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AWR Announces New Process Design Kit (PDK) for Cree GaN HEMT MMIC Foundry
AWR Corporation announced the release and immediate availability of a new process design kit (PDK) supporting the Cree, Inc. high-power gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) foundry process
AWR Corporation, the innovation leader in high- frequency electronic design automation (EDA), announced today the release and immediate availability of a new process design kit (PDK) supporting the Cree, Inc. high-power gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) foundry process. The new Cree/AWR PDK enables MMIC designers to model Cree’s GaN HEMT MMIC process within AWR’s Microwave Office software environment and enable the design of MMICs that offer more power bandwidth, higher efficiency, and a smaller footprint than can be achieved using conventional technologies such as GaAs.
The Cree GaN HEMT MMIC process features high power density (4-6 watts/mm) transistors, slot vias, and high reliability (up to 225ºC operating channel temperatures), as well as scalable transistors. In addition, the Cree/AWR PDK leverages AWR’s Intelligent Net (iNet™) automated interconnect construction technology to automatically radius and fillet corners when connecting different parts together, thereby ensuring design-rule-check (DRC)-compliant layouts and eliminating the need for manual editing. The Cree/AWR PDK is also setup for ready electromagnetic (EM) extraction through AWR’s EXTRACT technology, which can save designers’ time by not having to manually edit schematics for EM results.
Availability
The Cree/AWR PDK for GaN HEMT MMIC process is available now. Contact your local Cree representative to obtain this PDK and/or for more information.
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Lumileds Leads Industry with LUXEON Rebel Color LEDs
Light output increases and lower forward voltages address customer needs for higher performance and efficacy at 350 mA and 700 mA.
Philips Lumileds has increased the light output specifications and top performance bins for virtually every color of LUXEON Rebel LED manufactured. In addition, significantly lower forward voltage for red and red-orange emitters results in very high efficacy LEDs which is critical as lighting engineers strive to reduce luminaire energy consumption.
“The demand for colored power LEDs continues to grow,“ said Frank Harder, VP Marketing LUXEON Product Lines at Philips Lumileds. “Across the globe, applications for city beautification, architectural lighting, entertainment, traffic, and signaling, are increasingly in demand. Our position as a manufacturer of all colors allows us to support our customers with a portfolio that’s efficient, delivers high light output, is extremely reliable, and is cost effective in lumens per Watt and lumens per dollar for a wide variety of solutions.”
The company’s red and red-orange LUXEON Rebel LEDs now generate 40% more light and are 50% more efficient. Its blue LEDs have the best hot/cold factor which delivers superior in-application results and delivers leading lumens per Watt. Royal Blue, which is often used in remote phosphor applications and is the base for white LEDs, typically delivers 875 mW at 700 mA
In addition to the standard color portfolio, Philips Lumileds offers its unique LUXEON Rebel PC Amber LED. With 4-5 times more light output than conventional AlInGaP LEDs and superior thermal and color stability performance, LUXEON Rebel PC Amber is in a performance class of its own says
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