CORBEIL ESSONNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Altis Semiconductor, the innovative European based specialty foundry, today announced support for Agilent Technologies’ Momentum 3D planar electromagnetic (EM) simulator as part of the Altis RF Design Platform for its 0.18µm and 0.13µm processes. The qualification of Momentum for Altis's RF processes is part of a long-term collaboration between the two companies to accelerate customers' RF IP development time.
Agilent’s Momentum is a powerful 3D planar electromagnetic simulator for RF passive component design and analysis of high frequency effects related to on-chip interconnects and other layout structures. Momentum is seamlessly integrated into the Cadence® Virtuoso® Platform.
"One of Altis' strength is the ability to develop customers' dedicated technology derivatives for RF CMOS applications,” said Gianmaria Mazzucchelli, Altis Semiconductor’s Vice President Design Center. "Our customers require dedicated RF design flow support to handle the advanced challenges of today's sophisticated RF designs. Support for Momentum provides our customers access to Agilent's proven expertise in RF and microwave design. As a next step, we have started to qualify Agilent's GoldenGate RFIC circuit simulation, analysis and verification tools and are planning to support this in our PDKs later this year."
“We have collaborated with Altis for quite some time and I’m very pleased that we have reached yet another milestone,” said Juergen Hartung, foundry program manager of Agilent’s EEsof EDA organization. “With the qualification of Momentum, our customers can now enjoy the industry’s most popular EM analysis support within Altis's RF processes to increase performance, consistency and yield.”
About Altis Semiconductor
Altis Semiconductor is an independent and privately held Semiconductor Foundry company based in France with an industrial campus in Corbeil-Essonnes, a city 40 km south of Paris. The baseline technologies for Altis come from the proven technology platforms of IBM and Infineon, the former shareholders of Altis. With a robust technology portfolio, proven operational excellence and strict quality compliance, Altis is the ideal foundry partner to serve customers in different high volume and specialty markets.
About Agilent EEsof EDA Software
Agilent EEsof EDA is the leading supplier of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software for communications product design. Microwave and RF circuit design, high-speed, device modeling, and signal-processing design engineers create better products faster using design flows built on our system, component, and physics-level design and simulation tools.