Fujitsu Semiconductor Expands Use of Calibre for Advanced IC Physical Verification and Design for Manufacturing
23 1월 2012 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that
Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited has expanded its use of the Calibre®
platform, incorporating the latest Calibre physical verification
and design for manufacturing (DFM) capabilities in its design
enabling flow for all Fujitsu Semiconductor projects, including its
most advanced analog and digital designs. The selection was driven
by the Calibre product’s industry-leading accuracy and performance,
which address design complexity at advanced nodes, as well as new
Calibre productivity features. For example, the Calibre platform
provides pattern matching for fast identification of litho hotspots
and other design rule check (DRC) violations, automatic waivers for
managing rule waivers during DRC, programmable electrical rule
checking (PERC) for reliability verification, and the SmartFill
function to realize advanced timing-aware filling for DFM.
“Exponentially increasing design complexity is something we must
consider as we and our customers develop products on more advanced
processes,” said Hiroshi Ikeda, director of the System LSI
Technology and Design Platform Development Department at Fujitsu
Semiconductor Limited. “Our designers need tools that improve
designer efficiency and help achieve reduced time-to-market
targets. The Calibre platform addresses these needs by making
complex design rule checks easier to specify, by tracking waivers
automatically, and by automating electrical checks that we have
been forced to perform, mostly by hand, in the past. We also
believe that the Mentor SmartFill fill solution is needed to
achieve faster and less intrusive DFM filling to keep up with more
advanced nodes.”
The Calibre Pattern Matching solution provides automatic pattern
capturing capability to easily and accurately create
multi-dimensional layout verification rules, resulting in a smaller
number of rules to be described and shorter verification time.
Pattern-based rules also help to speed up the feedback loop when
problematic layout patterns are detected during manufacturing and
testing.
The Calibre Automatic Waivers system allows information about
approved design rule waivers to be included directly in the design
database, automatically eliminating spurious DRC violations. This
saves designers a significant amount of time because they do not
have to debug or re-validate waivers during the implementation
process.
The Calibre PERC product enhances overall design reliability by
providing a fast verification environment to check design
constraints related to electrostatic discharge (ESD), latch-up and
other analog design factors that previously had to be checked
through visual inspections.
By optimizing fill shapes for multiple objectives and across
multiple layers, the Calibre SmartFill tool produces a layout that
is more robust with fewer manufacturing and post-fill induced
timing issues. Fujitsu Semiconductor and Mentor Graphics are
working closely to enhance Fujitsu Semiconductor’s DFM methodology
by incorporating the SmartFill tool at advanced process nodes.
“At Mentor we are continuously striving to provide solutions
that help our customers address the dual challenges of exploding
design complexity and shorter market windows,” said Joseph Sawicki,
vice president and general manager of the Mentor Graphics
Design-to-Silicon division. “We are pleased that Fujitsu
Semiconductor has expanded its use of Calibre to resolve these
issues in physical verification and DFM at advanced process
nodes.”
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 in
the last fiscal year 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
of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names
are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective
owners.)
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