SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Cadence Design
Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that its full-flow
digital and signoff tools and its custom/analog tools have been
certified/enabled for the Intel® 22FFL (FinFET
Low-Power) process, which provides up to 100X lower leakage and a
2.5X active power reduction compared with its previous 22GP
(general purpose) offering. Intel Custom Foundry utilized a PowerVR
GT7200 graphics processing unit (GPU) from Imagination Technologies
as part of the certification process.
The Cadence® flow, available to Intel Custom Foundry
customers now, provides designers with optimal power, performance
and area (PPA) for the creation of advanced-node mobile and
embedded devices. To learn more about the Cadence full-flow digital
and signoff solutions in the flow, visit
www.cadence.com/go/intel22ffldands. For information about the
Cadence custom/analog solutions in the flow, visit
www.cadence.com/go/intel22fflcanda.
The tool certification and enablement provide Intel Custom
Foundry customers with a complete and integrated system-on-chip
(SoC) design flow. The following Cadence tools are included in the
flow:
- 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 PPA targets while
accelerating time to market.
- Genus™ Synthesis Solution: This RTL synthesis
and physical synthesis engine mitigates productivity challenges
faced by RTL designers, delivering up to 5X faster synthesis
turnaround times and up to 20 percent datapath area reduction,
while scaling linearly beyond 10M instances.
- 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 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 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.
- Physical Verification System: This system includes
advanced technologies and rule decks to support design rule checks
(DRCs), layout versus schematic (LVS), advanced metal fill,
yield-scoring, voltage-dependent checks and in-design signoff.
- Virtuoso® Analog Design Environment
(ADE) Product Suite: The suite enables engineers to fully
explore, analyze and verify designs, ensuring that design quality
is fully optimized within compressed design cycles.
- Virtuoso Layout Suite: The suite supports custom/analog,
digital, and mixed-signal designs at the device, cell, block and
chip levels, offering accelerated performance and
productivity.
- 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.
Intel's new 22FFL process delivers transistor drive currents on
par with Intel's 14nm technology. It has single patterned
interconnects and simplified design rules for ease of use. For more
information, please contact Intel Custom Foundry.
"Since 2011, Intel has delivered over 7 million FinFET wafers,
and the new 22FFL process leverages all of that manufacturing
experience to create a differentiating design platform for next
generation IoT and entry mobile products," said Dr. Changhong Dai, vice president, Technology and
Manufacturing Group, and director, Technology Optimization
Solutions at Intel Custom Foundry. "Intel Custom Foundry has worked
closely with Cadence to deliver a complete design ecosystem for our
customers who are creating innovative FinFET designs. The certified
Cadence digital and signoff tools and custom/analog tools combined
with the comprehensive Intel Custom Foundry 22FFL platform offer
our mutual customers a complete and integrated flow to help them
achieve optimal PPA on Intel's 22FFL process technology."
Mark Dickinson, executive vice
president, PowerVR, Imagination Technologies, said, "Our PowerVR XT
family of GPUs is designed to enable advanced graphics and
efficient GPU compute performance for a wide range of mobile and
embedded devices. The collaboration with Intel Custom Foundry and
Cadence has enabled us to ensure the Cadence design flow provides
great efficiencies on the new Intel Custom Foundry 22FFL
process."
"Our collaboration on the certification process provides
customers with added confidence that they can overcome design
complexities using the Cadence flow on Intel Custom Foundry's 22FFL
design platform," said KT Moore, vice president, product management
in the Digital & Signoff Group at Cadence. "Intel Custom
Foundry customers can now create differentiated SoCs on the new
Intel 22FFL process using trusted, certified Cadence tools that can
enable designers to deliver products to market faster."
About Cadence
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semiconductor companies to create the innovative end products that
are transforming the way people live, work and play. Cadence
software, hardware and semiconductor IP are used by customers to
deliver products to market faster. The company's System Design
Enablement strategy helps customers develop differentiated
products—from chips to boards to systems—in mobile, consumer, cloud
datacenter, automotive, aerospace, IoT, industrial and other market
segments. Cadence is listed as one of Fortune Magazine's 100 Best
Companies to Work For. Learn more at cadence.com.
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