Apache's Power and Noise Integrity Solutions Certified to Support TSMC's Unified Interconnect Modeling Format.RedHawk Included in TSMC TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation TSMC Traffic Systems Management Center TSMC Toll Station Management Controller TSMC Transportation Supply Maintenance Command TSMC Technical Services Manager Code Integrated Sign-off Flow for 65nm Process Technology SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- Apache Design Solutions, the technology leader in power and noise integrity for chip, package, and system convergence, today 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 (ElectroMagnetic Interference) An electrical disturbance in a system due to natural phenomena, low-frequency waves from electromechanical devices or high-frequency waves (RFI) from chips and other electronic devices. Allowable limits are governed by the FCC. ) 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 (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. 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." About RedHawk RedHawk is a full-chip Vectorless Dynamic[TM] power sign-off solution for high-performance SoC designs, including those utilizing advanced low power design techniques. It delivers the industry's first mesh pattern recognition technology (MPR (MultiProtocol Router) Software from Novell that provides router capabilities for its NetWare servers. It supports IPX, IP, AppleTalk and OSI protocols as well as all the major LANs and WANs. ) and hierarchical dynamic power engine to handle designs in the excess of 500 million gates with sign-off accuracy. RedHawk enables designers to identify dynamic "hot spots hot spots acute moist dermatitis. ," examine the impact on timing, accurately pinpoint the cause of dynamic voltage drop, and automatically repair the source of supply noise. It considers dynamic power issues such as simultaneous switching output (SSO See single sign-on and CSO. SSO - single sign-on ) for core, memory, clock, and I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output , as well as the impact of on-chip inductance, decoupling Decoupling The occurrence of returns on asset classes diverging from their normal pattern of correlation. Notes: Take for example stock and corporate bond returns, which normally rise and fall together. capacitance, and package / system parasitics. About Apache Design Solutions Apache delivers the industry's leading global power and noise analyses platform solutions for Chip-Package-System convergence. Apache's innovative platforms address the unique power and noise challenges associated with specific design domains such as SoC (digital), analog and custom IP, and System (IC package, SiP, PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. ), while providing a co-analysis environment that integrates the SoC and System worlds. From early-stage to sign-off, Apache's products are adopted by over 100 customers including 90% of the top IDM (1) See identity management. (2) (Integrated Device Manufacturer) A company that performs every step of the chip-making process, including design, manufacture, test and packaging. Examples of IDMs are Intel, AMD, Motorola, IBM, TI and Lucent. , fabless semiconductor, and foundries for cost reduction, risk mitigation, and time-to-market improvements. Apache is a global company with over 150 employees and R&D centers and direct sales / support offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.apache-da.com. Apache Design Solutions, CPM, NSPICE, RedHawk, PakSI-E, PsiWinder, Sahara, Sentinel, Totem, and Vectorless Dynamic are trademarks of Apache Design Solutions, Inc. |
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