Peregrine Introduces UltraCMOS® 10 Technology and Advances the Future of RF Design with a Comprehensive SOI Solution
29 Octubre 2013 - 7:15AM
Business Wire
New Generation of UltraCMOS Technology Delivers
Significant First Step in Solving the Challenges Encountered in RF
Front-End Integration Design
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: PSMI), founder of RF SOI
(silicon on insulator) and pioneer of advanced RF solutions,
announces the UltraCMOS 10 platform, the newest advancement in
Peregrine’s UltraCMOS technology. UltraCMOS 10 RF SOI delivers both
flexibility and unparalleled performance for addressing the
ever-increasing challenges of RF front-end design. It offers the
performance of UltraCMOS technology with the economies of SOI, and
it delivers a more than 50-percent performance improvement over
comparable solutions.
Peregrine Semiconductor's new UltraCMOS
10 technology platform delivers a more than 50-percent performance
improvement over comparable solutions. UltraCMOS 10 technology
gives smartphone manufacturers unparalleled flexibility and value
without compromising quality for devices ranging from 3G through
LTE networks. (Photo: Business Wire)
Peregrine’s versatile, new 130 nm UltraCMOS 10 technology
delivers the support needed for the latest generation of
LTE-Advanced smartphones and, for the first time, will allow the
company to deliver cost-competitive products for 3G
smartphones.
Peregrine is enhancing a long-term relationship and leveraging a
new one for the UltraCMOS 10 introduction – Soitec’s breakthrough
semiconductor materials coupled with tier-one fab GLOBALFOUNDARIES’
custom fabrication flow. Paul Boudre, COO at Soitec says, “We are
very pleased that Soitec’s revolutionary-engineered semiconductor
materials support Peregrine’s next-generation UltraCMOS 10
technology.”
Ajit Manocha, CEO at GLOBALFOUNDRIES describes the collaboration
with Peregrine as follows: “GLOBALFOUNDRIES seeks partnerships with
leaders in their market categories, and we are delighted the
opportunity arose to work with Peregrine Semiconductor. Together,
we co-developed a custom flow to help make Peregrine’s new
UltraCMOS 10 generation a truly cutting-edge advance in RF
SOI.”
Smartphone manufacturers face a number of tough design
challenges, including balancing performance requirements with cost
and maintaining consumers’ signal quality and data-rate speeds
despite the increasing number of frequency bands and volume of
data. Mobile Experts’ Principal Analyst of Radio Access and RF
Semiconductors Joe Madden offers his perspective on the challenges
and growth curve of the smartphone market by stating, “The iPhone
5S has more than double the frequency bands than the iPhone 5, and
this is just one example of how dramatically the requirements for
smartphone components are increasing. LTE units are expected to
grow from 150 million in 2012 to 1.2 billion in 2018 (42 percent
CAGR).” Peregrine’s UltraCMOS 10 technology will outpace these
increasing performance needs so consumers will continue to see
improved connectivity.
The UltraCMOS 10 130 nm generation delivers the industry’s best
RON COFF performance and enables improved performance and scaling.
The RON COFF figure of merit is a ratio of how much loss occurs
when a radio signal goes through a switch in its ON state (RON, or
on-resistance) and how much the radio signal leaks through the
capacitor in its OFF state (COFF, or off capacitance). The RON COFF
performance metric for UltraCMOS 10 technology is 113 fsec. This is
a five-fold improvement over the first generation released by
Peregrine 10 years ago. It represents Peregrine’s expertise in
using best-in-class engineering methodologies and materials to
lower insertion loss without sacrificing isolation performance. In
addition to improved RON COFF performance, UltraCMOS 10 platform
leverages Peregrine’s patented design technology, which delivers
linearity of more than 75 dBm at 900 MHz and equates to higher data
rates and improved co-existence for consumers.
Jim Cable, CEO at Peregrine Semiconductor, sums up Peregrine’s
latest milestone as follows: “Peregrine is applying 25 years of RF
SOI knowledge to deliver the market’s highest level of integration
for RF front-end design capability. UltraCMOS 10 technology offers
the industry’s highest performance at a competitive cost. The
platform reinforces Peregrine’s commitment to continual innovation
and honors our legacy of delivering the very best solutions for our
customers.”
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Peregrine Semiconductor (NASDAQ: PSMI), founder of RF SOI
(silicon on insulator), is a leading fabless provider of
high-performance, integrated RF solutions. Since 1988 Peregrine has
been perfecting UltraCMOS® technology – a patented, advanced form
of SOI – to deliver the performance edge needed to solve the RF
market’s biggest challenges, such as linearity. With products that
deliver best-in-class performance and monolithic integration,
Peregrine is the trusted choice for market leaders in automotive,
broadband, industrial, Internet of Things, military, mobile
devices, smartphones, space, test-and-measurement equipment and
wireless infrastructure. Peregrine holds more than 150 filed and
pending patents and has shipped 2 billion UltraCMOS units. For more
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