Cadence Design Systems has announced that its implementation and signoff tools have achieved certification on the Intel 14nm process for customers of Intel Custom Foundry. Intel Custom Foundry utilised a PowerVR Series6 GPU from Imagination Technologies as part of the certification process.
The tool certification and enablement provides Intel Custom Foundry customers with a complete and integrated system-on-chip (SoC) design flow. Cadence tools in the flow include:
• Innovus Implementation System: This next-generation physical implementation solution enables SoC developers to deliver designs for Intel’s advanced second generation of tri-gate technology.
• Quantus QRC Extraction Solution: This tool 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 tool provides full-chip static timing analysis (STA) with gate-level delay calculation including signal integrity (SI) analysis, advanced on-chip variation analysis, advanced-node functionality required for double-patterning and waveform effects, and optimisation for timing and leakage power.
• Physical Verification System: This full-chip system provides multi-patterning decomposition (MPT), design rule checks (DRC), layout versus schematic (LVS), design for manufacturing (DFM) metal fill, electrical rule checks (ERC), and high-capacity chip-finishing that integrates with the Virtuoso custom IC platform and Innovus Implementation System to significantly reduce iterations and achieve faster physical signoff.
• Spectre Circuit Simulator, Spectre RF Simulation and Spectre Accelerated Parallel Simulator: These tools provide fast, accurate SPICE-level simulation for tough analog, radio frequency (RF) and mixed-signal circuits.
