Fujitsu licenses Jazz design kits for RF SoC products
By John Mathews
Fujitsu Microelectronics has licensed Jazz Semiconductor's high-precision RF models and design kits for RF and high digital content System-on-Chip products.
This license agreement creates a time-to-market advantage for RF CMOS customers requiring 90nm and 65nm technology for these products and provides for an ongoing royalty revenue stream to Jazz.
Jazz design kits are expected to contain well developed RF device models and productive RF design tools which provide customers time-to-market for RF design by reducing design time and the number of mask spins required for production.
The alliance between Fujitsu and Jazz enables both companies to deliver high-performance customer owned tooling (COT) foundry services to System-on-Chip (SoC) customers for products developed using the Fujitsu low-leakage, LSI manufacturing process at the company's 300mm Mie fab in Japan.
Tatsuya Yamazaki, vice president in charge of the ASIC/COT business of Fujitsu Microelectronics, said: "Jazz's RF models and design kits address the key challenges engineers face in providing optimal products while meeting stringent deadlines. Worldwide demand for high-frequency wireless and high-speed networking products continues to grow, and these kits and models are invaluable to Fujitsu's efforts to consistently meet customer requirements."
Chuck Fox, senior vice president of worldwide sales at Tower Semiconductor, said: "The collaboration between Jazz and Fujitsu is a cost-effective approach to providing optimal solutions aimed at the wireless SoC market. Jazz's continued relationship with Fujitsu aids in the expansion of our technology roadmap, and we will also continue to focus on high-speed AIMS solutions for customers targeting best-of-breed technology down to the 130nm node."