Cadence Digital and Custom/Analog Tools Achieve TSMC Certification for 10nm FinFET Early Design Starts
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Cadence Digital and Custom/Analog Tools Achieve TSMC Certification for 10nm FinFET Early Design Starts

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 6, 2015 — (PRNewswire) — Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that its digital and custom/analog tools have achieved certification from TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) for its most current version of 10-nanometer (nm) FinFET Design Rule Manual (DRM) and SPICE models.

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The Cadence® custom/analog and digital implementation and signoff tools have been certified by TSMC on high-performance reference designs in order to provide customers with the fastest path to design closure on the 10nm FinFET process and include:

Furthermore, TSMC's 10nm libraries are created using the Cadence Virtuoso Liberate™ Characterization Solution and Spectre Circuit Simulator.

"We collaborated very closely with Cadence on the certification process so our mutual customers can enjoy the performance and power improvements available with advanced FinFET process technologies," said Suk Lee, TSMC senior director, Design Infrastructure Marketing Division. "The certification of Cadence custom/analog and digital implementation and signoff tools ensures design solution readiness for customers to achieve reduced iterations and improved predictability with 10nm FinFET designs."

"Customers can begin leveraging 10nm FinFET solutions to overcome design complexity and get to market faster, and we are already seeing success with early customer design starts," said Dr. Chi-Ping Hsu, senior vice president and chief strategy officer for EDA at Cadence. "TSMC and Cadence have had a long history of collaboration that has led to continued advancements in silicon technology, and we plan to work together with our customers to drive innovations based on the latest process technologies."

For more information on the Cadence tools that have achieved TSMC certification for the 10nm FinFET process, please visit http://www.cadence.com/news/tsmc10nm.

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