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SoftJin launches DFM-DFY toolkit
By siliconindia staff writer
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Thursday, 19 May 2005, 19:30 IST
BANGALORE: SoftJin, an EDA (Electronic Design Automation) software development services company, today announced its first building block product for DFM-DFY (Design For Manufacturing/Design For Yield) software tool development, called Nirmaan.
The Nirmaan software toolkit allows EDA companies and in-house CAD groups of semiconductor companies to develop optimized post-layout EDA tools, including DFM/DFY tools (software) faster. It includes an efficient geometric data organization and a host of fast geometrical operations commonly required for developing a whole range of post-layout EDA tools, especially DFM-DFY tools.
"Our goal with Nirmaan is to support an important and growing segment of the EDA market, the development of customized DFM-DFY tools with our building blocks and services," said Nachiket Urdhwareshe, SoftJin's CEO. "We believe that the availability of an EDA toolkit like Nirmaan reduces the overall cost of development and time to market for customized post-layout EDA tools. With it, tool developers can focus on the development of their core application rather than spending time and effort on essential but non-core aspects."
Currently, the only alternative for post-layout EDA tool developers is to develop their own geometric data-organization and geometrical operations as part of their EDA tool development. Nirmaan is the first offering in the market that provides a ready-made, performance tuned and customized tool-kit for these developers. Since no single geometric data organization can satisfy the requirements of all post-layout tools, Nirmaan has been designed so that multiple structural, spatial and basic geometric data organization options are available for EDA tool developers to choose from as per the specific requirements of the tool. All the interfaces to the data organizations remain the same, including the read/write interfaces with the industry standards, and the operations on the data.