TowerJazz and Tanner EDA Announce Process Design Kit (PDK) Collaboration for Power Management Device Design

TowerJazz and Tanner EDA today announced a joint initiative to develop Process Design Kits (PDKs) for analog/mixed-signal (A/MS) designers using Tanner EDA's HiPer Silicon(TM) software. This collaboration gives Tanner EDA customers access to TowerJazz's innovative 0.18- and 0.35-micron power management process platform and TowerJazz customers access to Tanner EDA's A/MS tools for a complete IC design solution.

Tanner EDA offers a perfect blend of price-performance, flexibility and interoperability that addresses the needs of our analog/mixed-signal IC design customers, stated Ori Galzur, VP, VLSI Design Center for Tower Semiconductor. By working with EDA vendors such as Tanner EDA, we can provide our mutual customers with an advanced power management platform and customized design capabilities to achieve more predictable designs. This collaboration will enable customers to decrease design cycle time and achieve a time-to-market advantage for their high performance and differentiated power management solutions.

From my power management design experience, the key to first pass success and quicker design cycles is a consistent design environment. Combining TowerJazz's advanced power management platform with Tanner EDA's specialized IC design tools will provide this to the industry, said Marijana Vukicevic, Senior Analyst, Power Management at iSuppli.