"Yield sensitivity can make designs at 65 nanometers and below prohibitive. Designers need a way to both analyze as well as optimize full-chip integrated circuit designs. This alliance provides a solid foundation for a new paradigm in yield-driven design methodology for sub100 nanometer designs," said Nitin Deo, senior vice president of marketing for Ponte Solutions.
Ponte's technology identifies both random and systematic yield issues as hot spots for full-chip integrated circuit (IC) design layouts. The intensity of a hot spot varies depending on physical design pattern. The Pyxis router can view the yield hot spots and correct the layout, accounting for timing and yield.
"Yield and manufacturability issues now permeate all layers of sub-100 nanometer designs. A new DFM solution is required that analyzes and fixes full-chip IC designs at the interconnect level. Pyxis' architecture is uniquely suited to take advantage of the analysis that Ponte provides. All major foundries have certified Ponte's software models, which makes it very attractive for us to work with them on developing a true DFM solution," said Naeem Zafar, president and CEO of Pyxis Technology.
Pyxis will be demonstrating its technology at booth 2323 at the 43rd Design Automation Conference (DAC 2006) at San Francisco's Moscone Center from July 24 through 27, 2006. Ponte will be exhibiting at DAC in booth 2204. CEOs from both companies also will be participating in a panel discussion on return on investment from new DFM techniques on Thursday, July 27th from 4:30 to 6:00pm.
About Ponte Solutions
Ponte Solutions, Inc., the design-for-yield company, manufactures and delivers unique, full-chip, model-based software products for semiconductor yield analysis and prediction, enabling designers to perform design-stage yield optimization. Ponte's customers include leading semiconductor manufacturers, foundries and design houses worldwide. Founded in 2002, the company has received funding from US Venture Partners, Incubic LLC, Silicom Ventures LLC and private individuals. The company has offices in Mountain View, California; Grenoble, France; Tokyo, Japan; and Yerevan, Armenia. More information about the company can be found at www.pontesolutions.com.
About Pyxis
Pyxis Technology is creating software to address the problems that chip designers and foundries face in the physical design, layout, and routing of nanometer-scale integrated circuits (ICs) and systems on a chip (SoCs). The company is focused on DFM routing technology based on a new software architecture optimized for design for manufacturability, which reduces design closure cycle time while improving overall design yield. For more information, see www.pyxistech.com. Pyxis has offices in Santa Clara, California and Austin, Texas.
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