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Foundry Partner TowerJazz - Amol Kalburge

Tower Semiconductor Provides PDKs for Keysight ADS — Amol Kalburge, Tower Semiconductor's Senior Director of Strategic Marketing RF Business Unit, discusses how Tower Semiconductor partners with Keysight Technologies.

Process Design Kits (PDKs) are directly available for download at the Tower Semiconductor Customer Portal. If you are not yet a registered Tower Semiconductor customer, please go to https://www.towersemi.com

ADS/Virtuoso Interoperable PDKs:

Process
Name
 		 Process
Description
 		 ADS
 		 Schematic/
Layout
 		 RFPro/Momentum
 		 ADS ElectronThermal Base PDK
Version
 		 ADS Patch Version
SBC18QE1 0.18µm SiGe BiCMOS PA technology 2019+ S Y   v1.0.3 & above v1.3
SBC18HA 1st generation 0.18µm SiGe BiCMOS, FT 150 GHz 2019+ S Y   v2.0 & above
 v1.3
SBC18H3 3rd generation 0.18µm SiGe BiCMOS FT 240 GHz 2023+ S/L Y   v4.0.2 & above v4.0
SBC18M3 3rd generation 0.18µm SiGe BiCMOS FT 240 GHz
 2019+ S Y   v3.4.6 & above v2.0
CS18 (AI) 0.18µm Thin-film SOI RF CMOS, 1.2V/2.5V FETs 2019+ S Y   v6.0.3 & above v1.5
CS18 (Cu) 0.18µm Thin-film SOI RF CMOS, 1.2V/2.5V FETs 2019+ S Y   v6.9.1 & above v2.3
CS18QT10 0.18µm Thin-film SOI RF CMOS 2023+ Dynamic Link Only Y Y v.1.0.1 & above N.A.
SBC18QC2 0.18µm SiGe BiCMOS Cu-PA technology 2022+ S Y Y v2.3.8 & above v2.2
SBC18H5 0.18µm SiGe BiCMOS FT 300 GHz 2023+ S Y   v2.0.9 & above v3.1
SBC13 0.13µm SiGe BiCMOS 2019+ S/L Y   v3.3.6 & above v2.4

 

Tcl & Python Interoperable PDKs (iPDK):

Process
Name
 		 Process
Description
 		 ADS
 		 Schematic/
Layout
 		 RFPro/Momentum
 		 Base PDK
Version
 		 ADS Patch Version
SBC18H5 0.18µm SiGe BiCMOS FT 300 GHz 2019+ S/L Y v2.0.5 & above v3.0