CMP selects TowerJazz’s advanced power management and CMOS image sensor processes and PDKs

DATE 2011, MIGDAL HAEMEK, ISRAEL & NEWPORT BEACH, USA: TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, today announced that its advanced 0.18 micron power management and CMOS image sensor (CIS) technology and sophisticated process design kits (PDKs) are now available for prototyping to companies, universities and research labs through the services provided by CMP.

Since 1981, CMP, an independent non-profit organization, has helped more than 1000 organizations from 70 countries access affordable commercial foundries by consolidating their designs onto Multi-Project wafers. CMP works with several foundry vendors supporting a range of technologies and has chosen TowerJazz for its excellence in process technology as well as its broad IP portfolio. CMP offers its customers experience with the entire design, layout, verification, and tapeout process, as well as the export guidance.

In power management, TowerJazz offers industry leading scalable Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) platforms with state of the art Rdson values including non-volatile memory (NVM). TowerJazz also offers a proprietary Y-Flash technology, the leading solution for NVM in the market today due to its small cell size, zero mask adder and flexibility to implement various memory sizes.

For high end CMOS image sensors, TowerJazz is one of the premier suppliers, well known for its internal pixel development and know-how. TowerJazz supports the customization of pixels per project needs and its superior performance (dark current, low noise and dynamic range) enables a rich offering for various digital imaging applications.

“We are very excited about this partnership with TowerJazz as they help fill a gap in our current process offering, reacting to the demand of many of our customers. The renowned quality of the characterization and the resulting PDKs help to assure first time silicon success,” said Bernard Courtois, Director of CMP.

“We are pleased to be recognized by CMP as a leading provider of both power management and CMOS imaging technologies and to be chosen to meet their customers’ needs for these advanced process platforms and PDKs,” said Dr. Franz Riedlberger, GM and senior sales director, Europe.“