Applied Wave Research (AWR) and United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS) announced their "Try the Power" incentive program to allow new customers to bring gallium arsenide (GaAs) microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) design prototypes to market faster by using AWR's Microwave Office suite of computer-aided-engineering (CAE) tools and the UMS PPH25X GaAs foundry process design kit (PDK). The incentive program includes free PDKs, a free 90-day lease for the Microwave Office design software, and a reduced-rate prototype development quick-turn (PDQ) shared-wafer foundry run using the UMS PPH25X process. The process features a transition frequency of 45 GHz that supports high-power devices at microwave frequencies.

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