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Cadence, Samsung Foundry join on nanoscale DFM chip solutions

By R&D Editors | February 8, 2012

Cadence
Design Systems, Inc., a global electronic design innovator based in San
Jose, Calif., this week announced that Samsung Electronics’ Foundry
business, Samsung Foundry, has collaborated with Cadence to develop a
world-class design-for-manufacturing (DFM) infrastructure to produce the
most advanced chips. Working closely together, Cadence and Samsung
Foundry have developed “in-design” and signoff DFM flows to tackle
physical signoff and electrical variability optimization for 32-, 28-
and 20-nm system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs. The new flows address both
random and systematic yield issues, providing customers with a proven
foundry option for advanced-node designs built on the Cadence Encounter
digital and Cadence Virtuoso custom/analog implementation solutions.

The
unique Cadence in-design approach to silicon realization moves
traditional DFM steps into the implementation stage of digital and
custom chip design. This approach is aimed at boosting productivity,
predictability and profitability while reducing risk. The DFM flows
developed at Samsung Foundry leverage multiple new technologies,
including Cadence Pattern Classification and Search, Cadence CMP
Predictor, Cadence Litho Physical Analyzer and Cadence Yield Analyzer
and Optimizer.

“As
we expand our customer base at advanced process nodes, customers
require various design flows,” said Kyu-Myung Choi, senior vice
president of Infrastructure Design Center, Samsung Electronics, “By
teaming with Cadence to build a strong foundry ecosystem for advanced
node designs, we’ve achieved numerous benefits we can pass along to our
customers such as reducing risk and speeding time to market. We’ve
enjoyed great success at 32- and 28-nm with Cadence, and we have now
extended our advanced DFM flow to 20-nm as well.”

Manufacturing
complexity is growing exponentially at advanced nodes, and it impacts
design cycle time and time to yield compared to previous nodes. With the
new infrastructure optimized for advanced nodes, Samsung Foundry is
able to use the hierarchical design approach and pattern matching to
perform effective and accurate systematic failure analysis. And the
Cadence production-proven in-design DFM prevention and optimization in
Cadence Encounter digital and Cadence Virtuoso custom/analog
implementation solutions enables first-time-correct silicon.

The
Cadence pattern classification technology allows Samsung Foundry to
classify the yield detractor patterns into easily usable pattern
libraries. The infrastructure enables Samsung Foundry’s customers to
leverage the in-design and signoff pattern matching with automated
fixing flows in Encounter and Virtuoso. Another new innovation from this
collaboration is the development of a chip-based CMP (multiprocessor)
analysis flow to enable early convergence of topography yield issues in
advanced digital and custom designs.

SOURCE

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