Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has fulfilled its commitment to provide low risk, easy adoption of its 65nm technology by announcing that multiple Design Service Ecosystem partners have achieved DFM compliance for their 65nm tools.
"TSMC is the first foundry to proactively work with major EDA vendors to create and qualify interoperability between the foundry's DFM data sets for advanced technology and the EDA tools and models that designers use," said Ed Wan, senior director of design service marketing. "This breakthrough provides designers with the ability to help improve production ramps, initial yield, and ROI, without compromising on die size or performance."
Partners who have achieved DFM compliance status include Anchor Semiconductor, Cadence Design Systems, Clear Shape Technologies, Magma Design Automation, Mentor Graphics, Ponte Solutions, Predictions Software, and Synopsys, Inc.
Using TSMC's DFM Unified Format as the foundation for the tool compliance program, TSMC and its partners have run multiple compliance tests to validate interoperability between the format and Ecosystem partner tools. This ensures that the tools and models that designers use can fully access and utilize TSMC's process-specific, encrypted DFM Data Kit, the proprietary "heart" of TSMC's technology.
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