C&S selects Tower Semiconductor foundry for power automotive devices

C&S Technology, which supplies audio and video automotive devices for Hyundai & Kia Motor Company, has selected Tower Semiconductor, Ltd. as its preferred foundry to manufacture power automotive devices. It said the devices integrate functions that would otherwise require multiple ICs. Tower offers a BCD (Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS) power management process.

“We chose Tower’s 0.35-micron power management 60V solution for its integration capabilities and their strong quality commitment to automotive manufacturing requirements,” said, Mr. J.Y. Kim, Head of Automotive Business, C&S Technology. “In addition, the modularity of the Power BCD process gives us the ability to reuse much of our IP in future more highly integrated designs.”

“Tower’s modular platform with scalable voltage LDMOS is ideal for the family of automotive devices required by C&S Technology,” stated Dr. Itzhak Edrei, Executive VP, Tower and Jazz Business Units. “The advanced, and we believe singular modeling capability, combined with the process flow efficiency (20-30% fewer mask layers than standard IDM offerings) provides C&S Technology a cost- effective, best-in-class technical capability.”