ATI adds parasitic extraction tool

ATI Technologies has deployed Synopsys' Star-RCXT extraction tool for its digital design flows.

ATI Technologies has deployed Synopsys' Star-RCXT extraction tool for its digital design flows.

Star-RCXT delivers silicon-accurate parasitic extraction for advanced process nodes.

"Our design methodology requires high-performance, high-capacity, silicon-accurate parasitic extraction", said Adrian Hartog, Senior Vice President and CTO of ATI Technologies.

"Star-RCXT handles our biggest, most advanced designs and is supported within all major foundries".

Star-RCXT is the market-leading parasitic extraction solution in Synopsys' Galaxy design platform, and the only extraction tool to cover cell-based, custom digital, and analogue/mixed-signal designs.

Star-RCXT supports 90 and 65nm process capabilities including in-die process variation solutions such as selective process biasing (spacing- and width-dependent metal bias), local density effects, length of diffusion density and width-dependent thickness variation, width-dependent temperature variation, and metal fill.

In modelling such advanced silicon process features, Star-RCXT extracts silicon-accurate resistance capacitance (RC) parasitics for use with PrimeTime SI to ensure rapid timing and signal integrity signoff.

"Synopsys has a track record of being the first to deliver production-proven extraction and timing analysis capabilities for each new technology node with products such as Star-RCXT and PrimeTime", said Antun Domic, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Synopsys' Implementation Group.

"We look forward to working closely with ATI to deploy the benefits of Star-RCXT in their design projects".

Within Synopsys' Galaxy design platform, Star-RCXT provides the parasitic extraction backbone used for implementation and signoff of full-chip, cell-based and transistor-level applications.

Star-RCXT has been ranked as the number one parasitic extraction tool for the past seven years by Dataquest.

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