New-Tech Europe Magazine | October 2018

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Pharrowtech boosts millimeter-wave fixed wireless access coverage

Pharrowtech, spin-off initiative from the world-leading research and innovation hub imec, announces that it will demonstrate a prototype of a 60 GHz active phased array at the Telecom Infra Project Summit in London (October 16-17, 2018). Pharrowtech’s solution paves the way for telecom OEMs to dramatically increase range and a

fiber-to-the-home is not feasible. It eliminates the extremely high CAPEX of connecting individual premises by fiber. Leveraging the unlicensed 60 GHz band further reduces OPEX, resulting in a highly favorable total cost of ownership for telecom operators. Wim Van Thillo, program director at imec and Pharrowtech co- founder, said: “At imec, we

field of view of backhaul nodes, access points and home units. It is fully built using low-cost, high-volume chip and antenna technology. This marks an important step towards accelerated deployment of cost-effective high-speed internet in rural, urban and suburban environments. Fiber-to-the-home roll-out has proven prohibitively costly and slow. Wireless high-speed connections, known as fixed wireless access and enabled by the Pharrowtech technology, can ensure fast and reliable deployment in a broad range of scenarios where

have been pioneering low-cost mm-wave systems since 2005. Today, our modular design offers operators full flexibility to deploy in different neighborhood types having diverse building and vegetation densities while still meeting all regulatory requirements. Our prototype’s long range and large field of view are achieved through 256 antenna elements driven by 128 power amplifiers. Its proprietary chips are fully realized in high-volume CMOS technology to ensure low cost and power consumption.”

TowerJazz Increases ITAR Portfolio, Adds 65nmTechnology in Support of Growing Aerospace and Defense Customer Demand

TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, today announced the Company is increasing its technology portfolio that is compliant with ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) by adding 65nm technology access for next- generation ROICs (Readout Integrated Circuits), enabling essential military and space

products are in design. Through proper licensing TowerJazz can provide access for aerospace and defense customers to an increasing technology portfolio including high dynamic range image sensors (CIS and CCD), integrated power devices (BCD, SOI, and LDMOS) and high frequency silicon RFCMOS.

“We are excited to announce this new advanced capability to our customers. Adding 65nm, and soon, 45nm technology for ITAR products enables our aerospace and defense customers additional avenues to continue to create advanced products to serve this very critical market,” said Mike Scott, Director, TowerJazz USA Aerospace & Defense.

applications critical to national defense. ROICs are used for reading infrared and ultraviolet detectors in military surveillance and other applications ranging from x-ray astronomy to security and industrial inspection. Initial products serving the US aerospace and defense community have taped-out in this new 65nm offering and additional

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