CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
14 July 2008
Product News
Magma's Knights Camelot CAD Navigation Solution Now Links to Mentor Graphics YieldAssist Fault Diagnostic Engine
Magma® Design Automation Inc. announced it has worked with Mentor Graphics® to create an interface that links Mentor's YieldAssist™ test failure diagnostic engine to Magma's Knights Camelot™ CAD navigation for failure analysis. The interface allows the set of defective nets and locations from YieldAssist to be directly read and displayed inside of Magma's Camelot Navigation system. This integration eliminates any user translation between systems and enables faster and easier failure analysis.
Once in Camelot, failed-net information can be cross-mapped between the layout and the schematic, and communicated to fab and failure analysis tools for fast product debug and device analysis.
"Camelot's design analysis and CAD navigation capabilities are well known within the failure analysis community," said Greg Aldrich, director of marketing for Design-for-Test products at Mentor Graphics. "With the combination of YieldAssist and Camelot our mutual customers get more value from scan-based testing and save considerable time and effort getting to the root cause of silicon failures."
"Our goal is to enable true design for manufacturability by providing effective, streamlined solutions to failure analysis engineers," said Ankush Oberai, vice president of Magma's Fab Analysis Business Unit. "By automating the interface between YieldAssist and Camelot, Mentor and Magma have set a new standard in accuracy and throughput."
YieldAssist: Accurate Results and High Throughput
Mentor's YieldAssist advanced test failure diagnosis tool provides a comprehensive set of functionality to analyze devices that fail manufacturing test. YieldAssist leverages production scan-test patterns generated by Mentor's FastScan™ ATPG tool and TestKompress® test-pattern compression tool and memory test results from Mentor's MBISTArchitect™ to rapidly and accurately identify and isolate yield-limiting defect areas.
YieldAssist has been optimized to provide both accurate results and high throughput. This enables it to be used online during the manufacturing process or in the failure analysis lab.
Camelot: Industry Standard for Failure Analysis
Magma's Camelot software system is the next-generation CAD navigation standard for failure analysis, design-debug and yield improvement analysis. Camelot optimizes the equipment and personnel resources of design and semiconductor failure analysis labs by providing computer interfaces and navigation capabilities for more than 50 different types of analysis and test equipment. Its application tools, features, options and networking capability provide a complete, integrated system for fast and efficient investigation and resolution of inspection, test and analysis jobs. Camelot also enables closer collaboration between product and design groups with failure analysis labs, thus dramatically improving time to yield and market.
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