Plextek equipped for RF on Wafer testing to 50GHz

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Press Release

Plextek equipped for RF on Wafer testing to 50GHz

Issued 16/02/2009

Clean room investment enhances Plextek's custom IC design services

Plextek, the Cambridge-based electronics and communications design consultancy has recently invested in a new clean room, which has been fully equipped to undertake RF On Wafer (RFOW) test to 50GHz. Having designed over 40 different ICs for a wide range of clients and applications Plextek is one of the world's leading full-custom GaAs IC design houses. This new RFOW capability is a valuable addition to the services Plextek is able to offer clients moving forward.

The construction of the test facility includes a Cascade wafer probe station and a 50GHz Agilent PNA vector network analyser. The equipment allows accurate on wafer characterisation of circuits and devices from 10MHz to 50GHz. Two large flat screen monitors are used to display an image of the circuit under test and its measured performance side by side.

Liam Devlin, Director of RF Integration at Plextek commented, "The test area is now fully commissioned and in use to perform on wafer analyse of circuit blocks that we're developing. Through the capability we've been able to increase the effectiveness of Plextek's custom IC design and development team."