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Manuflex is a low-cost prototyping and small-volume
production service for VLSI circuit development. Since 1999,
Manuflex has fabricated circuit designs for commercial firms,
government agencies, and research and educational institutions.
SINGLE INTERFACE TO THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY
Manuflex provides designers with a single interface to
the constantly changing technologies of the semiconductor
industry. Mask generation, wafer fabrication, and device
packaging are contracted to leading industry vendors.
LOW-COST
Manuflex keeps the cost of fabricating prototype quantities
low by aggregating multiple designs onto one mask set. This
allows customers to share overhead costs associated with
mask making, wafer fabrication, and assembly. Manuflex offers
minimum (e.g. 100 dies) and medium (500, 2000 dies, etc.)
quantities within the regularly scheduled (typically monthly)
multi-project runs. Dedicated runs (also known as COT or
Customer Owned Tooling) runs are available for all processes.
Dedicated runs can be scheduled to start at any time.
TECHNOLOGY ACCESS
Manuflex provides access to a wide variety of semiconductor
processes offered by many different foundries.
DESIGN FLOWS
A variety of both foundry-specific and vendor-independent
CAD tools, design kits, and libraries may be used to prepare
designs for Manuflex processes.
Since 1999, Manuflex has provided access to a wide variety
of CMOS, GaAs, MCM, NMOS, and SOS processes offered by many
different fabricators.
AVAILABLE PROCESSES
Manuflex offers several CMOS processes today, with feature
sizes from 0.80 microns to 0.50 microns.
PACKAGING
In addition to the variety of ceramic and plastic packages
Manuflex offers, users may supply their own packages. Arrangements
can be made for many additional options, such as flip-chip
and other advanced packaging methods.
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