Passing the Plateau of Productivity: Development of RFSOI Technologies on HR Silicon Substrates for Reconfigurable Wireless Solutions

Products designed with RFSOI on HR silicon for the cellular handset industry are being deployed in large volumes by the leading RF FE providers. These consist of highly integrated RF power switches, RF tuners, and other types of RF circuit blocks. The technologies are available in several different foundries, and the volumes are running in the tens of thousands of wafers per month. The drive for improved linearity needed for LTE 4G systems, in particular CA, will continue to push these technologies to improve their respective figures of merit for continuous leadership in the RF FE. RFSOI on HR silicon is the leading switching technology in handsets today and is poised to continue its dominance for the next decade.