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To meet the growing needs of the wireless RF integrated circuit (RFIC) developers, Applied Wave Research Inc. (AWR) has announced a corporate agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) to jointly develop and deliver a design platform for TSMC's 0.35-micron silicon germanium (SiGe) process. The platform will include AWR's Analog Office RFIC design software, a TSMC 0.35-micron SiGe process design kit (PDK) based on open software standards, and an end-user full product support package.

Under the agreement, TSMC and AWR will develop a new set of process-calibrated and process-tuned device models for the TSMC 0.35-micron SiGe process. The model set will include HICUM bipolar transistor models, as well as a comprehensive set of accurately tuned spiral inductor models.

XMOD Technologies, a company specializing in RF device modeling, will provide the geometry-scalable HICUM model libraries. The new models will enable analog and RFIC designers to develop next-generation wireless ICs quickly and easily, leveraging the full capability of the advanced SiGe process, and with full confidence that the circuits will perform as designed in silicon. The newly developed models will be packaged as part of a complete PDK based on the AWR unified data model and other open software platforms.