Jazz Semiconductor

Jazz Semiconductor is a pure-play semiconductor wafer foundry that serves customers targeting wireless, optical networking, power management, storage, aerospace/defense and other high-performance applications. Jazz offers an advanced mixed-signal/RF design platform encompassing process technology, design kits, modeling, IP, and engineering services. Jazz has strong position in silicon germanium (SiGe), as well as bipolar CMOS (BiCMOS) and RF CMOS technologies.

Simucad Design Automations is pleased to offer the PDK for Jazz’s SBC18HX (0.18um SiGe BiCMOS) process available to Jazz customers for no charge.

Simucad PDKs provide a single-vendor complete, front-to-back design flow with interoperability between tools, versions, and design cycles. Our simple and effective design flow does not require a large in-house CAD support team. The Simucad PDK helps jump-start designers with an instantly productive environment for new design projects and ensures manufacturing success with pre-configured schematic symbols, SPICE models and layout technology files.

The Simucad PDK includes schematic symbols, SPICE models, Parameterized Cells (PCELLS), DRC/LVS runsets, parasitic extraction runsets, and scripts that run Simucad EDA tools to automate the generation and verification of design data.

PDK Documentation Included:

1. PDK Quickstart User’s Manual
2. Fabless Semiconductor Association PDK Checklist
3. Release notes