PARIS, FRANCE: Tanner EDA, a division of Tanner Research Incorporated, based in Monrovia, California, the United States, and TowerJazz have joined forces to meet Tanner EDA's needs for high-quality power management ICs.

In a statement, Tanner EDA said the collaboration was aimed at developing Process Design Kits (PDKs) for power management device design.

The PDKs would be the result of combining Tanner EDA's specialized IC design tools and TowerJazz's advanced power management platform.

According to Tanner EDA, its HiPer Silicon Power Management Design Software allows designers to plan and administer power management schemes in the context of their total design.

The HiPer Silicon has "features and functionality" that meets the power management requirements of an A/MS designer, like cohesive and consistent user interface across the entire design flow.

TowerJazz says its Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) power management platform, has a combination of bipolar NPN and PNP devices, 0.5- to 0.18-micron CMOS density, and high-voltage CMOS and DMOS FETs.

The Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) can be used in complex power management chips – including battery and portable power management driver ICs, power control for PC products, Class-D audio amplifiers, as well as many other applications related to computing and communications.

Tanner EDA and TowerJazz say their co-developed PDKs for power management devices are expected to be available in the first quarter of 2010.