Lorentz Solution,
Inc., ounded in 2002 to develop and market EM design and verification tools
for high-frequency IC design, today announced that the company's flagship product
PeakView has been certified to support TSMC's iRCX 65nm, and 40nm technologies.
PeakView is an integrated EM-based design and verification environment within
Cadence Virtuoso™ platform that includes model synthesis/automatic layout
generation, full-wave EM simulation and model generation based on physical information
extracted from process design kit (PDK). The iRCX format provides a convenient
approach to deliver technology process data and ensure its metal topologies
and electrical characteristics across each process layer have qualified resistance/capacitance/inductance
for detailed EM analyses and model generation based on actual physical structures.
With the unified iRCX format, TSMC's customers can reduce tool evaluation
time.
PeakView today is used by high speed IC teams to deploy aggressive design practices
in meeting design closure without the constraint of limited scalable library
offerings found in newly introduced PDKs. This enables TSMC's customers
to have full control on expanding their existing PDK library offerings as well
as creating complex devices like balun/transformers or transmission lines with
EM-based accuracy using any TSMC's advanced processes.
“The iRCX Qualification Program enables designers to effectively select
pre-qualified EM tools with minimal effort in setting up the technology file,”
said Tom Quan, deputy director, Design Service Marketing at TSMC. “Our
collaboration with Lorentz Solution allows our mutual customers to quickly generate
manufacturing-compliant passive structures using our advanced processes to achieve
first-time silicon success.”
“PeakView was developed for RF and high-speed analog designers to easily
integrate EM design practices into their IC design flow including passive device
layout generation, synthesis and optimization. PeakView further expanded to
help analyze high-speed related impairments with an 'on-the-fly' approach on
sensitive nets as well as package related issues,” said Jinsong Zhao,
CEO at Lorentz Solution. “TSMC's programs like iRCX Qualification
and EM Qualification help realize our company's founding vision to provide
a complete, user-friendly integrated EM design and verification flow to better
address the RF and high-speed analog requirements using TSMC advanced processes.”