EDN

Specialty CMOS process enables high levels of integration for analog and RF products

Newport Beach, CA—Jazz Semiconductor announced the availability of a 17-GHz vertical PNP (VPNP) module on its 0.18um RFCMOS platform. The addition of the VPNP module to its RFCMOS platform enables the ...
Houston Chronicle

What Is the Primary Function of the BIOS & the CMOS?

A computer's Basic Input Output System and Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor together handle a rudimentary and essential process: they set up the computer and boot the operating system. The BIOS ...
EDN

Foundry offers bipolar CMOS DMOS process for power management market

Jazz Semiconductor, an independent wafer foundry focused primarily on specialty CMOS process technologies, today announced the availability of 0.5 micron BCD process technology targeted for power ...
Electronic Design

8-in. Wafers For High-End Analog CMOS Process Cut Cost, Boost Performance

The HPA07 high-performance CMOS semiconductor process from Texas Instruments will foster development of advanced analog chips, including analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, op amps, ...
Electronics Weekly

TSMC to launch integrated CMOS-MEMS process

Digitimes, the Taiwan news site, reports that TSMC is about to offer a one-stop MEMS process that will halve the cost of fabricating MEMS. TSMC is said to be refusing to comment on the expected ...
Electronic Design

So...The CMOS Circuits in Our Texts Go Back to 1963?

The first CMOS chip was created by Fairchild Semiconductor, presented at ISSCC in 1963. The logic topologies used in today’s textbooks originated in this work. P-type devices are slower than N-type by ...