SMIC and Cascade Microtech Partner to Establish New Mixed-signal RFIC Design Service Lab in Shanghai
March 23 2007 - 6:46PM
PR Newswire (US)
Cascade Microtech's industry-leading 300mm wafer-level RF test
systems chosen by SMIC to enable the next generation of wireless
ICs SHANGHAI, China and BEAVERTON, Ore., March 23
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Semiconductor Manufacturing International
Corporation (SMIC) today announced its partnership with Cascade
Microtech (NASDAQ:CSCD) to provide Chinese RF design engineers
immediate access to state-of-the-art RF wafer-level test services
for the development of advanced RFICs (radio-frequency integrated
circuits). SMIC has opened a new Design Service Open Lab in
Shanghai to support mixed-signal RFIC development. Cascade
Microtech and SMIC share the goal of offering open lab services to
foster the development of advanced wireless RFICs in China. "There
are numerous challenges designers face when developing mixed-signal
RFICs in higher frequencies at geometries below 90nm," said Lee
Yang, Ph.D. and Fellow, SMIC Design Service, Shanghai. "We chose
the combined Cascade Microtech and Agilent Technologies wafer
prober test system to provide the Chinese design market with the
world's best expertise for wafer-level metrology." "By creating
this design center specifically for mixed-signal RFICs, we will
bring unprecedented knowledge and expertise to this very important
and rapidly growing market," said Tariq Alam, director of
Asia-Pacific operations, Cascade Microtech. "We are pleased to work
in collaboration with SMIC and Cascade Microtech to develop
cutting-edge test services for China," said Kevin Pan, field
engineer, Agilent Technologies, Electronic Measurement Group. "It
is Agilent's strategic intent to work with the leading research
entities in order to facilitate innovation." With this
collaboration, RF designers in greater China will have access to
the latest wafer-level RF testing technology. The lab will be
equipped with high-performance, high-frequency measurement
instrumentation, including Cascade Microtech's S300 300mm probe
station and M150 150mm probe station, plus state-of-the-art RF
probes. The probe stations are coupled with Agilent Technologies'
PNA Series E8363D vector network analyzer -- capable of handling
300mm wafers with frequencies up to 67 GHz. The lab will enable
research groups to perform precise electrical measurements on ICs
directly on-wafer and will be fully supported by applications
personnel. As part of their joint effort, both companies will offer
application training and workshops. About SMIC SMIC
(NYSE:SMI)(SEHK:0981.HK) is one of the leading semiconductor
foundries in the world and the largest and most advanced foundry in
mainland China, providing integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing
service at 0.35um to 90 nanometers and finer line technologies.
Headquartered in Shanghai, China, SMIC operates three 200mm fabs in
Shanghai and one in Tianjin, and one 300mm fab in Beijing, the
first of its kind in mainland China. SMIC has customer service and
marketing offices in the U.S., Italy, and Japan as well as a
representative office in Hong Kong. For additional information,
please visit http://www.smics.com/ About Cascade Microtech Cascade
Microtech, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCD) is a worldwide leader in the precise
electrical measurement and test of integrated circuits (ICs) and
other small structures. For technology businesses and scientific
institutions who need to evaluate small structures, Cascade
Microtech delivers access to, and extraction of, electrical data
from wafers, integrated circuits (ICs), IC packages, circuit boards
and modules, MEMS, biological structures, electro- optic devices
and more. Cascade Microtech's highly reliable production wafer test
solutions provide the semiconductor industry with leading-edge
probe cards that reduce manufacturing costs of complex
semiconductors. Information about Cascade Microtech can be found on
the Web at http://www.cascademicrotech.com/. DATASOURCE: Cascade
Microtech, Inc. CONTACT: Debra Seifert of McClenahan Bruer
Communications, +1-503-546-1000, or , for Cascade Microtech, Inc.;
or Junko Nakaya of Cascade Microtech, Inc., +1-503-601-1180, or Web
site: http://www.cascademicrotech.com/
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