Brion's Tachyon OPC+ Selected by NEC Electronics to Enable 40nm IC Production.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- Brion Technologies, an ASML ASML Abstract State Machine Language ASML Anisotropic Shielded Microstrip Line company, today announced that Japan's NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Electronics Corp. has placed a significant order for Brion's Tachyon tachyon (tăk`ēŏn'), hypothetical elementary particle that travels only at speeds exceeding that of light. According to the theory of relativity, the speed of light is the limiting velocity for all ordinary material particles. [TM] OPC (1) (OpenGL Performance Characterization) A project group within GPC that manages OpenGL benchmarks. OPC endorses the Viewperf and GLperf benchmarks. Viewperf was created by IBM and OPC provides viewsets for it, which are combinations of tests using specific + optical proximity correction Optical proximity correction (OPC) is a photolithography enhancement technique commonly used to compensate for image errors due to diffraction or process effects. The two most common applications for OPC are linewidth differences between features in regions of different density (e. (OPC) product, which will help to enable NEC's production of next-generation 40 nanometer (nm) integrated circuits. Tachyon OPC+ allows chip makers to achieve highly accurate low-k1 lithography by improving design printability without sacrificing throughput or affordability. Since installing Tachyon OPC+ in December, NEC chip designers have been able to use Brion's industry-leading OPC capabilities to avoid patterning problems that can affect the manufacturing yields of chips with extremely small features. NEC began using Brion's Tachyon RDI RDI - Receiver Data Interface lithography simulation and design inspection system two years ago to verify and inspect 65nm RET/OPC designs. Adding Tachyon OPC+ allows NEC to further optimize production flows on an integrated hardware and software platform. "Consolidating all our computational lithography tools on the Tachyon platform is a natural progression for NEC," said Shuichi Inoue, general manager, process technology division, at NEC's manufacturing operations unit. "Brion offers a complete suite of computational lithography tools, which work together to provide both productivity and cost of ownership benefits." "We are pleased to be able to support all of NEC's computational lithography needs," said Noriaki Kikuchi, president, Japan operations, Brion Technologies KK. "We're excited that such a notable consumer electronics company recognizes the advantages of Brion's technology, and our ability to support their current and future needs." About k1 Lithographers use the "process factor" k1 to express the relative difficulty of a given lithography process. Improvements in lithography system capabilities, photoresist processes, and masks enable lithography at smaller k1 values, which in turn allows chipmakers to produce devices with increasingly smaller features, with minimal sacrifice of process latitude. About Brion Technologies Brion Technologies is an ASML company and industry leader in computational lithography for integrated circuits. Brion's Tachyon[TM] platform, an OPC and OPC verification system, enables capabilities that address chip design, photomask making and wafer printing for semiconductor manufacturing. Brion is headquartered in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. . For more information: www.brion.com or www.ASML.com (c) 2008 Brion Technologies. All rights reserved. Brion Technologies, the Brion Technologies logo, and Tachyon are trademarks of Brion Technologies. |
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