Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Clear Shape Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 March 2007
Variability analysis software
on award shortlist
Variability platform products have been nominated for three EDA industry awards
Variability platform products from Clear Shape Technologies have been nominated for three EDA industry awards: the EDN Innovation of the Year Award; the EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Award; and one of the top 10 semiconductor companies' Partner Award. InShape achieved finalist standing in the EDN Innovation Award category for IC back-end/Design for Manufacturing (DFM)/proprietary ASIC and FPGA flows.
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InShape is the first model-based full-chip Design Manufacturability Checker that predicts accurate silicon shapes, providing designers the ability to do fast, accurate DFM hotspot detection of catastrophic failures.
Additionally, InShape produces critical dimension (CD) reports which are a required input for fast and accurate eDFM analysis and optimisation across process window.
Clear Shape was also chosen as finalist for the EE Times ACE Awards Design Team of the Year for its efforts on OutPerform, a comprehensive electrical DFM variability analysis and optimisation solution.
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Electronics company wins creativity award
Clear Shape Technologies has received the EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Award for Design Team of the Year for its OutPerform design team
OutPerform uses the silicon contours predicted by InShape and performs device extraction to compute the difference in timing and leakage power, as well as RC-extraction of interconnect to calculate the change in timing and noise at the full-chip level.
Using this variability-aware analysis and optimisation, designers can prevent catastrophic and parametric failures across process window to save expensive re-spins and lost revenues.
Clear Shape's Variability Platform was selected as finalist for one of the top 10 semiconductor companies' Partner Award.
Clear Shape's Variability Platform includes two products, InShape and OutPerform, and allows designers to analyse and optimise the parametric and catastrophic impact of systematic manufacturing variations.
It makes use of innovative, patented model-based technology which contains secure fab data to capture RET, OPC, CMP, mask, etch and lithography effects on both device and interconnect.
'Clear Shape is offering the first real DFM tool'.
'It's the first one targeted for the designer'.
'All the rest have been post-GDSII tools', says Gary Smith, founder and Chief Analyst of Gary Smith EDA.
'Clear Shape is the only design-technology/DFM company that has been nominated for three of the most prestigious awards in our industry', says Nitin Deo, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Clear Shape.
'We are pleased to see that our innovative solutions are being recognised by our peers', he adds.
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