Foundry Services

Why TriQuint?

With TriQuint you get much more than a wafer. We offer customers the industry’s largest technology portfolio, GaAs manufacturing expertise and unprecedented levels of support.

Technology: Industry’s Largest In-House Technology Portfolio
TriQuint’s advanced technology portfolio includes integrated passives, pHEMT, HBT, BiHEMT, GaN, and Cu bumps for flip chip packaging, enabling the smallest most cost-effective RF module solutions in the industry. TriQuint offers competitive high-volume manufacturing costs.

Trust: Expertise & Experience
TriQuint is the world's leading GaAs foundry supplier. We have an established record of delivering world-class manufacturing for innovative applications. We have dual-source manufacturing capacity and offer corporate support to ensure the volumes and deliveries you need.

Support: Tools for Success
TriQuint provides broad support services to ensure the highest levels of customer success with our foundry processes.

Get Training

As part of our commitment to deliver superior support services and help customers maximize their investment in TriQuint’s foundry services, TriQuint is pleased to offer training customized to your needs. Taught by TriQuint's expert staff, customized training benefits both new and existing customers. New customers can shorten the learning curve and quickly be successful. Existing customers can learn about our latest technology developments. Whether you need an introduction to GaAs or you are an experienced designer that needs a technical update, we can accommodate your requirements.

The course can be customized but generally covers the following topics:

• Introduction of process technologies
• Process selection
• RFIC design flow
• Active circuit elements
• Passive circuit elements
• Biasing & decoupling MESFET & pHEMT
• Biasing & decoupling HBT
• IC packaging for wireless applications
• TriQuint's reliability philosophy
• Designing for ESD resistance

For more information about training for your company, please contact us.

Design Resources

Do you need additional design support or specialized RF design expertise to augment your development team? We've worked with a variety of 3rd party design companies around the globe and across different end markets. The following is a list of companies familiar with TriQuint's process technologies and design tools. They'd like to connect with you.

CMDS Inc. (Westford, MA) is a design consulting company engaged in the development of high frequency integrated circuits. With over 25 years of design experience, CMDS has been a leader in developing innovative circuits for many commercial and military applications that include cellular infrastructure, consumer electronics, WLAN, VSAT, point-to-point radios and phased-array radar.

IMST (Kamp-Lintfort, Germany) is an experienced and independent R&D company offering engineering services for RF-systems and microelectronics. They develop innovative solutions for wireless communications and radio-controlled sensor technology to their customers' advantage. The core ability of IMST is the development of micro-electronic circuits, especially sophisticated chip design. Our circuit developments can be found, for example, in radio communication, radar technology and industrial metrology.

Plextek RF Integration specializes in the design and development of MMICs, RFICs and microwave/mmWave modules. They have designed over 70 full custom MMICs for TriQuint on a wide range of foundries and processes. Their experience encompasses LNAs, PAs, mixers, receivers, transmitters, transceivers, phase shifters, switches, limiters, step and voltage variable attenuators, frequency multipliers and VCOs.

RF Integration (Boston, MA) is a leading custom RF product development company with experience in GaAs, SiGe, RF CMOS and SiP (System in Package) technologies on process nodes ranging from 250nm to 65nm. Incorporated in 1999, RF Integration offers full turn-key product development and supply of custom RF solutions, radio systems and modules; RF Integrated Circuits (RFICs) or mixed signal IC's with significant high frequency content; and RF IP blocks that are integrated into their customers' products.

Roke Manor Research (Hampshire, United Kingdom) provides technology consultancy, product development and independent design service for custom GaAs MMICs. In addition to offering standalone designs, Roke also provides optimised MMIC components as part of larger system developments. Roke supports programs across a range of markets.

Teramics (Mountain View, CA) specializes in the design of custom integrated circuits, packages and modules for RF / microwave, mmWave and optical communication markets. They are focused on custom MMIC and RFIC designs in GaAs, GaN, InP, SiGe and Si processes, high-frequency modules, components and sub-systems. Offering design services and IP for single-function ICs to complex multi-chip modules with multifunction chips up to 300 GHz, Teramics excels in offering a differentiated product well-suited for commercial, space and military applications. Teramics takes pride in designing for uncompromising quality and reliability while balancing performance and cost specifications.

TNO (The Hague, Netherlands) is an independent research institute with extensive experience on modern radar systems and on the design, development and test of miniaturized microwave front-ends and antennas. TNO has developed MMICs for applications ranging from 1 to 100 GHz for customers in defence, government, industrial and space markets. Successful examples include S-band and X-band chip sets (High Power Amplifiers, Multi Function Chips, Phase shifters, Attenuators and Mixers) developed in various process technologies.

Viper RF (Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom) is an established consultancy in electronic and radio frequency design including full custom GaAs Microwave Monolithic ICs. The VIPER RF design team is experienced in a wide range of application areas and market sectors including mobile communications, wireless infrastructure, radar and EW components for defence, SATCOMMs and very high power microwave amplifiers based on GaN. VIPER RF also provides full thermal simulations and design of electrical and mechanical interfaces.