TSMC Selects Legend's Model Diagnoser for Standard Cell Library Quality Assurance.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. -- Legend Design Technology, Inc. today announced that its Model Diagnoser has been selected by 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 for use in the quality assurance of the company's standard cell libraries. With the advantages of exhaustive coverage, full automation and fast runtime, Model Diagnoser enables engineers to ensure the model quality of standard cell libraries at any PVT (process, voltage and temperature) corner. Standard cells are the basic building blocks of System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. If the standard cell libraries are incorrectly characterized or inappropriately applied at new PVTs, the accuracy of the entire SoC designs could be at risk. Model Diagnoser has been designed to diagnose the .lib models of cell libraries, and to identify "functional failures" and "easy-to-break parts". Model Diagnoser can analyze inside-cell, measure the detailed simulation results, and report the problems quantitatively. Frequently, those problems are caused by incorrect characterization. "Legend's Model Diagnoser can help locate the functional issues in the .lib models of TSMC 90nm and 65nm standard cell libraries. We are satisfied with the tool results, and continue to work with Legend to ensure our library quality for advanced nanometer One billionth of a meter. Nanometers are used to measure the wavelengths of light. See angstrom and metric system. technologies," said Tom Quan, deputy director of design service marketing at TSMC. By using Legend's patented SpiceCut technology, Model Diagnoser can locate high-risk spots inside the cell. Based on cell functions and conditions, Model Diagnoser extracts the applicable state patterns exhaustively. All setup time, hold time and minimum pulse width pulse width Pulse duration Cardiac pacing The duration of a pacing pulse in msecs from the .lib model are validated against the simulation results. Not only the functional violations, but also signal integrity issues such as glitches and meta-stability can be precisely identified. In addition, Model Diagnoser can repair the problematic .lib model, by automatically adjusting the margins to ensure no functional violations and/or no signal integrity issues. "Quality of standard cell libraries is critical for fist-pass silicon success of SoC designs." said Dr. You-Pang Wei, 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 Legend Design Technology, Inc. "With the selection of Legend's Model Diagnoser, TSMC has access to a premier solution for ensuring the quality of standard cell libraries. We are pleased to work closely with TSMC in meeting their needs of high quality libraries for supporting customers' SoC designs." About Legend Legend Design Technology Inc. is a leading provider of circuit simulation and semiconductor IP library characterization software for SoC designs. With an emphasis on productivity and value, Legend's library characterization toolset, CharFlo-Memory! for memory IP and CharFlo-Cell! for standard cell 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 library, revolutionize rev·o·lu·tion·ize tr.v. rev·o·lu·tion·ized, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·ing, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·es 1. To bring about a radical change in: Television has revolutionized news coverage. 2. the time-consuming and error-prone characterization processes. Model Diagnoser is for quality assurance and defect repairing for cell library. MSIM MSIM Master of Science in Information Management MSIM Microsoft Instant Messenger MSIM Master of Science in International Management MSIM Member of the Singapore Institute of Management MSIM Medical Systems Infrastructure Modernization MSIM Multi Switch Interconnect Module is Legend's high-accuracy SPICE circuit simulator (1) Software that enables the execution of an application written for a different computer environment. Same as emulator. (2) Software that models the interactions of hypothetical or real-world objects or business processes. with fast speed and great convergence. Turbo-MSIM is Legend's full-chip Fast-Spice simulator ideal for timing and power simulation, and mixed-signal circuit verification. Both simulators are well designed for advanced nanometer technology and excellent price-performance. For more information, visit www.LegendDesign.com. |
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