Tahoe RF Semiconductor Targets Wireless Designs

A team of engineers formerly with IBM Microelectronics’ Wireless Division has formed a new radio and analog integrated circuit design company, Tahoe RF Semiconductor. The new start-up will offer services ranging from front-end circuit design and simulation all the way to back-end layout, DRC/LVS, post-layout simulation and fully packaged fabrication management using Cadence software. The company said its recent experience includes an entire WCDMA wireless chipset with analog baseband filters, 2GHz direct down conversion receiver, dual transmit/receive WCDMA PLL/synthesizers, IF VGA circuits, RF VGA circuits, pseudo direct upconvert transmit chip, 2GHz quadrature generation and 4GHz VCO. Other recent projects include a JCDMA transmit/receive chipset with integrated frequency synthesizers, CMOS and ECL standard cell libraries, 8GHz RF divide by 4 and dual modulus dividers, and CDMA2000 IF downconverter. The company is based in Auburn, California.
http://www.TahoeRF.com