Electronics and information technology company Samsung Electronics and electronic design automation (EDA) and electronics company Mentor Graphics jointly have delivered a design-for-manufacturing (DFM) sign-off reference application for Samsung’s foundry customers based on the Mentor’s Calibre platform.
The DFM sign-off application is available for consumer and telecommunications designs targeting advanced process nodes.
The components of the Calibre DFM platform at Samsung include the Calibre LFD product for litho simulation and hot spot pattern identification; the Calibre nmDRC and Calibre PM products for pattern-based design rule and hot spot checking and fixing; and the Calibre YieldAnalyzer product, which is used in conjunction with the Samsung manufacturing analysis deck for DFM scoring and critical area analysis (CAA).
Samsung has already released the Calibre kits to their customers for 32 nm and 28 nm and has also completed evaluation for 20 nm.
Samsung Electronics Infrastructure Design Center vice-president Kee Sup Kim said the company has used Mentor’s 32/28 nm DFM application on several advanced SoCs to reduce late-stage problems that could lead to delayed product releases or slower than expected yield ramp-up.
"We are currently working with Mentor to expand the DFM solution to 20 nm processes as well," said Kee Sup Kim.
