WILSONVILLE, Ore., April 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentor Graphics
Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the new Calibre® xACT™
parasitic extraction platform that addresses a wide spectrum of
analog and digital extraction needs, including 14nm FinFET, while
minimizing guesswork and setup efforts for IC designers. The
Calibre xACT platform delivers the best combination of accuracy and
turnaround time (TAT) by automatically optimizing its extraction
techniques for the customer's specific process node, application,
design size, and extraction objectives. Customers using the Calibre
xACT platform for parasitic extraction have experienced
improvements in turnaround time as high as 10X, while meeting the
most stringent accuracy requirements.
Samsung has worked extensively with Mentor Graphics on the
development and qualification of the Calibre xACT platform for
14nm, and used it during technology development because of the high
accuracy it provides. The Calibre xACT product's ability to employ
a single rule deck for a range of extraction applications allows
customers to get the accuracy and fast TAT they need without having
to manually modify their rule decks or tool configuration.
"After careful benchmarking of the leading extraction products,
we selected Calibre xACT to be our reference signoff extraction
tool for all of our next generation designs," said Dragomir Nikolic, CAD Director, Cypress
Semiconductor. "This includes products at the 90nm and 65nm process
nodes. We found Calibre xACT to have the best combination of high
accuracy and fast turnaround available among extraction products
targeting leading-edge nodes. We also see great value in the
ability to use a single extraction tool to produce optimum results
across a wide variety of applications, from transistor level to
full chip digital extraction."
Circuit designers have to wrestle with performance versus
accuracy throughout the design cycle. Parasitic extraction is no
different. With the leading process nodes using more complex FinFET
devices, design engineers are pushing for tighter accuracy, while
also needing higher performance and capacity for billion transistor
designs. In fact, all process nodes are seeing growing complexity
with the mix of memory, analog, standard cell, and custom digital
content in modern ICs. This complexity poses a range of different
challenges for extraction tools. To meet these requirements the
Calibre xACT platform uses a combination of compact model, field
solver and efficient multi-CPU scaling technologies to ensure
robust accuracy as well as turnaround performance needed to meet
schedule deadlines.
The Calibre xACT extraction platform is integrated with the
entire Calibre product line for a seamless verification flow,
including the Calibre nmLVS™ product for complete transistor-level
modeling, and the Calibre xACT 3D product for targeted,
extreme-accuracy extraction applications. It also interoperates
with third-party design environments and formats to ensure
compatibility with existing design and simulation flows.
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 and Calibre are registered trademarks and xACT
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:
Gene
Forte
Mentor Graphics
503.685.1193
gene_forte@mentor.com
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