TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies Announces X-FAB’s Worldwide Adoption of IC-CAP Device Modeling Platform
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-(Business Wire)-September 21, 2009 - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced an expansion of its Integrated Circuit Characterization and Analysis Program (IC-CAP) software platform at X-FAB — a leading analog/mixed-signal foundry and expert in “More than Moore” technologies. The expansion is the result of a joint effort to train X-FAB’s IC-CAP users on the Agilent software’s measurement and extraction capabilities, including new functionality in IC-CAP 2009, as well as its application to specific X-FAB modeling needs. With the completion of this training, X-FAB has now adopted IC-CAP device modeling software at all of its locations worldwide.
Agilent IC-CAP software is a flexible device-modeling program that delivers powerful characterization and analysis capabilities for today’s semiconductor modeling processes for DC and RF applications. Providing efficient and accurate extraction of active device and circuit model parameters, IC-CAP performs numerous modeling tasks including instrument control, data acquisition, graphical analysis, simulation and optimization. It is used by semiconductor foundries and design houses to characterize foundry processes.
Using IC-CAP and its advanced capabilities (e.g., GUI Studio), X-FAB was able to efficiently implement a customized device modeling flow that included proprietary, RF model extraction techniques and corner simulation setups. It also implemented on-target modeling, automated documentation tools and enhanced leakage modeling of CMOS transistors. Additionally, X-FAB was able to develop special IC-CAP-based applications like One-Time Programmable (OTP) memory and high-voltage CMOS transistor models.
“We are pleased that IC-CAP’s flexible, easily customizable platform enabled X-FAB to implement the strategies and techniques necessary to effectively meet its device modeling goals while also realizing improved time-to-market,” said Todd Cutler, marketing manager with Agilent’s EEsof EDA division. “The major software/platform technology enhancements we have implemented in the 2009 release of IC-CAP will ensure that X-FAB is equipped with the most powerful and flexible device modeling platform to meet their needs for years to come.”
“For the past eight years, IC-CAP has been X-FAB’s workhorse device modeling tool,” said Sebastian Schmidt, group coordinator of SPICE modeling at X-FAB’s facility in Erfurt, Germany. “With the platform enhancements being implemented in IC-CAP 2009 and its high level of customization that enables us to easily exchange information among our worldwide fabs via IC-CAP project files, Agilent’s IC-CAP software offers us the most efficient path to accurate model extraction.”
For more information about IC-CAP, visit www.agilent.com/find/eesof-iccap.
About Agilent EEsof EDA Software
Agilent EEsof EDA is the technology leader and industry’s leading supplier of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software for microwave, RF, high-frequency, high-speed, RF system, electronic system level (ESL), circuit, 3-D electromagnetic, physical design and device-modeling applications. Agilent EEsof EDA offers personal, value-priced products as well as enterprise-level solutions that save money, improve design flows and simplify EDA vendor relationships. Agilent EEsof EDA software is compatible with and is used to design the company’s test and measurement equipment. Additional information about all Agilent EDA software offerings is available at www.agilent.com/find/eesof.
About X-FAB
X-FAB is the leading analog/mixed-signal foundry group manufacturing silicon wafers for analog-digital integrated circuits (mixed-signal ICs). X-FAB maintains wafer production facilities in Erfurt and Dresden (Germany), Plymouth (UK), Lubbock, Texas (US) and Kuching, Sarawak (Malaysia), and employs approximately 2,600 people worldwide. Wafers are manufactured based on advanced modular CMOS and BiCMOS processes with technologies ranging from 1.0 to 0.18 micrometers, for applications primarily in the automotive, communications, consumer and industrial sectors. For more information, please visit www.xfab.com.
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is the world’s premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company’s 18,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenues of $5.8 billion in fiscal 2008. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.
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