Magma's QuickCap Nx supports TSMC iRCX format for 40-nm processes
By siliconindia   |   Friday, 12 June 2009, 22:55 IST
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Magma's QuickCap Nx supports TSMC iRCX format for 40-nm processes
Bangalore: The Magma Design Automation has launched QuickCap NX, with the certification of supporting the parasitic extraction, and modeling the accuracy requirements of TSMC iRCX format for integrated circuits (ICs) targeting 65-nanometer (nm) and 40-nm processes. The designers can use the Quick NX to extract accurate parasitic-capacitance values based on the truest 3D representation of the physical circuit by the help of continuous data provided by the iRCX. With the combination of QuickCap NX and iRCX format, the designers will be able to accurately predict the accurate IC performance before manufacturing. "At the 40-nm and 65-nm nodes, the ability to generate accurate interconnected models at a high frequency can create a bottleneck in the design flow. By working together to qualify QuickCap NX for TSMC iRCX format, the TSMC and Magma ensure that designers have the most accurate models, breaking design flow bottlenecks and enabling first-pass design success," said Tom Quan, Deputy Director, Design Service Marketing at TSMC. The TSMC iRCX is an interconnected modeling data format, which ensures the accuracy of resistance/capacitance extractors, electromigration tools, power integrity analysis tools and electromagnetic simulators. iRCX is among the first EDA interface formats, co-developed between TSMC and its design tool partners as part of the TSMC Open Innovation Platform. "TSMC has been using QuickCap NX as the standard deviation comparison target for RC extraction tools on special pattern structures and real design samples, the TSMC qualification of QuickCap NX for the iRCX format provides our mutual customers with further confidence that Magma?s 3D field solver is the industry gold standard for parasitic extraction," said Premal Buch, General Manager, Magma Design Implementation Business Unit. Major semiconductor companies use QuickCap NX as the reference standard for parasitic extraction. It is a high accurate 3D extractor that incisively models advanced process effects such as optimal proximity correction (OPC), chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) and trapezoidal wires. QuickCap NX is proven to closely correlate to exact analytical solutions and silicon measurements, delivering capacitance values that are within one percent of silicon measurements. The QuickCap technology is incorporated into the Talus physical design software system, which provides support as in a high accurate timing and noise analysis during chip implementation. It is also used to compute the highly accurate capacitance rules used within Talus and the Quartz RC sign-off extraction tool.

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