CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
3 March 2008
Implementation Investments
PrimeYield LCC Enables Litho-Clean Tapeout for LG Electronics HDTV Application Chipset
Synopsys, Inc. announced that LG Electronics (LGE) has successfully discovered and fixed lithography hotspots in its HDTV application chipset using Synopsys' PrimeYield LCC (lithography compliance checker). The HDTV application chipset, a high-volume design on TSMC 65nm technology, is intended for use in high-definition television. PrimeYield LCC enables designers to avoid having to either respin their designs due to missing litho hotspots or rely on a post-tapeout foundry service that could take one to four weeks to perform the litho verification.
To accurately flag critical hotspots, PrimeYield LCC utilizes encrypted manufacturing information from the foundry. Using this information together with Synopsys' Proteus optical proximity correction (OPC) technology, PrimeYield LCC creates a "virtual fab" to provide fast and accurate results on the designer's desktop. In addition to flagging litho- hotspot results in a format similar to design rule checking (DRC), PrimeYield LCC provides correction guidance to the Synopsys IC Compiler place-and-route solution.
This auto-correction link between PrimeYield LCC and IC Compiler was the key to LG Electronics' selection of PrimeYield LCC. According to Woo-Hyun Paik, vice president of LG Electronics, System IC Business Unit, "As a longtime customer, we're familiar with the benefits of Synopsys' physical design products. With PrimeYield LCC, we were able to extend those benefits into manufacturing to deliver a zero-defect design to the foundry."
"PrimeYield LCC extends DRC by performing accurate and foundry-qualified lithography checks," said Antun Domic, Synopsys senior vice president and Implementation Group general manager. "The successful use of PrimeYield LCC for high-volume chips such as the LGE HDTV application chipset is a testament to the tool's value in avoiding litho-induced design respins."
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