TowerJazz Announces New Foundry Silicon Photonic (SiPho) Process Targeting Optical Transceiver Electronics Market
March 23 2017 - 7:38AM
TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader,
announced today a new silicon photonic process (SiPho) which
complements its SiGe BiCMOS processes utilized for the manufacture
of optical transceiver electronics. Further, TowerJazz is
collaborating with PhoeniX Software to provide process design kits
(PDKs) for its customers who are developing optical networking and
data center interconnects applications. Silicon photonics holds the
potential to become a cost-effective, scalable technology for the
production of photonic integrated circuits and addresses the
high-performance requirements of these applications.
TowerJazz’s foundry SiPho process offering is
built to enable a wide range of optical fiber interconnect Tx and
Rx front-end optical ICs. The process includes several
versions of single-mode silicon waveguides, high speed germanium
photodetectors, p-n junction modulators and enablement for edge and
grating couplers.
PhoeniX Software’s award winning PIC design
solution, OptoDesigner 5.1, uses a unique process known as photonic
synthesis to map design intent into a design-rule clean circuit
layout targeted to the TowerJazz SiPho process. Designers can
use OptoDesigner’s parametric object oriented scripting environment
and its integrated photonic simulators to optimize their designs to
achieve an optimal layout that meets their performance and design
requirements while also ensuring robust design
manufacturability.
“We are excited to be entering the silicon
photonics foundry space in order to provide solutions to a greater
portion of the optical transceiver market for our customers,” said
Dr. Marco Racanelli, Sr. Vice President and General Manager of RF
& High Performance Analog Business Unit, TowerJazz. “As a
pure-play foundry, design enablement plays a critical and
complementary role to the manufacturing process and we are excited
to have partnered with PhoeniX Software which has extensive
experience in the silicon photonics space to bring high-value PDKs
to our customers.”
“PDK-based design is key to achieving greater
designer productivity and we are very excited to be working with
TowerJazz to make their SiGe BiCMOS PDKs available to the datacom
market”, said Twan Korthorst, CEO of PhoeniX Software. “We
are especially pleased to be working with TowerJazz as they offer
world-class production capabilities to our mutual customers in the
integrated photonics market.”
AvailabilitySiPho PDKs for TowerJazz’ SiPho
process will be available Q3 2017. Please contact
info@towerjazz.com more information.
TowerJazz and PhoeniX will be exhibiting at OFC,
March 20-23, 2017 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in booth
#3824 and booth #3538 respectively.
About TowerJazzTower Semiconductor Ltd.
(NASDAQ:TSEM) (TASE:TSEM) and its fully owned U.S. subsidiaries
Jazz Semiconductor, Inc. and TowerJazz Texas Inc., operate
collectively under the brand name TowerJazz, the global specialty
foundry leader. TowerJazz manufactures integrated circuits,
offering a broad range of customizable process technologies
including: SiGe, BiCMOS, mixed-signal/CMOS, RF CMOS, CMOS image
sensor, integrated power management (BCD and 700V), and MEMS.
TowerJazz also provides a world-class design enablement platform
for a quick and accurate design cycle as well as Transfer
Optimization and development Process Services (TOPS) to IDMs and
fabless companies that need to expand capacity.
To provide multi-fab sourcing and extended
capacity for its customers, TowerJazz operates two manufacturing
facilities in Israel (150mm and 200mm), two in the U.S. (200mm) and
three additional facilities in Japan (two 200mm and one 300mm)
through TowerJazz Panasonic Semiconductor Co.
(TPSCo), established with Panasonic Corporation of which
TowerJazz has the majority holding. Through TPSCo, TowerJazz
provides leading edge 45nm CMOS, 65nm RF CMOS and 65nm 1.12um pixel
technologies, including the most advanced image sensor
technologies. For more information, please visit www.towerjazz.com
or www.tpsemico.com.
Safe Harbor Regarding Forward-Looking
StatementsThis press release includes forward-looking
statements, which are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual
results may vary from those projected or implied by such
forward-looking statements. A complete discussion of risks and
uncertainties that may affect the accuracy of forward-looking
statements included in this press release or which may otherwise
affect TowerJazz’s business is included under the heading "Risk
Factors" in Tower’s most recent filings on Forms 20-F, F-3, F-4 and
6-K, as were filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“SEC”) and the Israel Securities Authority and Jazz’s most recent
filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, as were filed with the SEC,
respectively. Tower and Jazz do not intend to update, and expressly
disclaim any obligation to update, the information contained in
this release.
TowerJazz US Company Contact: Lauri Julian |
+1-949-280-5602 | lauri.julian@towerjazz.com TowerJazz
Investor Relations Contact: Noit Levi | +972-4-604-7066 |
noit.levi@towerjazz.com
Press release (PDF):
http://hugin.info/167229/R/2090018/789150.pdf
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