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(pressebox) Landshut, 27.04.2009, LFoundry, a leading analog/mixed-signal foundry, announced today the availability of LFoundry?s 0.15 micron high-performance analog/mixed-signal and RF Process Design Kit (PDK), supporting the complete list of design advancements available in Cadence® Virtuoso IC61 custom design platform. The PDK not only provides customers access to a unique modular analog/mixed-signal design and manufacturing environment but with its superior RF characteristic it also offers advantages to customers designing products for high frequency operations with a performance up to 15 GHz and beyond.

To accelerate the IC design process and improve their customers? productivity, LFoundry based its PDK on the latest Cadence Virtuoso technologies IC 6.1.3 and MMSIM 7.1 (Multi-Mode Simulation). Ensuring silicon accurate analog designs and to guarantee a maximal throughput during verification, LFoundry included parallel simulators such as Virtuoso APS, and Fast SPICE Simulator UltraSim. In addition to support for the industry standard custom layout features, the PDK also supports advanced interactive and automation technologies such as design rule driven design, Virtuoso XL, and Virtuoso Space-based Router (VSR) to provide additional productivity gains for layout designers.
For the physical verification and final manufacturability sign-off, LFoundry deployed Cadence Assura which includes design rule check and layout vs. schematic verification and QRC for the parasitic , extraction, all to enable its customers to achieve first time right silicon.

?For the development of this state-of-art PDK it was extremely important for us to support the most advanced technologies available on the market in order to help improve our customers? productivity,? said Michael Lehnert CEO of LFoundry. ?We will continue to support Cadence?s tools for further enhancements of this PDK including RF and HV (high voltage) features to be released in the next months.?

LFoundry announced last February, a monthly Multi Project Wafer (MPW) service to enable their customer low cost access to the market with special incentives to selected customers requesting participation on the MPW services through to July 2009.Über Cluster Mikrosystemtechnik

Landshut Silicon Foundry GmbH, doing business as LFoundry is a leading analog mixed signal foundry with an advanced 200 mm production line in Europe. Based in Landshut, Germany, LFoundry is focused on providing access to the most advanced analog manufacturing service with innovative extensions, a strong emphasis on flexibility and customer partnership.

LFoundry is also supporting a large portfolio of process-proven libraries, IP, design tools and reference flows, also for low volumes, with a flexible approach to the customer requirements. With superior support during the design phase, high-end tools and experienced engineers, LFoundry is an attractive analog foundry partner, particularly for fabless design houses.

LFoundry is Member of the Micro Systems Technology Cluster, Landshut.

Linking enterprises with the reserach centres of the Universities of Applied Sciences is the core task of the Micro Systems Technology Cluster. We are a competent, neutral and independent coordinator specialising in the support of SMEs in order to sustainably strengthen their competitiveness and innovative power by cross-diciplinal cooperation.

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