CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
10 June 2009
Product News
Apache’s Power and Noise Integrity Solutions Certified to Support TSMC’s Unified Interconnect Modeling Format
Apache Design Solutions announced that the Company’s RedHawk has been certified to support TSMC’s iRCX 65nm and 40nm technologies. In addition, RedHawk is included in the TSMC Integrated Sign-off Flow, a pre-packaged and pre-qualified design flow for 65nm process technology.
RedHawk’s integrated parasitic extraction, library characterization, and dynamic simulation perform full-chip power, noise, and reliability analyses. The iRCX format unifies the delivery of process data and ensures its integrity across qualified resistance/capacitance (RC) extraction, power / electromigration (EM) analysis, and electromagnetic (EMI) tools. With the unified iRCX format, TSMC’s customers can reduce tool evaluation efforts and improve design accuracy for first time silicon success.
RedHawk was selected as the power integrity (IR-drop) and EM analysis solution for the Integrated Sign-off Flow, a fully-packaged turnkey design flow that tightly integrates pre-qualified technology files, library, IP, and EDA tools, along with production-proven automated script for quick setup and sign-off. This enables TSMC foundry customers to utilize RedHawk within its extensively tested and qualified flow.
“The iRCX Qualification Program enables designers to effectively select pre-qualified EDA tools that match their design needs and ease the adoption of TSMC advanced process technologies,” said Tom Quan, deputy director, Design Service Marketing at TSMC. “Our collaboration with EDA vendors such as Apache allows our mutual customers to reach faster time-to-market while reducing design risks.”
“Apache and TSMC have had a long standing collaboration to bring the best-in-class power and noise integrity solutions to the market, starting with Reference Flow 5.0,” said Dian Yang, senior vice president of Apache. “iRCX certification of RedHawk and its inclusion in Integrated Sign-off Flow further strengthens our cooperation and enables us to deliver a predictable and accurate sign-off solution for our customers.”
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