MagnaChip Offers 0.13 micron BCD process for automotive power devices
Korea-based designer and manufacturer, MagnaChip Semiconductor will offer a 0.13 micron bipolar CMOS DMOS (BCD) process. Its aim, says the analogue and mixed-signal device specialist, is to help automotive power semiconductor designers build more competitive products.
BCD process technology combines three process technologies in a single chip. It has bipolar for analogue signal control and complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) and double diffused metal oxide semiconductor (DMOS) for digital signal control and high-power handling.
The MagnaChip process has been certified as Grade-1 under AEC-Q100, which deems it suitable for diverse automotive power semiconductors including motor driver ICs, battery management systems (BMSs) and DC/DC ICs.
The multi-time programming (MTP) intellectual property (IP) applied to this enhanced 0.13 micron BCD process technology enables a chip to be reprogrammed at least 1,000 times. This is a desirable feature for power semiconductors that require repeatable memory programming, such as motor driver ICs, power management ICs and level shifter ICs. According to MagnaChip, unlike the previous 0.13 micron BCD process technology, which requires additional photo layers to realise MTP IPs, this 0.13 micron BCD process does not require additional photo layers as a result of IP design optimisation. With no additional layers, MagnaChip’s 0.13 micron BCD process could allow its customers to reduce cost and shorten time-to-market.
MagnaChip Semiconductor designs and manufactures analogue and mixed-signal semiconductor platform solutions for communications, IoT, consumer, industrial and automotive applications. The company’s Standard Products Group and Foundry Services Group provide a range of standard products and manufacturing services to customers worldwide. MagnaChip owns a portfolio of approximately 3,000 registered patents and pending applications, and has extensive engineering, design and manufacturing process expertise.
