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26 May 2009

Implementation Investments

Mentor Graphics Announces All-Calibre Physical Verification and DFM Flow for Advanced IC Designs at Fujitsu Microelectronics

Mentor Graphics Corporation announced that Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited has qualified and adopted the Calibre design-to-silicon platform for physical verification and design-for-manufacturing (DFM) of advanced IC products. Fujitsu Microelectronics’ Mentor-based flow includes the sign-off standard Calibre® verification platform with Calibre nmDRC, LVS, and xRC™ tools, and Mentor’s comprehensive DFM solution for manufacturing variability, an integrated tool suite for critical area analysis, litho-friendly design, and 3D variability. The 3D variability solution provides improved planarity by enabling highly optimized fill based on either complex geometry-based rules, or full thickness (CMP) simulation.

“Fujitsu Microelectronics’ leading-edge technologies require tight control over thickness variation. Density-based fill is a starting point and an improvement over traditional dummy fill, but at smaller features sizes our analysis shows that we need to consider more than just density,” said Noboru Yokota, General Manager of the Technology Development Division at Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited. “The Mentor solution is unique because it can handle complex equations combining all the factors required to compute an optimum fill that achieves our planarity goals with as few added shapes as possible.”

“Our long-term partnership with Fujitsu Microelectronics has resulted in a complete solution that meets Fujitsu Microelectronics’ verification and DFM requirements for their latest IC designs regardless of which process offering is being targeted,” said Joseph Sawicki, Vice President and General Manager of the Design-to-Silicon division at Mentor Graphics. “Our customers are moving to all-Mentor flows because we offer both the best-in-class technology for each design task, as well as the ease of integration and use that can only be achieved with a single integrated platform and tools built from the ground up to work together seamlessly.”

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