austriamicrosystems Offers Additional 20V Devices For Its 0.35µm High-Voltage CMOS Process

austriamicrosystems announced the offering of its 0.35µm high-voltage CMOS technology H35 with an additional set of 20V NMOS and PMOS devices. The new extension allows the integration of 3.3, 5, 20, 50 and 120V devices on a single chip without any process changes.

The new thin-, mid- and thick oxide NMOS and PMOS devices with optimized area and very low Ron resistance as well as a new Metal-Insulator-Metal capacitor (MIMCAP) are said to make the 20V option a competitive solution for fabless design houses and IDMs developing power management products and display drivers for battery powered applications.

austriamicrosystems’ 0.35µm HV-CMOS technology is claimed to be the first purely CMOS based high-voltage process that matches BCD performance and chip sizes at much lower process complexity. It is based on the 0.35µm CMOS process transferred from TSMC. H35 offers fully scalable high-voltage NMOS and PMOS devices, floating logic libraries as well what is claimed to be a best-in-class power-on resistance. For its fully automotive and medical qualified H35 process, austriamicrosystems delivers its design environment ("HIT-Kit"), which comes complete with IO libraries, special utilities optimized for High-Voltage CMOS product design and characterized circuit simulation models.

"The extension of our 0.35µm high-voltage CMOS technology portfolio with this new 20V devices strengthens austriamicrosystems’ commitment to provide our customers with best-in-class analog semiconductor process technology, manufacturing and services" stated Thomas Riener, General Manager of austriamicrosystems’ Business Unit Full Service Foundry. "Our H35 technology platform now fully supports supply voltages from 3.3V, 5V, 20V, 50V and 120V on a single chip. Lowest process complexity in combination with area and performance optimized devices gives our customers an enormous competitive advantage in developing their products such as power management products and display drivers for battery powered applications."