WILSONVILLE, Ore., Nov. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentor Graphics
Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced it is collaborating with
GLOBALFOUNDRIES to qualify the Mentor® RTL to GDS
platform, including the RealTime Designer™ physical RTL synthesis
solution and Olympus-SoC™ place & route system, for the current
version of the GLOBALFOUNDRIES® 22FDX™ platform reference
flow. In addition, Mentor and GLOBALFOUNDRIES are working on the
development of the Process Design Kit (PDK) for the 22FDX platform.
The PDK includes support for the Mentor Calibre®
platform, covering design rule checking (DRC), layout vs. schematic
(LVS) and metal fill solutions for 22FDX. These solutions help
mutual customers optimize their designs using the capability of
22FDX technology to manage the power, performance and leakage.
"We are collaborating closely with Mentor Graphics on enabling
their products to help customers realize the benefits of the 22FDX
platform," said Pankaj Mayor, vice
president of Business Development for GLOBALFOUNDRIES. "The
qualification of Mentor tools for implementation flows and design
verification will help designers to achieve an optimal balance
between power, performance and cost."
In design flows for advanced technologies, RealTime Designer™
addresses the need for higher capacity, faster runtimes, improved
quality of results (QoR) and integrated floorplanning capabilities.
For 22FDX in particular, it offers support for multi-VDD designs
based on the Unified Power Format (UPF), multi-Vt optimization,
leakage and dynamic power analysis and optimization, and a unique
RTL-level floorplanning technology for improved QoR and runtimes.
The Olympus-SoC™ tool comprehensively addresses the performance,
capacity, time-to-market, power, and variability challenges
encountered at advanced technologies. Support for 22FDX includes
low power capabilities such as multi-VDD flow, concurrent
multi-corner multi-mode timing and power optimization, forward and
reverse bias handling, and DCAP cell insertion on power meshes for
noise reduction.
"Our customers are designing some of the most complex chips for
mobile, wireless, networking and graphics products," said
Pravin Madhani, general manager of
the IC Implementation Group at Mentor Graphics. "Our collaboration
with GLOBALFOUNDRIES will enable us to deliver advanced digital
implementation flows for the 22FDX platform for our mutual
customers."
The Calibre nmDRC™, Calibre nmLVS™, and Calibre YieldEnhancer
tools provide the verification functionality available in the 22FDX
PDK. Core DRC and LVS verification are provided by the Calibre
nmDRC and Calibre nmLVS tools, respectively. Calibre YieldEnhancer
with SmartFill helps designers meet planarity and density
requirements, and minimize post-fill timing changes, by
intelligently and automatically filling designs with the optimum
distribution and placement of fill shapes.
The next release of the 22FDX PDK will place GLOBALFOUNDRIES
differentiated DFM capabilities into the hands of designers. The
industry-leading DRC+, Manufacturing Analysis and Scoring (MAS),
and Yield Enhancement Services™ (YES) design kit offerings from
GLOBALFOUNDRIES, all based upon the Calibre platform, assist design
teams in analyzing the manufacturability impact of their design
styles with the 22FDX process technology. The DRC+
methodology uses fast pattern-matching capabilities in the Calibre
Pattern Matching tool to identify lithographically problematic
patterns, then uses Calibre nmDRC to enforce tighter design
constraints where those patterns occur. The MAS and YES
methodologies help reduce manufacturing variability: MAS employs
the DFM Scoring functionality in Calibre YieldAnalyzer to score IP
blocks and SoCs across all layers; in the YES service,
GLOBALFOUNDRIES engineers use the layout modification capabilities
in Calibre YieldEnhancer to modify edges and via placements to
improve the robustness of the layout.
"By incorporating the most advanced Calibre analysis and
verification capabilities into its 22FDX platform,
GLOBALFOUNDRIES is giving designers the tools they need to build
robustness into their products," said Joseph Sawicki, vice president, Design to
Silicon Division at Mentor Graphics. "This not only ensures
high-quality designs are delivered for fabrication, but also will
help ensure faster ramps to production."
Mentor Graphics and GLOBALFOUNDRIES are working on supporting
advanced extraction and reliability verification sign-off
capabilities for Calibre xACT™ and Calibre PERC™ solutions.
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 RealTime Designer, Olympus-SoC, nmDRC, nmLVS, Yield Enhancement
Services, PERC, and xACT 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
503.685.1193
david_smith@mentor.com
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