Date: 24/11/2009

Austriamicrosystem expands Multi Project wafer prototyping service

Austriamicrosystem has announced the expansion of its ASIC prototyping service, known as Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) or shuttle run, in 2010 with a more extensive schedule. This service combines several designs from different customers onto one wafer.

Austriamicrosystems' MPW service includes 0.18µm and 0.35µm specialty processes, and also offers four prototyping runs for its advanced 0.18µm High-Voltage CMOS technology H18. The H18 process technology is based on IBM's 0.18µm CMOS process CMOS7RF and is suitable for smart power management ICs in handsets, PDAs, portable media players and other mobile devices.

Austriamicrosystem says, to take advantage of the MPW service it delivers their completed GDSII-data at specific dates and receive untested packaged samples or dies within a short lead-time of typically 8 weeks for CMOS and 10 weeks for 0.35µm High-Voltage CMOS, SiGe-BiCMOS and Embedded Flash processes. All 0.35µm MPW runs will be produced at austriamicrosystems' 8-inch wafer fab in Austria.

For more details visit www.austriamicrosystems.com