WILSONVILLE, Ore., June 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentor Graphics
Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that Intel Custom Foundry is
expanding its 14nm platform offering to include reliability
verification based on the Calibre® PERC™ platform for its
customers. Intel and Mentor Graphics jointly developed an initial
set of electrical checks to help improve IC dependability, and are
also collaborating to add additional check types over time for
foundry customers on Intel's 14nm process.
"Collaborating with Mentor on a comprehensive suite of
reliability checks helps ensure that mutual customer designs
achieve the highest level of dependability, quality, and robustness
for the Intel 14nm platform which includes the second generation of
tri-gate transistors in high-volume manufacturing," said
Venkat Immaneni, Senior Director,
Foundry Design Kit Enablement for Intel Custom Foundry. "We are
pleased to be able to expand the number of solutions Intel Custom
Foundry offers on the Mentor Calibre platform to include critical
checks for reliability verification."
Intel Custom Foundry will provide customers with Calibre PERC
rule decks that perform reliability checks designed to address
customers' advanced circuit verification needs for electrostatic
discharge (ESD), electrical overstress (EOS), signals crossing
multiple power domains, and other reliability concerns. The Calibre
PERC tool makes it possible to automate complex reliability checks
by integrating knowledge of both the physical layout and the design
netlist, which defines device types and connectivity.
This certification initiative is an extension of the 14nm
enablement collaboration between Intel Custom Foundry and Mentor
Graphics over the past year. Joint efforts have resulted in
significant runtime improvements, a reduction in memory
requirements for Calibre nmDRC and Calibre nmLVS, as well as
optimizations and certification for the Analog FastSPICE (AFS)
platform to support Intel Custom Foundry's device models and design
kits.
"Our ongoing work with Intel Custom Foundry gives our mutual
customers an industry leading signoff environment with excellent
performance," said Joseph Sawicki,
vice president and general manager of the Design-to-Silicon
division at Mentor Graphics. "With the addition of Calibre
PERC-based reliability checking to the Intel Custom Foundry 14nm
offering, we continue to proactively deliver the exacting
capabilities needed for advanced process nodes."
Intel has started to make the Calibre PERC tool's reliability
checks available to customers of Intel Custom Foundry on the 14nm
platform.
For more information on Intel Custom Foundry, please visit
Intel.com/Foundry.
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation is a world leader in electronic
hardware and software design solutions, providing products,
consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most
successful electronic, semiconductor and systems companies.
Established in 1981, the company reported revenues in the last
fiscal year in excess of $1.24
billion. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W.
Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon
97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.
(Mentor Graphics, Mentor, and Calibre are registered trademarks
and PERC is a trademark, and PERC, nmDRC, and nmLVS are trademarks
of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names
are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective
owners.)
For more information, please contact:
David Smith
Mentor Graphics
503.685.1135
david_smith@mentor.com
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