MagnaChip Offers Silicon On Insulator RF CMOS Technology - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - MagnaChip Semiconductor Corp. (MX), a Korea-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, said it now offers a 0.18um silicon on insulator or SOI RF CMOS technology for the emerging RF front-end module or FEM foundry market.

The SOI RF CMOS process technology is optimized for use in antenna switching and tuner applications. Switches and tuners are core components of wireless FEMs for cellular and Wi-Fi connectivity. CMOS based FEMs lower manufacturing cost and time to market, while providing competitive performance for multiband and multimode smartphones and tablets.

MagnaChip's 0.18um SOI RF CMOS technology uses thin-film silicon SOI on trap-rich high resistivity substrates for better performance than the standard SOI substrate. This technology also features a 2.5V switch FET delivering a highly competitive figure of merit of Ron*Coff/BVDSS of less than 60fs/V.

The company has teamed up with EEsof EDA at Keysight Technologies, a device modeling solution provider, to provide its customers with excellent RF CMOS model extraction, generation and verification technologies.