GlobalFoundries' new ecosystem partner program, called RFwave™, aims to simplify RF design and help customers reduce time-to-market for a new era of wireless devices and networks (read the full press release here). The program aims to give designers a low-risk, cost-effective path to highly optimized solutions that leverage GF's platforms including RF on FD-SOI and RF-SOI. The target is wireless applications such as IoT across various wireless connectivity and cellular standards, standalone or transceiver integrated 5G front end modules, mmWave backhaul, automotive radar, small cell and fixed wireless and satellite broadband.
As such, the RFwave™ partner program provides GF customers with IP design elements, EDA tools, design consultation and services and OSAT product packaging and test solutions. These products and services are validated, and comprise a plug-and-play catalog of design solutions. With this level of integration, GF customers can create high-performance designs while minimizing development costs.
Bami Bastani, senior vice president of GF’S RF Business Unit, says, “As a leader in RF, GF’s RFwave program takes industry collaboration to a new level, enabling our customers to build differentiated, highly integrated RF-tailored solutions that are designed to accelerate the next wave of technology.”
Initial members of the RFwave Partner Program are: asicNorth, Cadence, CoreHW, CWS, Keysight Technologies, Spectral Design, and WEASIC.
