High performance integrated circuits

News Release from: Cadence Design Systems
Subject: Fire and Ice QXC
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 12 December 2003

Full-chip extractor works on TSMC 90nm process

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has validated Cadence Fire and Ice QXC for the company's Nexsys process.

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Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing Company (TSMC) has validated Cadence Fire and Ice QXC for the company's Nexsys process. The evaluation verified that Fire and Ice QXC is an accurate full-chip extractor, tackling in-die process variations inherent in 90nm design. With new-generation 3D models, Fire and Ice QXC correctly accounts for all copper and optical effects, enabling designers to reduce timing margins and improve the performance and yield of their designs.

The verification of Fire and Ice QXC for the TSMC Nexsys process optimises the silicon design chain for customers.

"Our collaboration with Cadence to verify Fire and Ice QXC allows mutual customers to take full advantage of TSMC's leading-edge process technologies", said Genda Hu, Vice President of Corporate Marketing for TSMC.

"We are excited to see the successful results of Fire and Ice QXC when applied to TSMC's nanometer processes", said Charlie Huang, Corporate Vice President of Business Development at Cadence.

"Our support of TSMC's processes confirms our leadership in parasitic extraction, providing customers critical solutions to their nanometer design issues".

Fire and Ice QXC integrates seamlessly with the Cadence Encounter(tm) 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 detailed standard parasitic format (DSPF) or standard parasitic exchange format (SPEF).

Fire and Ice QXC also integrates easily with any standard place-and-route or analysis flow via industry standard file formats.

Fire and Ice QXC is available now.

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