MediaTek Adopts Mentor Graphics Calibre PERC as Its ESD and Circuit Reliability Verification Solution
12 2월 2011 - 8:57AM
Marketwired
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that
MediaTek, Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company for
wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, has
adopted the Calibre® PERC product as its solution for electrical
rule checking (ERC) to help ensure comprehensive electrostatic
discharge (ESD) protection and increase overall product
reliability. The Calibre PERC solution increases the level of
automation and accuracy of circuit verification, and reduces the
number of false errors compared to MediaTek's prior approach.
MediaTek is seeing significant benefits from Mentor's advanced
ERC technology and support. Because Calibre PERC is purpose-built
for electrical rule checking, it handles MediaTek's specific ERC
challenges more comprehensively and accurately with less manual
intervention. It also provides MediaTek with more data to diagnose
the root cause of ESD failures and other reliability issues.
In addition to checking the existence and proper connectivity of
ESD protection devices, MediaTek is also using the Calibre PERC
product to measure and verify parasitic resistance between power
clamping cells and power/ground bumps along potential ESD paths.
They also use the tool to verify correct placement of on-chip ESD
components within multiple voltage domains, and maximum geometrical
distance between ESD diodes and receiver gate NMOS/PMOS
devices.
"Calibre PERC continues to demonstrate its flexibility in
delivering a range of circuit verification applications that
customers have previously had to address with 'one-off' tools,
scripts and other partial solutions," said Joseph Sawicki, vice
president and general manager of Mentor's Design-to-Silicon
division. "Calibre PERC provides a comprehensive, high capacity,
production proven circuit reliability solution that is fully
interoperable with the ubiquitous Calibre nm platform."
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.
The Calibre PERC solution 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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