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News Release from: Cadence Design Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 22 August 2007
Design company announces new acquisition
Cadence is now the only EDA company that can deliver manufacturing awareness and lithographic correctness for all layers in an IC.
Cadence Design Systems has acquired Clear Shape Technologies, a design for manufacturing (DFM) technology company specialising in design-side solutions to minimise yield loss for advanced semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs) Combined with Cadence's existing DFM methodologies and capabilities, the acquisition positions Cadence as the only EDA company that can deliver manufacturing awareness and lithographic correctness for all layers in an IC from transistor through interconnect, in designs ranging from SoCs to full-custom and all design domains including analogue, digital and mixed signal
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Nov 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We think there's a lot of momentum to be gained by integrating Clear Shape's predictive, manufacturing-OPC-tool independent, validated-in-silicon lithography capabilities into the Cadence DFM environment", said Atul Sharan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Clear Shape.
"We've always believed that the combination of rule-based and model-based technologies is the future of DFM, and Cadence shares this belief".
"This synergy allows us to provide the industry leading support for the widest range of advanced IC designs".
"This synergy is crucial for chip designs at 65nm and below, where lithographic effects are more numerous and complex".
"Designers who can tackle these effects early during the design phase, will ramp their chips to production faster than those who have to wait", said Richard Brashears, Corporate Vice President of manufacturing, modelling and implementation (MMI) at Cadence.
"This will allow us to make litho-awareness pervasive throughout our design flow".
Clear Shape's products are in the DFM qualification programs of the major semiconductor foundries.
Clear Shape's InShape technology is the first qualified TSMC Reference Flow 8.0 lithography process checker for all levels (transistor through interconnect) for devices at 65nm, 55nm and 45nm.
The acquisition was completed on 15th August.
Terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
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