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EDA, Spice software supports TSMC 7-nm FinFET Plus, 5-nm FinFET processes

October 4, 2018 By Aimee Kalnoskas Leave a Comment

EDA and Spice softwareMentor, 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
Mentor enhanced the Calibre nmDRC and Calibre nmLVS tools for TSMC’s 7nm FinFET Plus process and the latest version of 5nm FinFET process. Mentor continues to provide the functionality and performance that TSMC customers need to achieve their manufacturing requirements. The Calibre nmDRC and Calibre nmLVS tools are cloud-ready, and they are in deployment on thousands of CPU-count server solutions with customers today.

Mentor’s Caliber YieldEnhancer tool is certified for TSMC’s 5nm and 7nm FinFET Plus processes. Mentor and TSMC developed unique fill routines, which achieve manufacturing requirements by tightly controlling the location of the fill shapes. The combination of the Calibre YieldEnhancer tool’s capabilities and TSMC’s Calibre Fill Design Kit maximize the insertion rate.

The Calibre PERC™reliability platform is not only certified for TSMC’s 5nm and 7nm FinFET Plus processes, it has newly enhanced TSMC-developed PERC constraint checks to enable TSMC’s customers to improve the reliability of their designs.

Mentor’s enhanced tools for TSMC’s InFO_MS stacking technology
Mentor continues to enhance its tool set in support of TSMC’s InFO_MS (Integrated Fan-Out with Memory on Substrate) advanced stacked packaging offering. In addition to its ability to create and manage complex inter-component connectivity, and as key automation to Xpedition Package Designer for layout, Mentor’s Xpedition Substrate Integrator has been extended to enable automation for source net list generation for running Calibre 3DSTACK for connectivity checking. The Calibre 3DSTACK™ for LVS, Calibre nmDRC, Calibre xACT for interface coupling capacitance extraction, and Calibre PERC tools for point-to-point (P2P) checks are also part of TSMC’s InFO_MS reference flow. These enhancements provide comprehensive implementation and verification solutions to the TSMC InFO_MS design flow.

Mentor AFS Platform for TSMC 5nm FinFET and 7nm FinFET Plus
The AFS platform, including the AFS Mega circuit simulator, is certified for TSMC’s 7nm FinFET Plus process and the latest version of 5nm FinFET process. Analog, mixed-signal and radio frequency (RF) design teams at leading semiconductor companies worldwide benefit from using the AFS platform to verify their chips designed in the latest TSMC technologies.

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