Celestry Announces Selection of its IC Performance Improvement Tools by STMicroelectronics; Celestry's reliability analysis maximizes performance and yield.Business/Technology Editors DATE Conference PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2002 Celestry Design Technologies, Inc. (San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , USA), the leading provider of Silicon Accurate Sign-off(TM) physical analysis software and services for the semiconductor and electronics industry, today announced that STMicroelectronics (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) A microscope that can image down to the atomic level. An STM uses a piezoelectric tube with a tiny sharp tip at the end that is moved within nanometers of the object being sampled. ) has selected Celestry's Hot-Carrier Injection (HCI (Human Computer Interaction) Refers to the design and implementation of computer systems that people interact with. It includes desktop systems as well as embedded systems in all kinds of devices. ) analysis products to increase the performance of ST's high-end designs. To increase circuit performance without risking excessive yield failures, a designer must analyze and address reliability. Celestry's RelPro+(TM), a device-level reliability analyzer, BSIMPro(TM) a model parameter extractor and RelXpert(TM), a circuit-level reliability simulator -- enable designers to intelligently manage performance and yield tradeoffs. "We focus on maximizing density, performance and yield for our many high-volume circuits," said Philippe Margarshack, Group Vice-President, Central R&D, STMicroelectronics. "With Celestry's products we can design more aggressively in our 0.13um CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. and BICMOS (BIpolarCMOS) A type of integrated circuit that uses both bipolar and CMOS technologies. The logic gates are primarily made of CMOS, but their output stages use bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). processes, and obtain higher performance and better density products for our Computer Peripherals and Consumer markets, while at the same time not compromising yield and long-term reliability." Emmanuel Vincent, Reliability Manager, Central R&D, STMicroelectronics, added, "For our high performance designs, HCI is an important issue. Celestry's products make it easy for our designers to assess and prevent circuit-level reliability issues caused by HCI effects. We are also investigating other process reliability issues like NBTI NBTi News by Teens International (website) NBTI Negative Biased Temperature Instability with Celestry." "We are very pleased to have our reliability tools selected by ST, a leading global manufacturer of high-performance products," said Dr. Zhihong Liu, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Celestry. "The endorsement from ST confirms that yield and performance problems of today's IC processes must be addressed now." About Celestry Celestry is the leading provider of physical design and analysis products that enable integrated circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for designers to achieve optimal performance from semi conductor process technologies. The Company offers software and services to electronic and semiconductor companies involved with the design of chips that are used in networking, communication, multimedia and computing products. For more information, visit www.celestry.com or email info@celestry.com. Notes to Editors: For more details on how reliability issues like HCI and NBTI affect IC design performance and manufacturing yield, please refer to www.celestry.com/reliability. Acronyms: HCI: Hot-Carrier Injection IC: Integrated Circuit NBTI: Negative Bias Temperature Instability Celestry, the Celestry logo, Silicon Accurate Sign-off, BSIMPro, RelPro and RelXpert are trademarks of Celestry Design Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks and tradenames are the property of their respective owners. |
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