MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Dec. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --
Highlights:
- Collaboration includes multiple signoff domains and spans
library characterization to full-chip signoff for accelerated
design closure
- Signoff solution innovations address unique challenges from 5nm
to 3nm to ensure signoff accuracy with 20X faster runtime and half
the memory consumption
- Customer productivity enhanced by 5X reduction in ECO
iterations and better hardware efficiency
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that with its
industry-leading, broad portfolio of golden signoff products,
Synopsys has collaborated with Samsung Foundry to deliver a fully
qualified flow with significant gains in accuracy, turnaround time
and designer productivity. By targeting 5G, artificial intelligence
and high-performance computing SoCs, these gains enable customers
at Samsung 5-nanometer (nm) to 3nm process nodes to achieve optimal
power, performance, area (PPA) and accelerate time-to-results
(TTR).
"Samsung Foundry serves many leading-edge customers in the most
advanced application segments that demand the highest levels of
design performance, robustness, and power efficiency," said
Sangyun Kim, vice president of
Foundry Design Technology at Samsung Electronics. "Our
collaboration with Synopsys has been instrumental in delivering
state-of-the-art signoff flows to our customers for our advanced 5
to 3nm process nodes."
The Synopsys fully qualified signoff flow includes the following
solutions:
- PrimeTime®: Supports ultra-low voltage variation,
via variation and multi-input switching with 3% correlation to
SPICE, 50 percent reduction in overall memory footprint and a 20X
performance increase for path-based analysis
- StarRC™: Extraction with a 2X runtime improvement
and accuracy within 1 percent of golden reference
- StarRC Field Solver: Deployed as the golden reference for
advanced node enablement
- PrimeECO™: Enables 5X faster design closure,
eliminating costly iterations between implementation and
signoff
- PrimePower: Provides an 8X faster gate-level power analysis
using RTL simulation vectors
- SiliconSmart®: Delivers 10X overall performance
increase including enablement on Synopsys Cloud Service,
significantly reducing the turnaround time for library
characterization
"Collaborations with industry leaders in semiconductor design
and manufacturing is at the core of our continued innovations in
design signoff," said Jacob Avidan,
senior vice president of engineering in Synopsys' Design
Group. "We are fortunate to team up with Samsung Foundry to drive
these innovations across a wide range of signoff technologies
pushing performance limits and reducing margins required for design
with the highest degree of confidence on Samsung's latest
advanced process technologies. We look forward to continuing our
collaboration for the next wave of designs and application
segments."
The collaboration spans the broad portfolio of Fusion Design
Platform™ signoff solutions, including PrimeTime static
timing analysis, PrimeECO design closure, PrimePower power
analysis, StarRC extraction and SiliconSmart library
characterization.
For more information about Synopsys' fully qualified
signoff flow features optimized for Samsung Foundry 5/3nm process
technologies,
visit https://www.synopsys.com/implementation-and-signoff.html.
About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is the Silicon to
Software™ partner for innovative companies developing
the electronic products and software applications we rely on every
day. As the world's 15th largest software company, Synopsys has a
long history of being a global leader in electronic design
automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and is also growing its
leadership in software security and quality solutions. Whether
you're a system-on-chip (SoC) designer creating advanced
semiconductors, or a software developer writing applications that
require the highest security and quality, Synopsys has the
solutions needed to deliver innovative, high-quality, secure
products. Learn more at www.synopsys.com.
Editorial Contact:
Simone
Souza
Synopsys, Inc.
650-584-6454
simone@synopsys.com
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