Mentor Graphics Calibre InRoute Delivers True Manufacturing Signoff During Physical Design Closure
03 5월 2010 - 10:00PM
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Highlights:
- Invokes Calibre natively within the
Olympus-SoC environment
- Automatically detects and repairs DRC/DFM
violations during implementation
- Eliminates late stage surprises and
unnecessary signoff iterations
- Improves design quality while reducing time to
signoff
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the
new Calibre® InRoute design and verification platform, which now
enables designers to natively invoke Calibre tools within the
Olympus-SoC™ place and route system to achieve true manufacturing
closure during physical design. The Calibre InRoute product
automatically detects and fixes DRC violations and performs design
for manufacturing (DFM) enhancements while optimizing for area,
timing, power and signal integrity. The full power of the
Olympus-SoC and Calibre platforms together improve design quality,
eliminate late-stage surprises, and significantly reduce time to
closure.
"We have used Calibre InRoute on a production 55nm SOC. InRoute
has successfully corrected the DRC violations caused by several
complex IPs, whose 'abstract' views did not fully match the
underlying layout, as well as several detailed routing DRC
violations," said Philippe Magarshack, STMicroelectronics
Technology R&D Group Vice President and Central CAD and Design
Solutions General Manager. "Besides catching manufacturability
issues early in the design flow, InRoute allows us to automatically
find and repair violations without leaving the Olympus cockpit.
This saves engineering time and ensures that no new violations will
be created by the fixes. We will take advantage of these unique
InRoute capabilities in upcoming 55nm, 40nm and 32nm ST
designs."
"Calibre InRoute with Olympus-SoC is a breakthrough product
because it allows our customers to design to tighter margins,
realizing higher performance and lower power, while eliminating
design-driven manufacturing issues, all without extending
time-to-market," said Joseph Sawicki, Vice President and General
Manager for the Design-to-Silicon division at Mentor Graphics.
"Calibre InRoute has the potential to be a game changer for design
teams already pressed by tight tapeout delivery dates."
The Manufacturing Closure Problem
Designers are experiencing growing manufacturing closure problems
in advanced ICs, such as mismatches between SVRF-based design rules
and inaccurate or outdated place and route models; timing and power
degradation due to litho, fill and thickness variability; long
runtimes due to multiple iterations and huge ASCII file transfers;
and lengthy manual repair methodologies. These issues lead to
surprises late in the design cycle and delay time-to-market.
Existing solutions that simply provide error annotation followed by
manual repairs don't really solve the problem because they are
slow, require layout engineers to have deep manufacturing
knowledge, and are non-convergent because manual fixes to one
problem often create new violations.
The Calibre InRoute Solution The
innovative Calibre InRoute Open Router architecture allows the
Olympus-SoC system to natively invoke Calibre SVRF-based DRC and
DFM analysis in the inner loop of the router. The Calibre InRoute
platform provides interactive, incremental analysis, on-demand
GDSII model abstraction, and automated repair techniques targeted
at specific DRC and DFM violations. The InRoute platform also
performs MCMM-based analysis and optimization during yield
improvement modifications to automatically minimize the impact on
timing and power.
The InRoute architecture is also extremely scalable -- besides
the full breadth of DRC, LVS, LFD, CMP thickness variation, CAA and
other DFM capabilities in the current Calibre platform, InRoute
enables new Calibre rules and features to become immediately
available inside the Olympus-SoC design environment as they are
added. This ensures the increasing effectiveness of the InRoute
platform as DRC and DFM rules get more numerous and complex.
Multimedia is also available at
www.mentor.com/calibre-inroute.
About Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics
Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware
and software design solutions, providing products, consulting
services and award-winning support for the world's most successful
electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the
company reported revenues over the last 12 months of about $800
million and employs approximately 4,425 people worldwide. Corporate
headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville,
Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.
(Mentor Graphics and Calibre are registered trademarks and
Olympus-SoC is a trademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All
other company or product names are the registered trademarks or
trademarks of their respective owners).
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