VIA Technologies Adopts Mentor Graphics Calibre PERC for Critical ESD Checking
07 2월 2011 - 11:00PM
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Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that VIA
Technologies, Inc., a fabless supplier of power efficient x86
processor platforms, is adopting the Calibre® PERC electrical rule
checking product to ensure that electrostatic discharge (ESD)
protection meets established guidelines to help prevent circuit
failures and design re-spins.
By helping ensure that designers have met all ESD protection
rules, the Calibre PERC product contributes to the robustness of
designs in portable and high-reliability applications. It also
verifies the integrity of low-power designs that have
multiple-power domains by making a variety of leakage and
resistance checks. The Calibre PERC product removes the burden of
manual electrical rule checking from designers, as it can be
programmed to meet these general concerns as well as address unique
customer requirements.
"Calibre PERC is the only tool that enables users to define
electrical checks using both topology and geometric information. We
use this tool to create a set of rules that preserve debugging
experience from previous product ESD issues and prevent the same
ESD failures from happening across many design sites," said Shelton
Lu, Vice President of Manufacturing and Product Engineering in the
CPU Platform R&D division of VIA. "This allows PERC to perform
many critical checks for our design engineers. VIA has a very
sophisticated methodology for how our ESD structures should be
constructed, including rules for multiple power domains,
back-to-back diodes and power/ground clamp devices. Additionally,
we also have checks that we perform on leakage paths and discharge
path resistance. PERC provides our designers a solution to validate
the robustness of our designs by giving us access to the necessary
circuit, geometry and parasitic information to automatically
perform checks that help drive the reliability of VIA's product
offering."
"Our customers need to automate very complex electrical design
rule checks in a multi-voltage, mixed-signal environment," said
Joseph Sawicki, Vice President and General Manager for the
Design-to-Silicon division at Mentor Graphics. "Calibre PERC
introduces a new class of design rule checkers that provide our
customers with the versatility and programmability needed for
today's advanced designs, while working in the familiar Calibre
platform that is integrated into all major EDA design flows and
supported by all the major foundries."
Availability The Calibre PERC product is
available now with support for TSMC, Common Platform and SMIC.
About Calibre PERC The Calibre PERC
product addresses a range of applications including validating that
a circuit has sufficient protection against electrostatic discharge
(ESD) events, and helping designers identify inappropriate
connections between multiple power supplies in mixed-signal ICs. It
helps ensure the completeness of circuitry needed to protect a
device against ESD and ensures a higher level of ESD design rule
compliance because it goes beyond traditional layout geometry-based
checking to enable verification of specific device and interconnect
structures and electrical characteristics. For example, it can
identify the omission of required ESD protection on a schematic or
netlist. It can also be used to look for errant signal paths and
other soft connection errors such as well connection errors,
floating devices, nets, or pins, incorrect voltage supply
connections, excessive series pass gates, problem level shifter
designs, antenna checks, floating wells, minimum "hot" NWELL width,
and many others.
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
electronic, semiconductor and systems companies. Established in
1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of
about $850 million. 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 of Mentor
Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are the
registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective
owners.)
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503.685.1193 gene_forte@mentor.com Sonia Harrison Mentor Graphics
503.685.1165 sonia_harrison@mentor.com
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