Toshiba's Iwate plant offers foundry service for technologies from 0.4um to 90nm 8" wafer. Besides PDK and digital/mixed signal libraries and IP, also special process developments and modifications following customers specifications are possible (ie. Special substrate, special process module, special layer stacks and post processing steps such as protection films and microlenses).

Iwate Toshiba Foundry Offering

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  Iwate Toshiba is one of Toshiba’s major fabrication site for 8" wafer
  • Located in Kitakami City, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
• Available Technology Nodes  and Services (0.6um to 90nm)
  • CMOS Logic (with memory and analogue options)
  • Sensor (Variety of pixel sizes, low cost aluminium wiring
  • High-Voltage CMOS process, DMOS process for high power
  • Options like "True-Silicon-Via", pre-assembly steps
  • Customer defined options, devices, design rules, process modules
    • In close cooperation with Development Team in Iwate
• Manufacturing Service
  • High volume economic 8” wafer manufacturing
    • (Capacity for Foundry Business  > 10 000 wafer/month)
  • Long production lifetime targets
  • Certified environment, quality & social responsibility
    • (ISO14001, TS16949, OHSAS18001)

Iwate Toshiba Target Customers

• Customers developing for "special" applications
  • like optical sensor, particle sensor, detectors,
  • other special analogue functions
• Customers developing for applications which have - so far - used conventional non-CMOS technologies
  • like vacuum tubes, (micro-) mechanics, micro-strips,
  • other "exotic" process etc
• Customers who intend to innovate their products by making use of a large products scale, commercial attractive CMOS process

Iwate Toshiba's Key Value

• Offer special process, process modification and new process development
  • Special wafer substrates, custom specific process modules, special implant- and diffusion process conditions, special design rules, custom defined layer stacks
• Offer non-standard processing steps
  • "thru-silicon-via", protection films, optical films, micro-lenses
• Offer a wafer probing service
  • Optional with light/dark condition testing
  • Which is integrated in the wafer fab's environment
• Enable to launch/use the product on mid to large volumes to end customers who have vital interest in a stable commercial foundry behind

Further Information

• More information about the production flow is included in this video: Play video (mpg 40MB, we recommend to download via broadband internet only).
• Iwate Toshiba Electronics Co. Ltd

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