CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
28 July 2004
Implementation Investments
SMIC Adopts Synopsys' Proteus OPC Software for 130 Nanometer Node
Synopsys, Inc. announced the adoption of its ProteusT optical proximity correction (OPC) software at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) for production at the 130 nanometer (nm) process. Proteus will enable SMIC to obtain OPC results within hours and reduce mask synthesis turn-around-time.
Proteus plays an increasingly critical role in enabling optical lithography to keep pace with shrinking chip dimensions such as those at 130nm. OPC correction at smaller geometries requires significantly more processing time. Proteus' architecture provides near-linear scalability that allows customers to reduce turn-around-time by using inexpensive Linux-based central processing unit (CPU) clusters. Several leading-edge semiconductor companies have deployed Proteus to reduce mask synthesis turn-around-time from days to hours.
Synopsys DFM product family addresses critical yield and manufacturability issues with its software products: Proteus mask synthesis, CATST mask data preparation, SiVL® lithography verification, iVirtual StepperT mask defect dispositioning and TaurusT TCAD. Synopsys leverages this expertise through its GalaxyT design platform implementation solution in order to help ensure that designs at 90nm and smaller geometries will meet key manufacturing requirements. Synopsys' DFM product family is the solution-of-choice for 130nm yield sensitive, high-value chips worldwide, 80 percent of all sub-180nm microprocessors, 50 percent of all sub-180nm DRAMs, 80 percent of all sub-180nm FPGA and graphics chips, 75 percent of all sub-180nm cellular baseband chips produced use Proteus, and more than 80 percent of all photomasks produced use CATS.
SMIC is one of the leading semiconductor foundries in the world. As a foundry, SMIC provides integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing at 0.35-micron to 0.13-micron technologies. In addition to IC manufacturing, SMIC provides customers with a full range of services, including design services, mask manufacturing and wafer probe test. For more information, please visit http://www.smics.com/ .
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