TowerJazz announces participation with Cadence at DAC 2010

DAC 2010, NEWPORT BEACH, USA: TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, has announced joint participation with Cadence Design Systems at the 2010 Design Automation Conference (DAC) taking place in Anaheim, Calif. on June 13-18.

Representatives from the companies will provide a presentation entitled, “Silicon Realization in RF and Power Designs: How advanced PDK features enable design success,” on Monday, June 14 at 4:00PM.

Discussion will cover physical design kit (PDK) building blocks created specifically for the RF or power management markets and how those blocks work along with the Cadence Virtuoso IC 6.1 software suite to provide customers with increased productivity, better design robustness, and higher confidence in the finished design.

“TowerJazz has achieved a full release of our SKILL PDK for the Cadence Virtuoso custom design platform in our 0.18-micron SiGe BiCMOS process (SBC18). This capability, together with world-class device performance, will allow us to grow share of this segment of the specialty wafer market which we estimate at $1.2B in size," said Robert Milkovits, Customer Technical Support at TowerJazz.

"These design kits, created in collaboration with Cadence, will increase access to this platform for our customers and provide them with world-class design features that are immediately usable in their design environments. Through advanced offerings and our commitment to design enablement, our customers continue to achieve first silicon success.”

“TowerJazz’s SKILL PDKs serve as excellent examples of high-value design features that can help our mutual customers quickly and accurately achieve System Realization, one of the key pillars of the EDA360 vision,” said John Stabenow, Group Director, Virtuoso Product Marketing at Cadence.

”Narrowing the productivity and profitability gaps depends on effective IP integration, and with the latest version of the Cadence Virtuoso platform, the companies are providing customers with more predictable design cycles to accelerate delivery of their next-generation products.”