Intrinsity deploys Altos’ Liberate™ to
create libraries for signal integrity analysis
Liberate used to characterize 65nm
libraries for use at 3Ghz and beyond
Intrinsity, which provides tools, technologies, and expertise
that enable customers to produce high performance, low-power and cost-effective
products, is using Liberate to characterize a 65nm
standard cell library that includes CCS (Compact Current Source) noise models.
Michael Becker, VP of Engineering said, "Our focus is on designing at and beyond 3 Ghz. At these high frequencies signal integrity (SI) is a
major concern. Consequently our
libraries need to support the latest current based noise models to ensure
accurate SI sign-off analysis and repair."
Becker
continued, "We selected Altos Liberate for library characterization
because of its accuracy, ease of use and impressive performance. We also obtained
excellent path correlation from static timing analysis when comparing Liberate’s results to using our existing library.”
"Current based noise models are much better
than the previous generation of signal integrity models because they enable more
accurate modeling of noise rejection, glitch propagation and driver weakening"
said Jim McCanny, Altos CEO, "Intrinsity was
able to leverage Liberate’s inside view technology that automatically determines the first and
last logic stages for each cell along with the appropriate internal probe
points required to accurately model noise immunity”.
About
Liberate
Liberate is an
ultra fast library creator that generates electrical models in Liberty® format.
Liberate supports all the latest models for timing, noise and power such as CCS
(Composite Current Source) and ECSM (Effective Current Source Models). Liberate
also supports low power design styles that include power gating cells, state
retention registers and level shifters.
About Intrinsity.
Intrinsity, Inc. is a design technology company which provides
the designs, tools, technologies, and expertise so that customers can
efficiently and predictably produce high performance, low-power and
cost-effective products. Intrinsity’s proprietary FastCore and Fast14 technologies yield not only circuit
speeds of up to and beyond 3 GHz, but also the means to trade-off speed, power
and area to achieve the optimal solution to customer design targets.
Fast14 technology includes a combination of a process specific library, a
specification language and a set of tools that help automate the design flow. Intrinsity’s corporate headquarters are located in
About Altos
Altos Design
Automation provides ultra-fast, fully-automated characterization technology for
the creation of library views for timing, signal integrity and power analysis
and optimization. Altos advanced modeling solutions are used by both
corner-based and statistical-based design implementation flows to reduce time
to market and improve yield.
Privately held, Altos was founded in 2005 in