SMIC and Ansoft Address RF CMOS Design Requirements with On-Chip Spiral Inductor Library

SMIC and Ansoft Address RF CMOS Design Requirements with On-Chip Spiral Inductor Library

October 22, 2007

Electromagnetic Design Methodology (EMDM) Uses Full-wave 3D
Simulation to Compute Inductance and Quality Factor (Q) of
Spiral Inductors with Accuracy Traceable to the Foundry
Process

    SHENZHEN, Oct. 22 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Semiconductor
Manufacturing International Corporation ("SMIC",
NYSE: SMI and SEHK: 0981.HK) one of the leading foundries
in the world, and Ansoft Corporation (Nasdaq: ANST)
announced immediate availability of the industry's first
parameterized spiral inductor design kit based on full-wave
simulation. The kit enables RF CMOS designers to create and
simulate custom inductor geometries by directly linking
Ansoft's HFSS SMIC's CMOS process parameters. 

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    The spiral inductor kit is built upon SMIC's
Electromagnetic Design Methodology (EMDM) -- which allows
engineers to easily and accurately create any RF structure
-- and gives designers the flexibility to innovate new
geometries simply by editing parameters such as diameter,
number of turns, width and spacing of traces from a dialog
box in HFSS. Included in the kit are ready-to-solve, fully
parameterized HFSS projects for circular, square,
hexagonal, and octagonal coils in the regular, stacked,
transformer, and balanced configurations with all vias and
underpasses included. 
    "Spiral inductors with small form factors, high Q,
and high self-resonant frequencies are highly desired to
meet the need for greater portability, increased
functionality, and lower costs for today's communication
systems," said Dr. Lee Yang, head of RF Application
and Design Support in Marketing of SMIC. "Our
collaboration with Ansoft allows our customers to design,
simulate, and optimize spiral inductors on silicon
substrates, relieving a major bottleneck of the RF CMOS
design flow. Furthermore, we encouraged Ansoft to provide a
path to back annotate to backend layout tools, making it
very practical to innovate new designs and pass the results
to standard layout tools." 
    "SMIC continues to prove to be an excellent
partner for Ansoft as it is taking a leadership position in
terms of addressing RF designer requirements," said
Jack Qiu, Country Manager of China People Republic at
Ansoft. "Early on, SMIC recognized the advantages of
offering accurate electrical models for on-chip passive
components and worked with Ansoft to create a methodology
to streamline the process of incorporating the additional
accuracy provided directly in circuit simulation. Using
EMDM along with the new spiral inductor design kit,
customers can now compute the inductance and quality factor
(Q) for spiral inductors, rapidly develop a custom library
for their own requirements including proximity effects, and
utilize them directly in circuit and system simulation. EMDM
makes it practical to synthesize entirely new inductors and
rapidly back annotate this information into circuit
schematics and standard layout tools." 

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    About SMIC
    Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation
("SMIC"; NYSE: SMI; SEHK: 981) is one of the
leading semiconductor foundries in the world and the
largest and most advanced foundry in Mainland China,
providing integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing service at
0.35um to 90nm and finer line technologies.  Headquartered
in Shanghai, China, SMIC has a 300mm wafer fabrication
facility (fab) under pilot production and three 200mm wafer
fabs in its Shanghai mega-fab, two 300mm wafer fabs in its
Beijing mega-fab, a 200mm wafer fab in Tianjin, and an
in-house assembly and testing facility in Chengdu.  SMIC
also has customer service and marketing offices in the
U.S., Europe, and Japan, and a representative office in
Hong Kong.  In addition, SMIC manages and operates a 200mm
wafer fab in Chengdu owned by Cension Semiconductor
Manufacturing Corporation and a 300mm wafer fab under
construction in Wuhan owned by Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor
Manufacturing Corporation.  For more information, please
visit http://www.smics.com .

    About Ansoft
    Ansoft is a leading developer of high-performance
electronic design automation (EDA) software. Engineers use
Ansoft software to achieve first-pass system success when
designing mobile communication and Internet-access devices,
broadband networking components and systems, integrated
circuits (ICs), printed circuit boards (PCBs) and
electromechanical systems. Ansoft markets its products
worldwide through its own direct sales force and has
comprehensive customer-support and training offices
throughout North America, Asia and Europe. To learn more,
please visit http://www.ansoft.com .


    For more information, please contact:

     Ansoft:
      Mark Ravenstahl
      Tel:   [phone]
      Fax:   [phone]

     SMIC:
      Reiko Chang
      Corporate Relations
      Tel:   [phone] x10544
      Email: [e-mail]