Jazz Semiconductor, Inc., a Tower Group Company (NASDAQ:TSEM)(TASE:TSEM), today announced its pioneering Reliability Modeling Tool (RMT), offered free to its customers through its eBizz Web portal. The tool is critical for high reliability applications in aerospace, defense, automotive and medical markets. It allows designers to predict device degradation over the lifetime of the product, identify the vulnerable sub-systems related to device “aging,” and make design tradeoffs between operating lifetime and performance. In effect, the RMT reduces design spins or the product development time required for higher reliability systems. The RMT integrates into the existing Jazz design flow without the need to purchase any additional simulation tools, and is currently supported in Jazz’s 0.18-micron SiGe BiCMOS platform.
The RMT supplements an extensive design enablement infrastructure already in place at Jazz and underscores the company’s continued efforts to provide its customers with an analog and RF design environment that improves design optimization and reduces time-to-market. Jazz currently offers Monte Carlo statistical and PCM based models for its processes as well as fully scalable models and robust physical design tools for up front design optimization. This infrastructure used during the design phase, coupled with the RMT, allows circuit designers to truly design high-yielding and high-performance circuits capable of operating reliably for extended operating lifetimes.