Over the lunch hour on Tuesday at DAC I met with Emre Tuncer, VP – Product Engineering & Applications and heard about extraction and timing analysis.
Notes
GoldX – parasitic extractor. Fast extractor, recently announced, all new technology, early customer adoption. One customer deploying it in 40nm, soon to be 28nm.
- Sold stand alone.
- Fast run times.
- Scalability, more cores better speed.
- Within 2% of a 3D field solvers on average. Mean is 1.5%, sigma is 1%.
- SPF timing differences are within 5ps.
- Cell-based extractor (not transistor level tool, stay tuned for device extraction)
- Extract each block, then stitch SPF files together at the top level
Focus –static timing analysis (Engine is statistical), reduce the turn around time, less pessimistic models (less fixing).
TSMC – Gold Time is endorsed for Reference Flow (Statistical Timer).
Prime Time, why switch ?
- Faster turn around time
- As good or better than SPICE accuracy
- Better reductions than Prime Time, reduce the amount of pessimism
Gold Time – out for awhile now, OCV is important and short turn around times
- Broadcomm
- Qualcomm
- Xilinx
- Not working as closely with Common Platform partners yet, mostly TSMC
- Quick run times using efficiency, MT
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