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News Release from: Cadence Design Systems | Subject: Fire and Ice QX
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 17 November 2004
Cell-based extraction qualified at Chartered
Cadence Design Systems and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing have jointly qualified the Cadence Fire and Ice QX cell-based extraction tool for Chartered's advanced nanometre processes
By integrating Fire and Ice QX into the Chartered-Cadence digital integrated circuit (IC) reference flow, companies can shorten the time from chip design to volume production. Through this collaboration, designers can use Cadence Fire and Ice QX to determine the timing of their designs on Chartered's advanced processes and correctly account for cross coupling capacitances critical for signal integrity (SI) analysis.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 November 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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With its innovative 3D scanning engine and models, Fire and Ice QX is able to accurately model the new classes of manufacturing effects introduced with leading-edge process technologies.
For example, Fire and Ice QX calculates the capacitive effect of dummy metal fill on signal wires, which can complicate timing closure on modern designs.
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Less accurate extraction tools may either overestimate these SI effects resulting in project delays while designers sort through false timing violations, or underestimate the SI effects resulting in undetected timing violations and nonfunctional silicon.
Advanced packages such as flip-chips require wide, non-Manhattan top-level metal routing.
Accurate resistance calculations are required to model these routes correctly.
The resistance engine in Fire and Ice QX has also been significantly enhanced to deliver highly accurate resistance values on these challenging structures.
"Interconnect modelling and extraction are key considerations for companies targeting nanometre process technologies", said Kevin Meyer, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Services at Chartered.
"Collaboration with Cadence enables us to service mutual customers with faster access to prequalified technology files and broader support across Chartered's advanced process platforms".
"By qualifying Cadence Fire and Ice QX to help streamline the design-through-manufacturing flow, companies can predict with greater accuracy the silicon performance of their designs prior to tapeout".
"Open collaboration by companies within the design chain can provide fabless customers the comprehensive solutions needed to address each new technology node", said Jan Willis, Senior Vice President of Industry Marketing at Cadence.
"Working closely with leading foundries such as Chartered ensures that engineers using our digital and custom IC design platforms have a smooth and efficient path from design through physical implementation".
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