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Advanced Wireless chooses Mentor Graphics GaAs IC analysis tool
Finisar achieves record quarterly revenues
The manufacturer of III-V subsystems and components for fibre optic communications is celebrating its latest results
Finisar Corporation has announced financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended July 28th, 2013.
“I am pleased to report first quarter revenues were $266.1 million, an all-time record for Finisar. This was an increase of $22.7 million, or 9.3 percent, over the prior quarter and an increase of $45.5 million, or 20.7 percent over the first quarter of the prior year. Revenues exceeded the guidance of $245 million to $260 million that we provided early in the first quarter and grew for the fourth consecutive quarter,” said Jerry Rawls, Finisar’s executive Chairman of the Board.
He added, “The growth in revenues in the first quarter came primarily from increased sales of 10G, 40G and 100G Ethernet transceivers for datacom applications. As a result of these higher than expected revenues, a favourable product mix and operating leverage, we also were able to achieve gross margin and earnings per diluted share that exceeded our original guidance range,”
“During the quarter, we continued to invest significantly in technology and product development. Our new products for 100 gigabit parallel and serial applications for either single mode and multi mode fiber applications continue to have strong customer demand. We also expect our new platform of high density dual and single WSS will extend our leadership in the WSS market in both the component and ROADM linecard form,” said Eitan Gertel, Finisar’s Chief Executive Officer.
Business Outlook
The company indicated that it currently expects revenues for the second quarter of fiscal 2014 to be in the range of $277 to $292 million and GAAP operating margin to be in the range of approximately 9.7 percent to 10.7 percent.
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www.compoundsemiconductor.net October 2013
Mentor’s platform for the verification of gallium arsenide ICs will be used to analyse mobile and other wireless applications
Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company (AWSC) has selected Mentor Graphics’ Calibre nmDRC and nmLVS products.
As part of its foundry offering, AWSC will provide the Calibre design rule decks to its customers to help them ensure their designs are error-free and meet all foundry requirements before submitting them to AWSC manufacturing.
“We moved to Calibre for our new offerings to take advantage of its highly efficient commands and unique capabilities not available in other products, such as equation-based DRC, which makes it easier to implement complex design rules for RF applications,” says Louis Lu, manager of product development engineering at AWSC.
He adds, “Calibre is widely used by our fastest growing customers, and it works seamlessly in any of the design flows our customers use, including the Agilent ADS custom RF design platform. Also very important in our decision is the high level of product support and application knowledge we receive from Mentor.”
“We’re pleased to see the adoption of Calibre for state- of-the-art RF ICs such as those fabricated by AWSC,” says Shu-Wen Chang, director of Calibre Foundry Programs at Mentor Graphics. “AWSC’s adoption of Calibre for advanced GaAs ICs for RF applications is part of a growing worldwide trend to use the most advanced Calibre technologies for larger feature size applications. Our mutual customers are pushing much more complex designs through processes initially developed for simpler geometric data, particularly in mobile applications (e.g. smart phones, tablets, etc.) where AMS/RF processes are increasingly important.”
One example of advanced features being used by AWS is the Calibre nmDRC product’s equation-based DRC (eqDRC) facility, which fills the void between traditional DRC and DFM process simulators. Some design rules are simply too complex to capture with traditional DRC
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