Cadence Design Systems announced that Toshiba has adopted Cadence QRC Extraction for its most advanced 65nm design flows.
Cadence QRC Extraction provides silicon-accurate parasitic extraction for
next-generation process nodes, including sensitivity-based and chemical-mechanical
polishing model-based extraction.
"To address our design and methodology requirements at 65nm and beyond, we require
a solution that can deliver exceptional accuracy and includes advanced statistical
and silicon variation modeling," said Takashi Yoshimori, technology executive,
SoC-Design of Toshiba's semiconductor company. "After an extensive evaluation
process, we found that Cadence QRC Extraction meets our requirements for 65nm
accuracy today, and we have confidence that it will continue to meet our
requirements for 65- and 45nm, giving us the ability to move into lower and lower
geometries."
Cadence QRC Extraction provides manufacturing-aware silicon accuracy over other
extraction technologies for cell-based digital designs. It dramatically reduces
processing time with its near-linear performance scalability across multiple
network CPUs and compute farms, said Cadence. It also delivers robust multi-corner
support and native incremental signoff extraction to the Cadence Encounter digital
IC platform.