RedHawk included in TSMC Integrated Sign-off Flow for 65nm process technology

SAN JOSE, Calif. – June 16, 2009 – Apache Design Solutions, the technology leader in power and noise integrity for chip, package, and system convergence, today announced that the Company’s RedHawk has been certified to support TSMC’s iRCX 65nm and 40nm technologies. In addition, RedHawk is included in the TSMC Integrated Sign-off Flow, a pre-packaged and pre-qualified design flow for 65nm process technology.

RedHawk’s integrated parasitic extraction, library characterization, and dynamic simulation perform full-chip power, noise, and reliability analyses. The iRCX format unifies the delivery of process data and ensures its integrity across qualified resistance/capacitance (RC) extraction, power / electromigration (EM) analysis, and electromagnetic (EMI) tools. With the unified iRCX format, TSMC’s customers can reduce tool evaluation efforts and improve design accuracy for first time silicon success.

RedHawk was selected as the power integrity (IR-drop) and EM analysis solution for the Integrated Sign-off Flow, a fully-packaged turnkey design flow that tightly integrates pre-qualified technology files, library, IP, and EDA tools, along with production-proven automated script for quick setup and sign-off. This enables TSMC foundry customers to utilize RedHawk within its extensively tested and qualified flow.

“The iRCX Qualification Program enables designers to effectively select pre-qualified EDA tools that match their design needs and ease the adoption of TSMC advanced process technologies,” said Tom Quan, deputy director, Design Service Marketing at TSMC. “Our collaboration with EDA vendors such as Apache allows our mutual customers to reach faster time-to-market while reducing design risks.”

“Apache and TSMC have had a long standing collaboration to bring the best-in-class power and noise integrity solutions to the market, starting with Reference Flow 5.0,” said Dian Yang, senior vice president of Apache. “iRCX certification of RedHawk and its inclusion in Integrated Sign-off Flow further strengthens our cooperation and enables us to deliver a predictable and accurate sign-off solution for our customers.”

About RedHawk
RedHawk is a full-chip Vectorless Dynamic™ power sign-off solution for high-performance SoC designs, including those utilizing advanced low power design techniques. It delivers the industry’s first mesh pattern recognition technology (MPR) and hierarchical dynamic power engine to handle designs in the excess of 500 million gates with sign-off accuracy. RedHawk enables designers to identify dynamic “hot spots,” examine the impact on timing, accurately pinpoint the cause of dynamic voltage drop, and automatically repair the source of supply noise. It considers dynamic power issues such as simultaneous switching output (SSO) for core, memory, clock, and I/O, as well as the impact of on-chip inductance, decoupling capacitance, and package/ system parasitics.

About Apache Design Solutions
Apache delivers the industry’s leading global power and noise analyses platform solutions for Chip-Package-System convergence. Apache’s innovative platforms address the unique power and noise challenges associated with specific design domains such as SoC (digital), analog and custom IP, and System (IC package, SiP, PCB), while providing a co-analysis environment that integrates the SoC and System worlds. From early-stage to sign-off, Apache’s products are adopted by over 100 customers including 90% of the top IDM, fabless semiconductor, and foundries for cost reduction, risk mitigation, and time-to-market improvements. Apache is a global company with over 150 employees and R&D centers and direct sales / support offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.apache-da.com.

Apache Design Solutions, CPM, NSPICE, RedHawk, PakSI-E, PsiWinder, Sahara, Sentinel, Totem, and Vectorless Dynamic are trademarks of Apache Design Solutions, Inc.

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