Infineon’s cost-effective SOI technology for driver ICs helps major appliance designers meet stringent energy and reliability parameters. Infineon is using SOI to help tackle one of the biggest challenges faced by designers of major appliances like washing machines, refrigerators and air conditioners: motor control.

TI is using SOI in key high-voltage, high-current and high-frequency analog components. The real world is analog. Things like temperature, sound, light, pressure, speed – for this analog data to be integrated into digital systems, it has to be converted. But because the requirements vary enormously among the different analog functions and various systems where …

The PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 CPU design teams all chose SOI. Here’s why. Design challenges (Read the Cell overview paper by Kahle et al on the IBM website) Achieve 100 times the PlayStation®2 performance. Joint developers IBM, Sony Group and Toshiba needed to co-optimize the chip area, design frequency, and product operating voltage, creating …

Already the world’s smallest RFID chip, SOI makes the next generation far thinner than a piece of paper – while radically increasing productivity. The next generation of Hitachi’s µ-chip (mu-chip) is poised to make a major impact on the RFID (radio frequency identification) world. Presented at the IEEE conference in February 2006, this latest version …

A lead developer of Hitachi’s µ-chip explains the SOI benefits. By using SOI, we could make an ultra-small RFID chip. In particular, its excellent isolation capability enabled successful miniaturization of the analog circuits in the front-end of the part. Also, BOX (Buried OXide) acts as an etch-stop layer in the self-controlled process, resulting in an …

Nick Kepler, vice president of logic technology development at AMD talks about the role of SOI in the company’s strategy. Advanced Substrate News: How important is SOI to your strategy? Nick Kepler: SOI is an important part of AMD’s product strategy. We are currently utilizing it for our entire line of 90nm AMD64 products. AMD …

Honeywell has sent SOI by Jupiter and to Mars. Now its SOI rad-hard foundry services are charting new frontiers with the industry’s first 150 nm rad-hard, digital ASIC solutions and more. Honeywell’s path runs parallel to commercial markets. Chips destined for space are increasingly facing the same performance vs. power issues of chips we find …

Honeywell has worked with the top EDA tool vendors to develop the SOI process design kits (PDKs) needed by both in-house designers and foundry customers. Rick Veres, Honeywell EDA Manager, explains. ASIC Design With Pilot Flow For digital rad-hard ASIC design, we worked with Synopsys to adapt the Pilot Design Environment to our process. The …

Fabless Via leverages IBM’s 90nm SOI process. A leader in the fabless world, Via Technologies has launched its new, fanless 90-nm SOI Via-Eden™ and Eden™ ULV (Ultra Low Voltage) processors, specifically targeted at business, industrial and commercial applications such as thin clients, silent desktops, IPCs and set top boxes where ultra cool, ultra quiet, reliable …

Philips is building more and more high voltage/power products on SOI. Here’s why. Since the 1990’s, Philips has been and continues to be a pioneer in SOI-based high-power and high-voltage ICs (handling anywhere from 12 to 800 volts). Now these chips are everywhere. They’re in smaller, lighter power modules and battery-chargers for a whole host …