Mentor DFM Analysis Service Delivers Calibre Litho Checks for TSMC 40nm and 28nm Customers
24 5월 2012 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:MENT) today announced the
availability of a new DFM Analysis Service based on the Calibre®
platform for TSMC 40nm and 28nm foundry customers. The service
analyzes the customer’s design database in accordance with TSMC’s
lithography process checking (LPC) flow. It then delivers a results
database with hotspot locations and fixing hints that routers can
use to perform corrections. This DFM approach is an attractive
alternative for designers taping out relatively few advanced node
devices per year.
“LPC checking identifies hotspots before designers commit to
tape-out,” said Suk Lee, TSMC senior director of Design
Infrastructure Marketing. “We have worked with Mentor to ensure its
DFM Analysis Service can help designers quickly complete DFM checks
and enter production.”
“Mentor offers a very efficient solution because we work with
TSMC to validate sign-off tools and decks early in the technology
development process,” said Michael Buehler-Garcia, senior director
of marketing for Calibre Design Solutions at Mentor Graphics. “Our
DFM service links TSMC’s process expertise with Calibre’s software
expertise, and the compute power of Mentor’s Calibre data center,
resulting in fast, secure LPC runs. For designers with a relatively
small number of tape-outs per year, the service option gives them a
way to meet TSMC’s sign-off requirements until their design volumes
and complexity necessitate the need to run LPC in house.
Additionally, the service complements the traditional Mentor®
long-term license purchase and short-term leasing options also
available.”
The DFM Analysis Service helps designers optimize their physical
designs by performing TSMC’s mandatory lithography checks using
TSMC DFM Data Kits (DDK) running on Calibre LFD™ prior to tape-out
and acceptance by the foundry. Mentor performs all the required
tool setup and runs the litho checks against the customer’s GDSII
design database. Customers are protected by an advanced security
infrastructure that isolates and secures their intellectual
property in Mentor’s data center in Wilsonville, Oregon, where the
runs are conducted. Only Mentor employees in support of this
service have access to customer files and the customer-specific
environment.
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation 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 $1,015 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 is a trademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other
company or product names are the registered trademarks or
trademarks of their respective owners.)
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