Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Synopsys | Subject: DesignWare
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 10 February 2004
Library gains input from TSMC
TSMC's libraries will now be distributed through the Synopsys DesignWare library
This collaboration provides more than 25,000 DesignWare library users, at no additional cost, access to standard cell and I/O libraries created by TSMC and optimised for the company's 0.15um, 0.13um and 90nm Nexsys technology for SoC foundry processes. Synopsys will also offer TSMC's memory libraries for an additional fee.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 February 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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This agreement is the latest collaboration in a long-term relationship between the two companies.
The agreement provides that both companies will optimise TSMC's standard cell and I/O libraries and produce design flows that deliver higher productivity and design quality to users.
The libraries are validated in TSMC Reference Flow 4.0, an RTL-to-GDSII flow comprised of leading EDA tools, including tools from the Synopsys Galaxy platform.
As a result of cooperative research and development efforts, TSMC libraries currently support all Synopsys views used in the design flow, including: lib, with noise modeling capabilities; db; plib; pdb; Apollo; Astro; and the Synopsys Milkyway design database, as well as other EDA formats.
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This integration was achieved using Synopsys' Liberty open standard library specification and Milkyway.
TSMC libraries are developed and process-tuned to TSMC semiconductor technologies.
Each logic and I/O cell is validated in silicon and meets the company's rigorous library quality criteria.
TSMC libraries are in volume production, in multiple customer designs.
"During the past three years, we've worked closely with Synopsys to enhance TSMC's libraries for optimal performance and operation in TSMC Reference Flows, which include tools from Synopsys' Galaxy design platform", said Genda Hu, Vice President of Marketing at TSMC.
"Offering TSMC's libraries through Synopsys' DesignWare Library provides easy access for a broad population of designers targeting TSMC's advanced technologies".
"Synopsys and TSMC are responding to designer requests to provide a complete RTL-to-GDSII design environment", said John Chilton, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Synopsys' Solutions Group.
"By adding to Synopsys' already extensive DesignWare IP Solution, this new library distribution agreement extends our collaborative efforts to decrease designers' project risk and time-to-production on TSMC's deep submicron technologies".
The TSMC 0.15um, 0.13um and 90nm standard cell and I/O libraries' front-end views are available today from the Synopsys website to DesignWare library licensees under current maintenance, and back-end views will be available at the end of calendar Q1 2004.
TSMC's memory libraries for specific process technologies are expected to be available from Synopsys at the end of calendar Q1 2004 for an additional fee.
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