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Design and Development Software
News Release from: Stone Pillar Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 October 2004
Micrel opts for intelligent design rules
Micrel has adopted the DesignRuleBuilder component of the Silicon Insight toolkit for semiconductor technology development.
Micrel has adopted the DesignRuleBuilder component of the Silicon Insight toolkit for semiconductor technology development Silicon Insight DesignRuleBuilder automates generation of intelligent design rules to speed runset creation, reduces the learning curve for supported DRC/LVS tools, and provides support for multiple targeted tools from a single rule set
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Technology development for advanced power semiconductor devices requires extremely complex design rules that must be flexible enough to accommodate rule variations based on device geometries, voltages and applications.
The large engineering investment for manually creating such rule sets makes it impractical to support multiple DRC/LVS (design-rule-checker/layout-versus-schematic) tools such as Dracula and IC Editors.
By providing a convenient GUI-based interface for rule creation, DesignRuleBuilder enables engineers to speed up runset creation and focus on the creation of high quality rules, rather than learning details of command language specific to individual DRC/LVS tools.
"We performed an exhaustive evaluation of Stone Pillar's DesignRuleBuilder on one of our most complicated technologies", said Dr Marek Jaczynski, Director of CAD Services for Micrel.
"Based upon the success of this project, we are looking forward to significant savings in runset development time and flexibility".
"DesignRuleBuilder makes it possible for engineers to rapidly create high quality runsets for multiple target tools".
"We are pleased to welcome Micrel as a new customer", said Tim Crandle, President of Stone Pillar.
"Micrel's thorough analysis of Stone Pillar capabilities, and their conclusions regarding significant engineering cost savings, are another confirmation of the benefits provided by Silicon Insight".
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