Mentor
Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that Advanced Wireless
Semiconductor Company (AWSC) has selected the Calibre®
nmDRC™ and nmLVS™
products as their golden signoff physical verification solution for GaAs
ICs targeted for mobile and other wireless applications. As part of
their foundry offering, AWSC will provide the Calibre design rule decks
to its customers to help them ensure their designs are error-free and
meet all foundry requirements before submitting them to AWSC
manufacturing.
“We moved to Calibre for our new offerings to take advantage of its
highly efficient commands and unique capabilities not available in other
products, such as equation-based DRC, which makes it easier to implement
complex design rules for RF applications,” said Louis Lu, manager of
product development engineering at AWSC. “Calibre is widely used by our
fastest growing customers, and it works seamlessly in any of the design
flows our customers use, including the Agilent ADS custom RF design
platform. Also very important in our decision is the high level of
product support and application knowledge we receive from Mentor.”
“We’re pleased to see the adoption of Calibre for state-of-the-art RF
ICs such as those fabricated by AWSC,” said Shu-Wen Chang, director of
Calibre Foundry Programs at Mentor Graphics. “AWSC’s adoption of Calibre
for advanced GaAs ICs for RF applications is part of a growing worldwide
trend to use the most advanced Calibre technologies for larger feature
size applications. Our mutual customers are pushing much more complex
designs through processes initially developed for simpler geometric
data, particularly in mobile applications (e.g. smart phones, tablets,
etc.) where AMS/RF processes are increasingly important.”
One example of advanced features being used by AWS is the Calibre
nmDRC product’s equation-based DRC (eqDRC) facility, which fills the
void between traditional DRC and DFM process simulators. Some design
rules are simply too complex to capture with traditional DRC
measurements and rule tables. Equation-based DRC allows these rules to
be expressed as complex multi-variable equations, enabling precise and
accurate characterizations of complex 2D and 3D interactions that have a
direct impact on manufacturability. Equation-based DRC brings user
extensibility and fast runtimes to a whole host of new design and
process interactions. It also provides precise numerical feedback
allowing users to make reliable design tradeoffs, and to quickly
determine the best fix.
AWSC is a pure foundry service company located in Hsin-shi, Taiwan,
which specializes in fabbing Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits
(MMIC) fabricated with GaAs HBT, pHEMT/IPD and GaAs/Ge CPV processes for
smart phone and WiFi applications.
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation is a world leader in electronic hardware and
software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and
award-winning support for the world’s most successful electronic,
semiconductor and systems companies. Established in 1981, the company
reported revenues in the last fiscal year of nearly $1,090 million.
Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road,
Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.
(Mentor Graphics and Calibre are registered trademarks, and nmDRC and
nmLVS are trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company
or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their
respective owners.)
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