Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP) announced a process design kit for its quarter-micron SG25H3 silicon-germanium (SiGe) semiconductor process, based on the Advanced Design System (ADS) computer-aided-engineering (CAE) suite of software tools from Agilent Technologies. According to Professor Wolfgang Mehr, Scientific Director of IHP, "The complete ADS support in our SG25H3 technology gives our MMIC customers new excellent design capabilities. Having the complete ADS design kit, including layout tools, gives IHP and our customers the advantage of Agilent's proven expertise in microwave design. The powerful ADS simulation technology makes it easy to design ICs for applications up to 60 GHz. Our customers gain confidence about the accuracy of their designs at these high frequencies and avoid additional design cycles." The IHP SiGe PDK includes a complete set of MOSFETs, SiGe bipolar transistors, passive components such as poly resistors, MIM capacitors and inductors, and Schottky diodes.
