Silvaco's Parallel ECAD and TCAD Solutions Now Available on HP Exemplar Servers.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 15, 1998-- Combination of Parallel Software and Multiprocessor Servers Significantly Reduces Simulation Times for IC Design Engineers Hewlett-Packard Company and Silvaco International today announced that Silvaco's suite of TCAD TCAD Technology Computer-Aided Design TCAD Tompkins County Area Development (Ithaca, NY, USA) TCAD Travis Central Appraisal District (Austin, Texas) TCAD Tennessee Commission on Aging and Disability Driven CAD tools have been ported to HP's HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. 11 64-bit UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) system operating environment. Silvaco is the leading supplier of physically based design tools for the semiconductor industry with its high-performance SmartSpice and Atlas tools. These tools have been rewritten as Parallel SmartSpice and Parallel Atlas to utilize the native HP-UX 11 support for parallelism through multithreading Multitasking within a single program. It allows multiple streams of execution to take place concurrently within the same program, each stream processing a different transaction or message. . "Silvaco's TCAD Driven CAD simulation suite now takes full advantage of the Exemplar servers' increased speed and computing power," said Dr. Ivan Pesic(1), president of Silvaco. "The multiple CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. architecture of the Exemplar servers significantly accelerates a single simulation job, thereby slashing simulation times without affecting accuracy." "We are pleased that Silvaco has partnered with HP to provide parallel software on Exemplar multiprocessor servers," said Roy Anderson, 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. market-development manager for HP's High Performance Systems Division. "This ideal combination of IC design solutions overcomes the bottlenecks in design cycles when accurate, but time-consuming, simulations of the global design are necessary." PARALLEL SMARTSPICE SmartSpice from Silvaco provides users with the industry-leading performance required for modern analog design. SmartSpice combines support for advanced device models, including BSIM BSIM Big Sur International Marathon (California) BSIM Berkeley Short-Channel IGFET Model BSIM Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management 3V3.1, SOI (Silicon On Insulator) A chip architecture that increases transistor switching speed by reducing capacitance (build-up of electrical charges in the transistor's elements), and thus reducing the discharge time. The power requirement is also reduced in some designs. , TFT (Thin Film Transistor) The term typically refers to active matrix screens on laptop computers. Active matrix LCD provides a sharper screen display and broader viewing angle than does passive matrix. See LCD and thin film. TFT - Thin Film transistor , VBIC VBIC Virginia Business Information Center VBIC Vertical Bipolar Integrated Circuit VBIC Vertical Blanking Interval Code and MEXTRAM, with innovative numerics to provide unmatched speed, accuracy and convergence. In addition, Parallel SmartSpice significantly reduces simulation time on an Exemplar multiprocessor server by utilizing true SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) A multiprocessing architecture in which multiple CPUs, residing in one cabinet, share the same memory. SMP systems provide scalability. As business increases, additional CPUs can be added to absorb the increased transaction volume. multithreading. PARALLEL ATLAS Atlas is a modular and extensible solution for 1-D, 2-D and 3-D device simulation. It simulates silicon devices as well as other advanced-materials devices (GaAs, InP, SiGe). The main simulator in Atlas is supplemented with application-specific modules such as GIGA for non-isothermal calculation, ESD for electronic-discharge experiments, TFT for amorphous/polycrystalline materials, LUMINOUS for opto-electronic interactions and LASER for semiconductor laser devices. Now, Parallel Atlas has been tuned to run on HP 9000 Exemplar servers at the highest level of performance. HP's Exemplar family includes HP 9000 K-Class and V-Class servers, which scale to 16 CPUs and 16GB RAM. This scalability, combined with HP's industry-leading PA-8200 PA-RISC (Precision Architecture-RISC) A proprietary RISC-based CPU architecture from HP that was introduced in 1986. It is the foundation of HP's 3000 and 9000 computer families. See IA-64. (2) processor and 4MB of cache memory, makes HP Exemplar servers an ideal EDA platform. Both servers provide the performance, scalability, reliability and high availability IC designers need to complete electronic designs efficiently and to reduce time to market for new products. ABOUT SILVACO Silvaco International is the leading supplier of physically-based design tools for the semiconductor industry and the only remaining significant independent SPICE vendor. Semiconductor companies worldwide use Silvaco's tools in all phases of IC technology development ranging from simulation of semiconductor manufacturing processes and device performance, to generation of SPICE models, and simulation and optimization of circuit performance. Silvaco today operates ten worldwide sales and support offices covering all major semiconductor manufacturing regions throughout North America, Asia and Europe. Silvaco 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. . Tel: 408/567-1000, Fax: 408/496-6080. URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.silvaco.com. ABOUT HP HP is the official information-technology hardware and maintenance supplier to the 1998 World Cup soccer tournament. Selected for its technology and skills to support and manage mission-critical applications, HP will help create an information-management infrastructure for handling game-scoring; media centers; personnel accreditation; hotel information; and various ticketing, stadium, warehouse and back-office operations. Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. It is the second-largest computer supplier in the world, with computer-related revenue in excess of $35.4 billion in its 1997 fiscal year. HP has 125,300 employees and had revenue of $42.9 billion in its 1997 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. (1) Dr. Ivan Pesic received his doctorate degree in computer networks and packet switching technology. (2) PA-RISC stands for Precision Architecture-reduced-instruction-set computing. HP-UX Release 10.20 and later and HP-UX Release 11.00 and later (in both 32 and 64-bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are Open Group UNIX 95 branded products. Note to Editors: UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. CONTACT: Cunningham Communication, Inc. for HP Rona Brodrick, 408/447-1665 rbrodrick@ccipr.com or Silvaco International Andy Strachan, 408/654-4311 andys@silvaco.com |
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