Mentor Graphics Introduces Calibre RealTime for Instant Signoff Verification of Custom IC Designs
10 3월 2011 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the
new Calibre® RealTime platform for signoff-quality physical
verification during design creation. The first release provides
instantaneous design rule checking (DRC) in the SpringSoft Laker™
custom IC design and layout solution, using the same Calibre decks
as the signoff flow. The new solution improves design speed and
quality of results by giving designers, for the first time, the
full power of Calibre’s signoff engines and qualified decks during
design. This allows them to optimize their layouts for performance
without sacrificing manufacturing yield. A version for the Mentor®
IC Station® custom design environment will be available in
June.
“The new flow is seamless and virtually instantaneous, allowing
our designers to use foundry-qualified verification information
during design optimization in real time,” said Richard Rouse,
Distinguished Engineer at MoSys, Inc. “The implementation fits
naturally into the design flow so the learning curve is very fast.
We were a bit concerned about the complexity of physical design at
28nm, but having the signoff DRC instantaneously available during
layout, and not having to worry about consistency between the
design tool DRC and signoff, has removed a lot of our concerns. We
believe that we can save at least a week on a typical
implementation project with this flow.”
Over the last 10 years, the design rule manual for a new
technology has grown from a small pamphlet of dozens of pages into
a grand tome with hundreds of pages. Design teams can no longer
rely on their memory and manual checks to avoid design rule
violations in their layouts. Design groups working at 32nm and
beyond are in fact reporting a significant increase in the
difficulty of converging to a high-quality layout that is
completely DRC-clean.
“This is an exciting new capability for our mutual customers
because it brings what used to be two different activities—design
and verification—together to make the designer more productive. By
eliminating iterations, data transfer delays, and ripple effects
that are common when physical verification is left until later in
the cycle, designers can get sign-off quality feedback in real time
and shorten the overall design cycle,” said JT Li, VP of Physical
Design & Technology Product Group at SpringSoft.
“Our designers are pushing the limits of the design rules to get
the best analog performance,” said Ted Buchwald, a senior engineer
at Mobius Semiconductor. "Having the signoff design rule checks in
real time, while creating the layout, allows the designer to break
the LVS-DRC-LVS loop. When a block is LVS-clean, it's DRC-clean and
ready for extraction. It completely changes the
layout-verification-simulation flow and lets us focus on getting
the best results possible. The tool was clearly designed by someone
with first-hand analog layout experience. in that it never seems to
be in the way, but yet is always available to be used when and how
the designer wants to use it."
“We are continuously improving the run times for all the
products within the Calibre offering,” said Joseph Sawicki, vice
president and general manager of the Design-to-Silicon division of
Mentor Graphics. “By making Calibre also instantly available in the
design creation phase, we can short-circuit the divergence between
design tool checking and signoff and make custom designers more
productive.”
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 $915 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, Mentor, IC Station, 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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