Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Cadence Design Systems | Subject: Fire and Ice 3.2
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 15 August 2003
Cell-based extractor handles shrinking geometry
Cadence recons the latest release of Fire and Ice QXC is the most accurate cell-based signoff extractor for processes at 130nm and below
Cadence has announced delivery and early market acceptance of the new release of Fire and Ice QXC, the most accurate cell-based sign-off extractor for processes at 130nm and below. Fire and Ice 3.2 was shown to be the most accurate in an independent benchmark run on all commercially available cell-based extractors.
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"Fujitsu has been testing Fire and Ice QXC 3.2 in our 90nm flow, and we are very pleased with the results", said Kazuyuki Kawauchi, General Manager, Technology Development, LSI group, Fujitsu.
"We have tested QXC for accuracy, speed and capacity, and it exceeded our requirements for all three criteria.
We are looking forward to installing this version of QXC into our production environment as soon as possible".
The increase in SoC integration and shrinking semiconductor process geometries pose new challenges for extraction engines and especially their model-generator engines.
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Key physical and optical effects - for example, resistance as a function of width, metal fill, wire edge enlargement, dishing and erosion - significantly reduce the accuracy of current-generation extraction engines.
The new-generation Cadence modelling in the latest release of the Fire and Ice product line addresses all these challenges.
Fire and Ice QXC 3.2 was the clear winner in an independent accuracy benchmark run by a leading semiconductor manufacturer, which included all commercially available cell-based extractors.
The test was run on a 90nm benchmark of approximately 11,000 nets, with a commercial field solver as the reference.
Fire and Ice QXC 3.2 yielded an exceptionally low mean error value of 0.05% and a standard deviation of 1.96.
"Customers are rapidly adopting the latest release of Fire and Ice QXC, reaffirming our leadership in parasitic extraction", said Jim Bailey, General Manager of the Nanometre Analysis and Verification group at Cadence.
"With Fire and Ice QXC, customers gain the more accurate timing, better performance and improved yield needed to transform their designs into high-volume products".
Fire and Ice QXC 3.2 integrates seamlessly with the Cadence Encounter digital IC design platform, including Cadence timing and signal integrity analysis and power verification solutions (SignalStorm, CeltIC and VoltageStorm).
Used during place-and-route of complex ASIC/ASSP and SoC designs, Fire and Ice QXC extracts interconnect parasitic data directly into the SoC Encounter timing database format for timing and signal integrity analysis or in standard DSPF or SPEF formats.
Fire and Ice QXC also integrates easily with any standard place and route or analysis flow via industry standard file formats.
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