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News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK | Subject: UMC IC design kits
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 February 2001
Mentor Graphics and UMC deliver IC
design kits
Mentor Graphics and UMC have joined to deliver a complete turnkey design flow, including the availability of IC design kits, for UMC's RF and analogue/mixed-signal process technologies.
Mentor Graphics and UMC have joined to deliver a complete turnkey design flow, including the availability of IC design kits, for UMC's RF and analogue/mixed-signal process technologies This innovative flow gives customers a total design solution: complete support from specification all the way through tape-out
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The agreement covers UMC's 0.25, 0.18 and 0.13-micron RF CMOS technologies, with design kits for 0.25-micron available immediately.
These IC design kits, jointly developed for the Mentor Graphics IC Station schematic-driven custom design environment, deliver optimised and characterised device components ready for RF and mixed-signal SoC designs.
This enables designers to immediately begin creating, simulating and verifying designs on UMC's cutting-edge technologies.
The design kits include UMC-supported EldoT simulation models, Calibre DRCT and LVST technology files, schematic symbols, process definition files, and all other configuration files needed to construct a complete design environment, giving customers a complete, full-featured solution for Mentor Graphics RF and AMS IC design tools.
"Mentor understands the time-to-market pressure companies face to stay competitive and realizes this leaves little time to set up IC design environments", said Jue-Hsien Chern, vice president and general manager for the Deep Submicron (DSM) division of Mentor Graphics.
"IC design kits are a fundamental part of the Mentor AMS design strategy to provide a complete and fully integrated design tool flow." Fu Tai Liou, CTO of UMC said "UMC is continuing its efforts to meet the requirements of RF and mixed-signal SoC designers by providing cutting-edge IC design kits that are proven on our deep submicron process technologies.
We are pleased to be working with Mentor Graphics on this latest development, providing design kits with all components necessary for constructing complete RF and mixed-signal SoC design environments.
This will further facilitate RF and analogue/mixed-signal designers' ability to devise total, high-performance SOC solutions while still bringing products to market quickly".
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