SMIC Employs Mentor Graphics Calibre PERC for Reliability Verification of Multi-Power Domain SoCs
23 5월 2012 - 2:44AM
Business Wire
Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ:MENT) and Semiconductor
Manufacturing International Corporation ("SMIC") (NYSE:SMI)
(SEHK:0981) today announced that SMIC is using the Calibre® PERC
circuit reliability verification solution as part of its latest
electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection design methodology. SMIC’s
approach helps ensure whole chip ESD protection for its customers’
large, complex SoCs, including all I/Os, embedded IP blocks from
SMIC or third-party sources, and eFuse embedded memory. SMIC
adopted the Calibre PERC solution because it provides the unique
ability to automatically combine schematic (netlist) and physical
layout criteria and measurements to perform advanced reliability
checks that until now were primarily done manually.
“New applications and use models create more difficult ESD
protection challenges for designers due to increasing breakdown
voltage variability, and a greater number of vulnerable circuit
nodes at the interfaces between voltage domains in low power
designs,” said Tianshen Tang, vice president of design service at
SMIC. “We offer a multi-pronged approach that includes robust ESD
protection in our IP libraries, running circuit checks for our
customers using Calibre PERC with SMIC rule decks, and consulting
services to assist customers with their specific ESD performance
and reliability needs. We will also issue Calibre PERC design kits
for our customers by mid-year so they can define and run their own
checks.”
SMIC uses the Calibre PERC platform’s Logic-Driven-Layout
analysis capability to ensure that all designs, including SMIC IP
libraries and customer designs, conform to SMIC’s enhanced ESD
design rules. Some of the key ESD protection techniques
include:
- Integrated ESD protection with a common
ESD ground bus for the entire I/O ring to ensure safe
discharge
- Cross-voltage domain and analog-digital
interface protection
- Fast trigger protection devices for
enhanced design margin
- Low leakage protection circuits and
high latch-up immunity
- Local ESD protection for IP cores and
eFuse memories
The Calibre PERC product not only detects violations, but
provides designers with a holistic environment for debugging
circuit reliability problems with an integrated view of circuit
connectivity, topology, physical layout and design rules that is
not available in any other tool.
“Designers are realizing that regardless of the process
dimension they are targeting, circuit reliability checking is a
growing issue that requires much more sophisticated automation than
in the past,” said Michael Buehler-Garcia, senior director of
marketing for Calibre Design Solutions at Mentor Graphics. “The
impact on yield and long-term reliability grows at each successive
node, so designers should plan to make advanced reliability
checking an integral and permanent addition to their design
flows.”
About SMIC
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (“SMIC”;
NYSE: SMI; SEHK: 981) is one of the leading semiconductor foundries
in the world and the largest and most advanced foundry in Mainland
China, providing integrated circuit (IC) foundry and technology
services at 0.35-micron to 40-nanometer. Headquartered in Shanghai,
China, SMIC has a 300mm wafer fabrication facility (fab) and three
200mm wafer fabs in its Shanghai mega-fab, two 300mm wafer fabs in
its Beijing mega-fab, a 200mm wafer fab in Tianjin, and a 200mm fab
under construction in Shenzhen. SMIC also has customer service and
marketing offices in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Taiwan, and a
representative office in Hong Kong. In addition, SMIC manages and
operates a 300mm wafer fab in Wuhan owned by Wuhan Xinxin
Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation. For more information,
please visit www.smics.com.
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About Mentor Graphics
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hardware and software design solutions, providing products,
consulting services and award-winning support for the world’s most
successful electronic, semiconductor and systems companies.
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