News Release from: Pyxis Technology
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 11 July 2006

Alliance bridges gap from design to manufacture

Alliance bridges the gap between design and manufacturing by bringing together design for manufacturability (DFM) routing technology from Pyxis and yield sensitivity analysis from Ponte.

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Pyxis Technology and Ponte Solutions have announced an alliance to bridge the gap between design and manufacturing by bringing together the design for manufacturability (DFM) routing technology from Pyxis and yield sensitivity analysis from Ponte. This alliance will provide a streamlined physical design flow with yield incorporated into the routing phase. Users of Ponte can bring its deep analysis of yield killers into the Pyxis routing environment for fixing critical yield issues while maintaining design closure with respect to other design goals such as area, timing and power.

'Yield sensitivity can make designs at 65nm and below prohibitive'.

'Designers need a way to both analyse as well as optimise full-chip integrated circuit designs'.

'This alliance provides a solid foundation for a new paradigm in yield-driven design methodology for sub-100nm designs', said Nitin Deo, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Ponte Solutions.

Ponte's technology identifies both random and systematic yield issues as hot spots for full-chip integrated circuit (IC) design layouts.

The intensity of a hot spot varies depending on physical design pattern.

The Pyxis router can view the yield hot spots and correct the layout, accounting for timing and yield.

'Yield and manufacturability issues now permeate all layers of sub-100nm designs'.

'A new DFM solution is required that analyses and fixes full-chip IC designs at the interconnect level'.

'Pyxis' architecture is uniquely suited to take advantage of the analysis that Ponte provides'.

'All major foundries have certified Ponte's software models, which it makes it very attractive for us to work with them on developing a true DFM solution', said Naeem Zafar, President and CEO of Pyxis Technology.

Pyxis will be demonstrating its technology at Booth 2323 at the 43rd Design Automation Conference (DAC 2006) in San Francisco from 24th to 27th July 2006.

Ponte will be exhibiting at DAC in Booth 2204.

CEOs from both companies also will be participating in a panel discussion on return on investment from new DFM techniques on Thursday 27th July from 1630 to 1800.

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