GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Mentor Graphics Extend Collaboration to Third Generation of DFM
26 8월 2011 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:MENT) today announced new
capabilities in its design to silicon solutions that support
GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ third generation of signoff-ready design
enablement for leading edge IC manufacturing. New technologies
support GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ manufacturing analysis and scoring (MAS)
methodology, which is implemented using the Calibre® platform’s
critical feature analysis (CFA), and can be used to optimize IP
blocks and SoCs at all layers to help reduce the manufacturing
variability of SoC products.
The Calibre platform also supports GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ DRC+
pattern-based design rule checking technology, which identifies
potential yield-limiting litho patterns while maintaining
significant performance improvement over full litho simulation
approaches. Other advances included in the third-generation DFM
offering are new Calibre LFD™ kits for 28nm and 20nm, improved CMP
models for 28nm, and improved interaction with place and route
tools (such as the Mentor® Olympus-SoC™ tool) and other design
flows to prevent late-stage signoff violations.
“The beauty of the Mentor solution is that it provides a single,
consistent environment for managing the interface between designers
and the fab throughout the life cycle of a manufacturing process
node,” said Andy Brotman, vice president, Design Infrastructure,
GLOBALFOUNDRIES. “Foundries use Calibre early in technology
development to validate new process design rules, and to determine
the specific patterns that require tighter design rule constraints.
In the case of GLOBALFOUNDRIES, these rules and patterns are then
transferred to our mutual customers in the form of DRC+ decks that
integrate rules and patterns into a consistent, high performance
verification environment. GLOBALFOUNDRIES MAS scoring methodology,
based on Calibre CFA, in conjunction with the rest of the Calibre
DFM platform, assures that third-party IP certified by
GLOBALFOUNDRIES is resistant to manufacturing variability.
Likewise, the same platform allows customers to evaluate the IP
they develop themselves for their designs, reducing the risk of
late stage problems that can lead to late products or slower than
expected yield ramps.”
“There are many innovations needed in the design-to-fab
interface to maintain the momentum of IC scaling,” said Michael
Buehler-Garcia, director of Calibre Design Solutions Marketing.
“We’ve been working with the GLOBALFOUNDRIES ecosystem, including
AMD, since the first Calibre product was introduced, and this
collaboration continues to be stronger than ever. Today, we’re
working not only to improve the precision of existing design, DFM,
and verification tools as we move from one node to the next, but
also to provide a seamless solution that can support customers from
early stage technology evaluation through mature production as many
designs are brought to market at a given node.”
Beyond just the design flow, Mentor and GLOBALFOUNDRIES are
innovating to make data captured in the test process more useful to
product engineers and designers as they debug existing designs and
introduce new designs in the same process node. These changes have
the potential to accelerate the pace at which a given node can be
brought to maturity, and to help ensure overall yield and
profitability.
Mentor and GLOBALFOUNDRIES will be demonstrating and speaking
about the next-generation DFM joint offering at the Global
Technology Conference being held at the Santa Clara Convention
Center on August 30, 2011.
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 and Calibre are registered trademarks
and LFD and Olympus-SoC are 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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