Jazz Semiconductor, Inc., a Tower Group Company providing Analog-Intensive Mixed-Signal (AIMS) foundry solutions, has announced that Ubidyne, a company developing digital radio technology for the wireless industry, has selected its 0.18-micron SiGe BiCMOS (SBC18HXL) process.
Ubidyne will deploy the process in its uB Universal Micro-radio, the world’s first pure digital antenna embedded radio system for wireless communications.
The company has developed a technology that significantly improves the operating economics of wireless networks, reducing energy consumption, enabling simple, flexible deployment, and increasing the coverage and capacity of mobile communications networks.
uB Universal Digital Micro-radios by Ubidyne eliminate the need for remote electrical tilt motors, large power amplifiers and bulky coaxial feeders by embedding directly into the antenna housing, to provide the highest level of integration and radio performance. The radios also enable mobile infrastructure equipment vendors worldwide to significantly improve performance, flexibility and coverage.
Through its patent pending technology, Ubidyne has developed an all-digital distributed architecture comprised of unique algorithms and proprietary ASICs. The architecture enables efficient, standards agnostic wideband transmission and reception.
Jazz Semiconductor has developed a 0.18-micron SiGe BiCMOS process (SBC18HXL), which enables high-speed networking and millimeter wave applications through high-performance 0.18-micron SiGe bipolar and high-quality passive elements combined with high density 0.18-micron CMOS. It also provides SiGe transistors with peak Ft of 155GHz and peak Fmax of 200GHz ideal for low-power, high-performance millimeter wave and OC-192 and OC-768 circuits.
SBC18HXL features a number of advanced facilities, such as three bipolar (NPN) transistor types, 1.8 and 3.3 volt CMOS (dual-gate), deep trench isolation, lateral and vertical PNP transistors, MIM capacitors, and high-performance varactors.
Also, the process is equipped with poly-silicon as well as metal and Nwell resistors, high-Q inductors, a triple well option, and six layers of metal.
Mike Levis, chief operating officer of Ubidyne said that the company is revolutionizing the industry with the development of a superior alternative to traditional radio platforms that is both cost-effective and efficient.
Levis noted that by utilizing Jazz’s SiGe BiCMOS process, Ubidyne is able to significantly improve performance for its latest micro-radio technology.
Arvind Arora is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Arvind's articles, please visit his columnist page.Edited by
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