14 DAY TRIAL // Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in semiconductor design software, showcased its latest integrated circuit (IC) - the PrimeYield LCC module - which is powered by Intel Dual-Core Xeon 5160 processors, during the Design Automation Conference (DAC) at Moscone Center, San Francisco.
"Synopsys has based PrimeYield LCC on proven technology used by the leading foundries and IDMs for thousands of production tape-outs," said Anantha Sethuraman, vice president of marketing, Design for Manufacturing at Synopsys. "Designers using PrimeYield LCC on Intel Xeon processors can quickly perform lithography simulation and easily make any necessary layout corrections through automated links to design implementation. Because of its strong performance results and ability to deliver huge time and cost savings, some PrimeYield customers are already qualifying the solution for 45-nanometer flows."
Part of the new Synopsys PrimeYield design-yield analysis tool range, the PrimeYield LCC identifies potential lithographical errors and process-variation effects for designers earlier in the design process and uses parallel processing to distribute the input job over several processors. Consequently, PrimeYield LCC is said to deliver runtimes in minutes and hours instead of days for advanced 65- and 45-nm ICs.
As zit is built on production-baseline technology and manufacturing models used by the leading plants and integrated device manufacturers (IDMs), PrimeYield provides designers improved control over the manufacturability of their advanced 65-nm and smaller designs.
Moreover, PrimeYield accurately predicts design-induced mechanisms that threaten yield and provides automated correction guidance to upstream design implementation tools.
"Design customers increasingly need higher computing performance to conduct complex design steps like design-yield analysis," said Martin Menard, general manager and director of IT Platform Capability at Intel Corporation. "Scalable, large compute environments based on Intel Dual-Core Xeon 5160 processor-based platforms offer higher performance and scalability required for design applications like Synopsys PrimeYield to deliver required throughput."