WILSONVILLE, Ore., March 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentor
Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced further
enhancements and optimizations to the Calibre® platform
and Analog FastSPICE™ (AFS) platform by completing TSMC 10nm FinFET
V1.0 certification. In addition, the Calibre and Analog FastSPICE
platforms are ready for early design starts and IP design on TSMC's
7nm FinFET process based on the most current Design Rule Manual
(DRM) and SPICE model.
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To help mutual customers prepare their designs for advanced
manufacturing processes, Mentor has made improvements for 10nm
physical verification, accelerating the runtime of the Calibre
nmDRC™ sign-off tool compared to the tool's runtime when it was
initially certified for required 10nm accuracy last year. New
device parameters of the 10nm process are supported in the Calibre
nmLVS™ tool for more accurate SPICE models and self-heating
simulation. Mentor has also enhanced the parasitic accuracy in the
Calibre xACT™ solution, and is actively improving layout parasitic
extraction flow to meet 10nm requirements.
The Calibre platform also helps designers improve design
reliability and manufacturability. The TSMC reliability offering
leverages the Calibre PERC™ reliability verification solution, now
with enhanced techniques for 10nm resistance and current density
checking. For design for manufacturing (DFM), Mentor added
color-aware fill and more sophisticated alignment and spacing rules
to the SmartFill feature of the Calibre YieldEnhancer tool. Mentor
also optimized the Calibre DesignREV™ chip finishing tool, the
Calibre RVE™ results viewer, and the Calibre RealTime interface to
give designers easier integration and debugging capabilities for
multi-patterning, layout vs. schematic (LVS) comparison, and
electrical rule checking (ERC) and reliability verification.
Mentor and TSMC are now collaborating on bringing the Calibre
platform's broad capabilities to the 7nm FinFET process. The
Calibre nmDRC and Calibre nmLVS tools are already certified for
customers' early design starts. TSMC and Mentor are expanding use
of the SmartFill functionality and Calibre multi-patterning
capabilities to support the technology requirements of 7nm.
For fast, accurate circuit simulation, TSMC certified the AFS
platform, including the AFS Mega circuit simulator, for 10nm V1.0.
The AFS platform is also certified for the latest version of the
7nm DRM and SPICE for early design starts.
The Mentor place-and-route platform—including the Olympus-SoC™
system—has been enhanced to support advanced design rules at 10nm,
and Mentor is optimizing its correlation with sign-off extraction
and static timing analysis tools. This collaboration has also been
extended to 7nm.
"We continue to collaborate with Mentor Graphics to provide
design solutions and services that will help our mutual customers
become successful with their 7nm designs," said Suk Lee, TSMC senior director, Design
Infrastructure Marketing Division. "Working together, we are also
enabling the full production release of our 10nm technology design
support."
"To get the world's most advanced processes into the hands of
today's leading SoC designers requires intense collaboration
between the foundry and the EDA supplier," said Joe Sawicki, vice president and general manager
of Mentor Graphics Design-to-Silicon Division. "We're honored that
TSMC continues to leverage the proven quality, performance and
breadth of Mentor platforms in its ecosystem strategy for the
future."
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 approximately $1.18
billion. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W.
Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon
97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.
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