ProPlus Design Solutions, Inc. today announced that eSilicon Corporation, a leading independent semiconductor design and manufacturing solutions provider, has selected its high-performance parallel SPICE simulator and its variation analysis platform for advanced intellectual property (IP) designs at 28-nanometer (nm), 16nm and beyond.
eSilicon selected ProPlus' NanoSpice for its high accuracy and superior performance, which are needed to tackle the increasing challenges of advanced designs, such as memory characterization, large block simulation and verification. eSilicon also adopted NanoYield for its highly accurate and high-performance high-sigma technologies to analyze the impact of process variations on analog and memory designs, in order to achieve optimum yield versus power, performance and area trade-offs.
Both tools have been validated by intensive evaluations for different types of designs and implemented into eSilicon's design flow to help eSilicon develop and deliver complex integrated circuits (ICs) and various memory and custom IP offerings. The tools' technological advantages, including NanoSpice's superior parallel performance with a pure SPICE engine, and NanoYield's industry-leading high-sigma technology on an integrated design for yield (DFY) platform, bring unique value to support eSilicon's world-class custom memory IP offerings.
"We develop custom IP on advanced process nodes, such as 16FF and 14LPP, which require characterization and verification tools with high accuracy, high capacity and high throughput," says Lisa Minwell, senior director, IP marketing at eSilicon. "ProPlus' NanoSpice and NanoYield are particularly valuable on these advanced nodes where the statistical variation is large."
"eSilicon is recognized as a successful and innovative company with exacting requirements to ensure it meets its customers' needs," notes Dr. Zhihong Liu, chairman and chief executive officer of ProPlus Design Solutions. "Our high-speed, high-capacity NanoSpice simulator and NanoYield high-sigma analysis tool bring unique accuracy, performance and economic value to companies doing leading-edge design. We welcome the opportunity to be part of eSilicon's success."
