Date: 23/10/2009

TSMC opts for Mentor's Calibre physical verification platform for its Integrated Sign-off Flow

TSMC has selected the Calibre physical verification platform for its Integrated Sign-Off (ISO) Flow, which integrates tools, setup files, and flow management utilities with an automated design solution for implementing their chips in TSMC technologies.
According to ST Juang, senior director of Design Infrastructure Marketing at TSMC, "Integrated Sign-Off Flow leverages our close partnership with eco-system partners to provide customers with a proven path to targeted TSMC silicon process. We include key physical verification tools from the Calibre platform in the flow, which we use ourselves for advanced designs and are now making available for our customers."

TSMC and Mentor are providing design flows that integrate Mentor's Calibre nmDRC and Calibre nmLVS products for design rule and layout vs. schematic checking.

"As a close partner with TSMC, we see substantial benefits for our mutual customers by providing a complete design flow, which includes Mentor's sign-off technologies to help achieve faster turnaround, lower overall design cost, and improved manufacturability," said Joseph Sawicki, vice president and general manager for the Design-to-Silicon division at Mentor Graphics.