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SiliconSmart
Comprehensive Cell, I/O and Memory Characterization
The SiliconSmart® solution is part of the Synopsys Custom Design Platform and generates Liberty libraries for use in digital design and implementation flows. The SiliconSmart solution includes a comprehensive array of library characterization and QA capabilities that are tuned to produce PrimeTime signoff-quality libraries with maximum throughput on available compute resources. SiliconSmart innovative technologies utilize embedded gold-reference SPICE engines to provide a characterization speed-up of advanced Liberty models used by PrimeTime static timing analysis (STA) to accurately account for effects seen in ultra-low-voltage FinFET processes that impact timing. This includes PrimeTime parametric on-chip variation (POCV), advanced waveform propagation (AWP), and electromigration (EM) analysis.
Platform-level integration of SiliconSmart with HSPICE and PrimeTime ensures signoff-quality libraries
PrimeTime Signoff-quality Libraries
Advanced process node standard cell libraries require accurate timing and noise models to ensure confident static timing analysis signoff — especially for mobile IC and IoT applications operating at ultra-low voltages. To meet the accuracy needs for advanced node characterization, SiliconSmart model generation has been tightly calibrated with PrimeTime and HSPICE® models to provide the best correlation and accuracy results.
Key Features and Benefits
- Tuned to produce PrimeTime signoff-quality libraries
- Innovative technologies provide high characterization throughput
- Simple multi-core licensing enables easy adaptation to constantly changing characterization workload requirements
- Embedded gold-reference SPICE engines for best accuracy with fastest throughput