by Jayant D’Souza, product manager Tessent group at Mentor, a Siemens Business Charged with the task of improving yield, product engineers need to find the location of defects in manufactured ICs quickly and efficiently. Typically, they use failing test cycles to perform scan diagnosis, which is then analyzed to reveal the location and root cause […]
IC design software handles 22-nm ultra-low-power process technology
Mentor, a Siemens business, announced that multiple Mentor product lines are now certified for United Microelectronic Corporation’s (UMC’s) 22uLP (ultra Low Power) process technology, including Mentor’s Calibre platform, Analog FastSPICE platform, and Nitro-SoC digital design platform. UMC’s 22nm process features 10 percent area reduction, improved power-to-performance ratio and enhanced RF capabilities compared to the company’s […]
The ABCs of functional verification techniques
By Aijaz Fatima of Mentor, a Siemens business Functional verification is the process of demonstrating the functional correctness of a design with respect to the design specifications. Functional verification does not confirm the correctness of the design specification and assumes that the design specification is correct. It is one of the most challenging steps of […]
How to create and run reusable register-test models
by Matthew Ballance, Mentor, a Siemens Business Register tests are a very useful smoke test at all design levels — from IP to subsystem to SoC. While the built-in register-test sequences in the UVM library are useful at the IP level, capturing register-test intent in a PSS model makes register-test functionality portable from the IP […]
Retargeting existing tests in an integrated SoC verification flow
by Matthew Ballance, Mentor, a Siemens Business The raison d’etre for portable stimulus is reuse. The Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) promotes test intent reuse throughout the verification process and across the multiple engines on which those verification runs are performed. Test intent captured as portable stimulus models enables test reuse from the IP to […]
Finalists announced for inaugural Embedded Computing category in LEAP Awards
Three finalists were announced for the inaugural LEAP Awards’ Embedded Computing Category, comprising innovative products and technologies. The competition was scored by a panel of independent technical/engineering-oriented judges. Responsible for the Embedded Computing category were these four judges: Plamen Doynov Research Professor University of Missouri-Kansas City Plamen Doynov became a research professor in physics last […]
EDA, Spice software supports TSMC 7-nm FinFET Plus, 5-nm FinFET processes
Mentor, a Siemens business, today announced certification for TSMC’s 7nm FinFET Plus and the latest version of 5nm FinFET processes for its Mentor Calibre nmPlatform and Analog FastSPICE (AFS) Platforms. In addition, Mentor continues to expand features of both the Xpedition Package Designer and Xpedition Substrate Integrator products supporting TSMC’s advanced packaging offerings. Mentor Calibre nmPlatform for TSMC 5nm and 7nm FinFET Plus […]
Design tool generates photonic layouts for fabrication
Mentor, a Siemens business, today announced LightSuite Photonic Compiler – the industry’s first integrated photonic automated layout system. This new tool enables companies designing integrated photonic layouts to describe designs in the Python language, from which the tool then automatically generates designs ready for fabrication. The resulting design is “Correct by Calibre” – with the […]
HLS flow software now handles FPGA components
Achronix Semiconductor Corporation announced availability of an optimized High-Level Synthesis (HLS) flow from its partner, Mentor, a Siemens business, for its FPGA technology products. The integrated development environment enables designers to quickly go from C++ to FPGA using Mentor’s Catapult HLS and Achronix’s ACE design tools. Initially used for 5G wireless applications to reduce the overall development […]
Physical IC verification tool optimizes ASICs, SoCs
Mentor, a Siemens business, today announced Calibre® RealTime Digital – a new physical verification tool that works in concert with popular commercial place-and-route environments to ensure “Correct-by-Calibre” routing, and help design teams cut weeks off of IC signoff. Calibre RealTime Digital is the sister product to Mentor’s multi-award-winning Calibre RealTime Custom tool introduced in 2011 […]
