG), USB Implementers Forum, Universal Plug and Play Forum (UPnP), the Digital Display Working Group (DDWG), Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA), and OCP International Partnership (OCP-IP). |
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Founded in July 1997, Shanghai Hua Hong NEC Electronics Company, Ltd. is one of Mainland China's leaders in the field of IC foundry service. The company is dedicated to the manufacture of IC, providing high quality products and value-added services to both domestic and overseas customers. It is well-known for its advanced technologies, on-time delivery performance, excellent yields and cost competitiveness. |
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M4S is a fabless semiconductor company developing an exciting, fresh approach to multi standard wireless connectivity in mobile devices. Whereas multi standard connectivity has increasingly become a must in today's converged devices, its implementation does imply a multitude of challenges for mobile device manufacturers. M4 is addressing these challenges based on the unique combination of disruptive Imec technology, access to proven stacks for the relevant standards and a total solution based approach. |
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"If you find it difficult to accept that each time your silicon measurements do not match your EM simulations, no matter how hard you have tried, then we have gone through the same experience! Exhausting electromagnetic extraction times, extremely reduced and simplified extraction elements, poor technology awareness; all of these belong in the past now! Since we have started using EMX, high-frequency chip design is no longer Russian Roulette." See the improvement using EMX at Wipro here
Dr. Carla Ghidini, NewLogic Technologies, A Wipro Company |
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ELXYS Innovations S.A. is a fabless semiconductor company specialized in providing cutting-edge analog, RF, and mixed-signal IC design services and relative semiconductor intellectual property (IP) products for the most demanding wireless applications. See testimonial... |
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