GlobalFoundries is accelerating innovation in the IoT and wearables markets with the specialised Adaptive Body Bias (ABB) feature of its industry-leading 22FDX platform.

The ABB feature affords designers significantly more precision when fine-tuning the transistor threshold voltage of a circuit, enabling them to more effectively optimize the performance, energy efficiency, area, and reliability of a chip to meet the needs of a specific application.

GloFo customers working in IoT, wearables, hearables, RF, and edge computing are leveraging ABB toboost the efficiency of their designs by utilising the 22FDX platform’s power and low leakage capabilities.

The ABB feature is a way for GloFo to extend the value, performance, power, and integration capabilities of its 22FDX platform.

To date, GloFo’s 22FDX platform has realized $4.5 billion in design wins, with more than 350 million chips shipped.

This wider use of ABB features is made possible and supported by GLoFo’s ecosystem of IP and EDA tool partners, and body bias features are included in the 22FDX process design kit (PDK).

Most mature, widely used modelling, design, and verification tools are readiness-tested to empower GLoFo customers to leverage the 22FDX platform’s ABB features.