Citation
(2007), "MCE offers finer geometry ASICs for hand held devices", Microelectronics International, Vol. 24 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/mi.2007.21824aab.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2007, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
MCE offers finer geometry ASICs for hand held devices
MCE offers finer geometry ASICs for hand held devices
Specialist ASICs supplier MCE has announced a teaming agreement with Taiwanese company IC Nexus to give European design engineers access to low cost, low power and low leakage sub 100nm ASICs for use in hand-held devices.
Demanding performance specifications for hand-held consumer devices (such as cell phones, PDAs, GPS systems and audio/video players) increasingly require the use of the latest “fine geometry” semiconductor foundry technologies. These allow ASICs to deliver increased functionality and reduced power consumption (giving extended battery life) from smaller components.
Similar demands are now coming from hand-held applications in industrial products (e.g. monitoring, paging and communication systems) and medical systems (e.g. blood pressure monitors).
To meet these requirements MCE has teamed up with IC Nexus, a Taiwanese company specialising in sub 100nm design and foundry processes.
Through IC Nexus, MCE is now able to offer clients access to Fujitsu's state- of-the-art 90nm CMOS process and the 65nm one which is in development. These are ideally suited to the hand- held device market because they produce ASICs with extremely low current leakage.
MCE will support design engineers at every stage in the process of specifying, prototyping and final production of the sub 100nm ASICs, based on its unparalleled experience of design and manufacture of such components.
For further information, visit the web site: www.micro-circuit.com