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Germany-Based Micronas GmbH Licenses 0.25um CMOS Technology from IMEC

18 December 2000

Germany-Based Micronas GmbH Licenses 0.25um CMOS Technology from IMEC

    LEUVEN, Belgium--Dec. 15, 2000--IMEC has licensed its 0.25-micron CMOS technology to Micronas GmbH. This 0.25-micron CMOS technology includes both the standard digital CMOS as well as the analog modules including double poly devices. This high-performance CMOS technology employs STI for device isolation, CoSi2 salicided schemes, thin-gate dielectrics and nitride spacers. The back-end is an Al- and W-plug based full CMP multilevel technology.
    This 0.25-micron technology will be the next technology for the future generation high-performance full-custom mixed-signal products of Micronas manufactured at Freiburg, Germany. Target application areas are high-performance consumer audio and video, multimedia, as well as automotive.
    Underlining the significance of the license agreement between IMEC and Micronas, Professor Gilbert Declerck, president and CEO of IMEC noted, "This agreement, as well as other technology transfer agreements IMEC has signed with other industrial partners, shows that IMEC is able to provide adequate solutions to the industrial world of microelectronics, and does play an important role also as a source of knowledge and know-how for the European microelectronics industry."

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