CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
16 June 2004
Implementation Investments
Prolific Welcomes Leading Semiconductor Company to Its Advanced Standard Cell Technology; Leading IC Manufacturer uses Prolific for Advanced Memory Design
Prolific Inc. a provider of design optimization and automated standard cell creation software, announced that Samsung Electronics selected ProGenesis® to accelerate the development of its standard cell libraries, the key building blocks of digital integrated circuit (IC) design. The ProGenesis family of tools is used for fully automated creation and migration of standard cell libraries.
ProGenesis users can create complete standard cell libraries today, and automatically re-create at will whenever the design rules or any other design requirements change. Automatic integration of these changes is especially important in leading-edge applications, because lithography "recipe" changes can occur mid-project.
Prolific's ProGenesis offers fully automated creation of standard cells. Key to the tools' success is their ability to generate better-than-hand-drawn quality results in significantly less time than that of other tools or traditional methods. ProGenesis supports all 1.0 micron to 65nm process design rules, Design For Manufacture (DFM) practices to increase silicon yield and reliability, and sub-wavelength optimization Resolution Enhancement Techniques (RET): Optical Proximity Correction (OPC); Strong and Attenuated Phase-Shift Mask (PSM); Scattering Bars (SB); and Off-Axis Illumination (OAI).
"After careful study, Prolific tools were chosen for Samsung advance process and design methodology due to their technology, business model, and superior customer support," stated Yoo Moon-Hyun, vice president of the semiconductor CAE team at Samsung Electronics. "Prolific ProGenesis well supports the requirements of advanced memory design."
Based in Silicon Valley, Prolific Inc. provides software to enable the design of today's most demanding integrated circuits optimizing quality of results with respect to timing, power, area and yield, and at the same time reducing overall design time and costs. ProTimingT is the first commercially available optimization tool integrated into the STA step of the physical design flow. ProTiming gives IC designers up to 20% improvement in timing and power in a no-risk, fully automated and integrated flow. For more information, visit http://www.prolificinc.com
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