Cadence Collaborates With Samsung Foundry to Accelerate Hyperscale Computing SoC Design for Process Nodes Down to 4nm
April 08 2021 - 10:46AM
Business Wire
Highlights:
- Cadence 20.1 digital full flow tuned for Samsung Foundry
advanced-process nodes, enabling optimal PPA and first-pass silicon
success
- HPC reference flows based on iSpatial technology enable rapid
design implementation
- Digital flow’s ML and concurrent macro, standard cell and
placement capabilities deliver improved productivity and design
optimization
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced that
it has optimized the Cadence® digital 20.1 full flow for Samsung
Foundry’s advanced-process technologies down to 4nm. Through the
collaboration, designers can use the Cadence tools to achieve
optimal power, performance, and area (PPA) and deliver accurate,
first-pass silicon for hyperscale computing applications.
The Cadence digital 20.1 flow provides capabilities that are
well-suited for Samsung Foundry’s advanced-process technologies.
For example, the iSpatial technology allows a seamless transition
from the Genus™ Synthesis Solution to the Innovus™ Implementation
System using a common user interface and database. Machine learning
(ML) capabilities enable users to leverage their existing designs
to train the GigaOpt™ optimization technology to minimize design
margins versus traditional place-and-route flows.
Combined with a high-performance clock mesh architecture, the
digital GigaPlace XL technology offers concurrent macro and
standard cell placement that enables automated floorplanning,
delivering better designer productivity and significantly improved
wirelength and power. Unified implementation, timing and IR signoff
engines enhance signoff convergence and reduce design margins and
iterations. To speed the design process in Samsung Foundry’s
advanced-process technologies, example flows are now provided for
common high-performance computing (HPC) tasks such as concurrent
macro and standard cell placement, clock mesh, balanced H Tree
clock distribution, power delivery network and IR optimization.
The complete Cadence RTL-to-GDS flow optimized for Samsung
Foundry process technologies includes the Genus Synthesis Solution,
Cadence Modus DFT Software Solution, Innovus Implementation System,
Quantus™ Extraction Solution, Tempus™ Timing Signoff Solution,
Tempus ECO Option, Tempus Power Integrity Solution, Voltus™ IC
Power Integrity Solution, Conformal® Equivalence Checker, Conformal
Low Power, Litho Physical Analyzer and CMP Predictor.
“With the ongoing innovation in hyperscale computing and
autonomous driving, there is ever-increasing demand for HPC
capacity,” said Sangyun Kim, vice president of the Foundry Design
Technology Team, at Samsung Electronics. “By combining the latest
Samsung Foundry advanced-process nodes with the Cadence 20.1
digital full flow, our customers can achieve their design goals
quickly and efficiently.”
“The newly optimized Cadence digital flow makes it much simpler
for customers to achieve PPA targets using Samsung Foundry’s
advanced-process technologies,” said Michael Jackson, corporate
vice president, R&D in the Digital & Signoff Group at
Cadence. “By expanding upon our longstanding collaboration with
Samsung Foundry, designers can rapidly adopt Samsung Foundry’s
validated HPC methodologies to deliver exceptional silicon
performance on time.”
The Cadence 20.1 digital full flow supports the company’s
Intelligent System Design™ strategy, enabling customers to achieve
SoC design excellence. For more information on the digital design
solutions for advanced nodes, please visit
www.cadence.com/go/advnodes.
About Cadence
Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon
more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company
applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to
deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into
reality. Cadence customers are the world’s most innovative
companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips
to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications,
including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications,
automotive, mobile, aerospace, industrial and healthcare. For six
years in a row, Fortune magazine has named Cadence one of the 100
Best Companies to Work For. Learn more at cadence.com.
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