SAN JOSE, Calif., July 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Cadence Design
Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that its
implementation and signoff tools have achieved certification on the
Intel® third-generation 10nm tri-gate process for customers of
Intel Custom Foundry. Intel Custom Foundry utilized a PowerVR
GT7200 graphics processing unit (GPU) from Imagination Technologies
as part of the certification process.
The tool certification and enablement provide Intel Custom
Foundry customers with a complete and integrated system-on-chip
(SoC) design flow. Cadence® tools in the flow include:
- Innovus™ Implementation System: This massively parallel
physical implementation system utilizes GigaPlace™ placement
technology, GigaOpt™ optimization technology and integrated
color-/pin-access-/variability–aware routing and timing closure to
deliver high-quality designs with competitive power, performance
and area (PPA) targets while accelerating time to market.
- Quantus™ QRC Extraction Solution: This solution uses a
single Intel Custom Foundry-certified techfile and delivers a
faster, scalable solution by supporting both cell-level and
transistor-level extractions during design implementation and
signoff with best-in-class accuracy versus foundry golden.
- Tempus™ Timing Signoff Solution: This massively
parallelized timing signoff solution provides full-chip static
timing analysis (STA) with gate-level delay calculation including
signal integrity (SI) analysis, advanced on-chip variation
analysis, advanced-node functionality required for
double-patterning and waveform effects, and optimization for timing
and leakage power.
- Voltus™ IC Power Integrity Solution: This cell-level
power integrity solution supports comprehensive electromigration
and IR-drop (EM/IR) design rules and requirements while providing
full-chip system-on-chip (SoC) power signoff accuracy.
- Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution: This
transistor-level power integrity solution supports comprehensive
EM/IR design rules and requirements while providing SPICE-level
power signoff accuracy for analog, memory and custom digital IP
blocks.
- Spectre® Classic Simulator, Spectre Accelerated
Parallel Simulator (APS) and Spectre RF Simulation: These
products deliver fast and accurate circuit simulation of complex
analog, radio frequency (RF) and mixed-signal circuits with full
support for advanced-node device models and parasitics.
For more information on the Cadence tools that are certified,
please visit cadence.com/go/icf10nm, and for more information on
Intel Custom Foundry, please visit intel.com/foundry.
"Intel Custom Foundry has worked closely with Cadence to deliver
an optimized design ecosystem for our customers who are creating
innovative, advanced-node designs," said Dr. Changhong Dai, vice president, Technology and
Manufacturing Group, and director, Technology Optimization
Solutions at Intel. "The certified Cadence digital implementation,
signoff and simulation tools offer our mutual customers a complete
and integrated flow and help them achieve superior PPA on Intel's
third-generation tri-gate 10nm process technology."
"Our PowerVR Series7XT GPUs are designed to provide optimal
performance and a seamless user experience for next-generation user
interfaces, 3D gaming and GPU compute," said Graham Deacon, senior director of PowerVR
Business Operations, Imagination. "Imagination worked closely with
Cadence and Intel Custom Foundry to use our PowerVR GT7200 GPU for
this tool certification. This effort is part of ensuring that
design flows deliver excellent PPA for our GPUs on Intel's 10nm
process."
"Our collaboration with Intel Custom Foundry on the
certification process provides customers with added confidence that
they can overcome design complexity and get to market faster using
the Cadence flow on Intel Custom Foundry's 10nm design platform,"
said Dr. Anirudh Devgan, senior vice
president and general manager of the Digital & Signoff Group
and the System & Verification Group at Cadence. "Intel Custom
Foundry's growing customer base can now create differentiated SoCs
on the Intel 10nm process using the full system-level-to-signoff
Cadence tool flow."
About Cadence
Cadence enables global electronic design innovation and plays an
essential role in the creation of today's integrated circuits and
electronics. Customers use Cadence software, hardware, IP and
services to design and verify advanced semiconductors, consumer
electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and
computer systems. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design
centers and research facilities around the world to serve the
global electronics industry. More information about the company,
its products and its services is available at www.cadence.com.
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