Mentor Graphics and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Collaborate on 20nm Fill Solutions Based on Calibre SmartFill
29 5월 2012 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that
GLOBALFOUNDRIES will use the SmartFill facilities of the Calibre®
YieldEnhancer product to enable advanced fill techniques for 20nm
manufacturing processes. The multi-layer fill analysis and
cell-based fill generation capabilities of the SmartFill system
help designers deal with complex fill interactions at advanced
nodes with minimal impact on circuit performance. Moreover, Calibre
SmartFill delivers greatly reduced post-fill GDS database size and
faster runtimes compared to traditional dummy fill. Used with the
design kit provided by GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Calibre SmartFill allows
designers to meet IC fill constraints in a single pass without
manual customization or modification, further reducing tape-out
cycle times.
“At 20nm the fill strategy becomes much more sophisticated
because it’s no longer just about planarity,” said Maq Mannan,
director of PDK development at GLOBALFOUNDRIES. “Besides CMP-ECD
issues, you have to consider a whole range of interrelated effects,
such as etch, lithography, stress, rapid thermal annealing (RTA)
and other issues essential to successful manufacturing. Calibre’s
integrated fill analysis and cell-based approach makes fill more
precise, while achieving target runtime and output file size.”
GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 20nm-LPM technology is a comprehensive and
cost-effective platform, delivering up to 40% performance
improvement and twice the gate density of 28nm. The company’s Fab 8
in New York began running full-loop 20nm silicon in January, and
silicon delivery is expected in 2H 2012.
New Capabilities for Advanced Fill Requirements
The Calibre SmartFill solution provides advanced capabilities
such as multi-layer fill shapes and user-defined fill cells, which
are automatically inserted into a layout based on analysis of the
design. It also supports continuous, multi-dimensional functions in
place of linear pass-fail conditions, resulting in finer resolution
of complex fill algorithms that cannot be performed with
single-dimension design rules alone. This allows customers to
simultaneously optimize for multiple factors such as density and
perimeter.
The SmartFill capability fits seamlessly into the customer’s
existing design environment, enabling timing-aware fill with back
annotation of fill shapes into all leading design databases to
support final timing verification. The SmartFill product also
allows customers to define a list of critical nets that require
special treatment during the fill procedure.
“Precise fill capability is rapidly becoming one of the most
critical aspects of design for manufacturing at advanced nodes, and
designers need more sophisticated tools to make sure that fill is
optimized to meet multiple requirements,” said Jean-Marie Brunet,
director of product marketing for Calibre DFM at Mentor Graphics.
“The combination of GLOBALFOUNDRIES design kits and the Calibre
SmartFill product gives designers a solution that creates the exact
amount, shape and location of fill, not only to ensure that layouts
meet complex manufacturing requirements, but also to maintain their
design intent.”
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 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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