Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Cadence Design Systems | Subject: Fire and Ice QXC
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 22 September 2003
Tools support latest 90nm process
Cadence and Chartered Semiconductor are to provide a streamlined path from design to volume production for Chartered NanoAccess 90nm manufacturing technologies
Cadence and Chartered Semiconductor are to provide a streamlined path from design to volume production for Chartered NanoAccess 90nm manufacturing technologies using Cadence's leading solutions for nanometre design. Foundry-validated technology files for Cadence Fire and Ice QXC and Assura DRC/LVS/RCX targeting Chartered's 90nm processes will be available to their mutual customers.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 September 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The push toward 90nm has uncovered significant design challenges.
Our collaboration with Cadence will ensure that our customers have access to world-class solutions to tackle these issues", said Kevin Meyer, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Services at Chartered.
"With the combination of our 90nm process technology and leading custom and digital IC design tools from Cadence, we are solving the key issues associated with physical verification and signal integrity that designers are facing today".
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"Our ongoing collaboration with Chartered highlights our commitment to support our customers on the latest process technologies from leading-edge foundries", said Charlie Huang, Corporate Vice President of Business Development, Cadence.
"Cadence is working closely with Chartered to address customers' nanometre design needs with industry-leading physical verification, parasitic extraction and signal integrity solutions for achieving design closure.
This will reduce customers' design risk, enabling a faster ramp from design to volume production".
Fire and Ice QXC is one of the most accurate cell-based extractors for nanometre-scale digital IC designs.
It enables Chartered customers to have accurate extraction correlation to real silicon timing results.
Fire and Ice QXC incorporates new-generation 3D models that correctly account for all copper and optical effects, enabling designers to reduce timing margins, as well as improve the performance and yield of their designs.
Integrated seamlessly with the Cadence Encounter digital IC design platform, Fire and Ice QXC enables silicon-accurate timing closure, signal integrity analysis and power verification (using SignalStorm and CeltIC signal integrity and VoltageStorm power grid verification) of nanometre designs within a single platform.
Assura DRC/LVS/RCX is a leading physical verification and parasitic extraction solution for custom ICs.
It helps drive a device-level integrated solution to the 90nm node for Chartered customers.
The Assura solution supports the verification and parasitic extraction of leading-edge processes that utilise copper technology and is capable of handling advanced analogue and mixed-signal designs down to the nanometre range.
In addition to extracting parasitic resistance and capacitance, Assura RCX can also perform self and mutual (coupling) inductance extraction, which can be critical for optimising high-frequency analogue, mixed-signal and RF designs.
Assura physical verification is part of the Cadence Virtuoso custom design platform and provides seamless physical verification, parasitic extraction, simulation and analysis of custom ICs within a single environment.
The Fire and Ice QXC technology files for Chartered's 90nm process are available now from Chartered.
The Assura DRC/LVS/RCX rule decks for 90nm will be available in Q4 2003.
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