Design Services

Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits

Design Services

Services

  • Consulting
  • Feasibility studies
  • Circuit design
  • Circuit characterization
  • Production assistance
  • Small volume delivery
  • Complete system solutions







 

Technology and Foundry Basis

IC

  • CMOS as a mainstream technology
    Foundries: austriamicrosystems AG, Chartered, LFoundry, UMC
  • SiGe and III-V for professional applications: BiCMOS / SiGe, GaAs MESFET, HEMT und HBT
    Foundries: austriamicrosystems AG, IHP, IAF, TriQuint, UMS

 

Design Tools and Measurement Equipment










State-of-the-Art Design-Environment

  • CADENCE Virtuoso: Custom IC design, layout and verification
  • Agilent ADS, Golden Gate, MOMENTUM: RF and microwave design
  • SEQUENCE Columbus: Layout extraction



Measurement Equipment

  • On-wafer measuring up to 67 GHz
  • Network analysis up to 67 GHz
  • Spectrum analysis up to 40 GHz
  • Sampling oscilloscope up to 50 GHz