ASML extends holistic patterning strategy with Cadence partnership
February 28 2017 - 10:45AM
San Jose, California, 28 February 2017 - ASML
Holding NV (ASML) today announced a partnership with Cadence Design
Systems, Inc. to expand the capabilities of its holistic
lithography product portfolio, further streamlining chipmakers'
process flow from design to mask production. The collaboration will
bring together ASML's computational lithography solutions and the
Cadence physical design back-end tools, leading to enhanced Design
Technology Co-Optimization (DTCO) capabilities for advanced nodes,
and other technologies.
"In the face of shrinking process nodes, engineers
are increasingly relying on designer-friendly, production-accurate
manufacturability checks throughout the design phase to realize
tighter imaging performance and cycle time goals," said Dr. Anirudh
Devgan, senior vice president and general manager of the Digital
& Signoff Group and the System & Verification Group at
Cadence. "Together with ASML, we are now able to efficiently bridge
the gap between design and manufacturing, empowering our customers
to take better control of their design intent, reliability and
yield through improved lithography awareness capabilities."
As part of its holistic lithography approach, ASML
has developed powerful lithography and patterning models that can
simulate how a chip design is realized in silicon, representing the
actual manufacturing processes. The integration of these design
models into Cadence products enables DTCO to deliver optimal design
scaling while securing manufacturability and yield.
As the first result of their collaboration, the
newly released CadenceĀ® LPA PLUS enables engineers to simulate the
manufacturability of their design at any time during implementation
and signoff, enabling more efficient delivery of high-quality
designs.
ASML's partnership with Cadence represents another
major step toward realizing a full end-to-end design-to-mask
process flow. When combined with an earlier partnership with NCS,
engineers can now leverage litho-aware design and mask data
preparation on a seamlessly integrated platform.
"Since ASML's early days, we've developed our
systems in a cooperative network of partners, a practice we call
Open Innovation," said Christophe Fouquet, Executive Vice President
of Applications at ASML. "This enables us to remain focused on
developing our core holistic lithography technology leadership in
modeling, scanner imaging and patterning process control, while
leveraging our partnerships to deliver improved cycle time and
productivity along the whole value chain from design technology
development to production implementation of the physical design,
mask design, and mask data preparation."
About ASML
ASML is one of the world's leading manufacturers of chip-making
equipment. Our vision is to enable affordable microelectronics that
improve the quality of life. To achieve this, our mission is to
invent, develop, manufacture and service advanced technology for
high-tech lithography, metrology and software solutions for the
semiconductor industry. ASML's guiding principle is continuing
Moore's Law towards ever smaller, cheaper, more powerful and
energy-efficient semiconductors. This results in increasingly
powerful and capable electronics that enable the world to progress
within a multitude of fields, including healthcare, technology,
communications, energy, mobility, and entertainment. ASML is a
multinational company with offices in 60 cities in 16 countries,
headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands. We employ more than
16,500 people on payroll and flexible contracts (expressed in full
time equivalents). ASML is traded on Euronext Amsterdam and NASDAQ
under the symbol ASML. More information about ASML, our products
and technology, and career opportunities is available on
www.asml.com.
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with Cadence fails to become successful or that it may not benefit
our holistic lithography product portfolio as anticipated, product
demand and semiconductor equipment industry capacity, worldwide
demand and manufacturing capacity utilization for semiconductors
(the principal product of our customer base), including the impact
of general economic conditions on consumer confidence and demand
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impact of any manufacturing efficiencies and capacity constraints,
performance of our systems, the continuing success of technology
advances and the related pace of new product development, our
ability to enforce patents and protect intellectual property
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