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AWR and TriQuint Announce New Program to Help Designers Bring Wireless Prototypes to Market
Author: CompoundSemi News Staff

April 9, 2008... AWR, a maker of electronic design automation (EDA) software located in El Segundo, California and TriQuint, announced a program which TriQuint says offers designers an affordable and low-risk method of bringing wireless design prototypes to market. It is designed to give first-time AWR and TriQuint customers a low-cost introduction to the benefits of design and fabrication of gallium arsenide (GaAs) microwave monolithic integrated circuits (MMICs). The limited time offer comes with 90 days of free access to AWR’s EDA software, a free process design kit, Microwave Office® design suite, and a reduced-rate prototype development quickturn (PDQ) shared-wafer foundry run using TriQuint’s TQPED 0.5-µm pHEMT process.

AWR’s Microwave Office software reportedly encompasses essential tools for high-frequency design: linear and non-linear circuit simulators, electromagnetic (EM) analysis tools, integrated schematic and layout, statistical design capabilities, and parametric cell libraries with built-in design-rule check (DRC). TriQuint’s well-established TQPED is a 0.5-µm optical gate enhancement and depletion pHEMT process that features three thick global metal interconnect layers and is well-suited for building switches, low-noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, and integrated transceivers.

Mike Peters, Director of Marketing for TriQuint’s Commercial Foundry commented, “This joint AWR/TriQuint program offers companies with limitless ideas but limited resources an opportunity to bring an idea to life. We are excited to provide new customers with the opportunity to explore the value proposition GaAs offers for the development of wireless applications.” TriQuint News Release

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