Cadence and NEC Electronics ASIC Partnership
As a world-leading semiconductor manufacturer, NEC Electronics has been providing
customers with quality ASIC solutions for more than 20 years. Recognizing customers
have a wide range of needs, NEC Electronics provides support for a complete range
of ASIC options from high-performance, highly integrated cell-based ASICs based on
leading-edge technologies to the simple and convenient ASICs based on gate array
and embedded array technology, as well as analog ASIC for realizing advanced functions
using analog circuits.
NEC Electronics' silicon-proven, integrated RTL-to-GDSII design environment
successfully blends technical innovation, real-world engineering experience, partnerships
with Cadence Design Systems and a highly sophisticated physical design flow. We
leverage extensive experience with a wide variety of designs, customer design styles,
and high-volume manufacturing. Based on this experience and considerations appropriate
to each technology node, we adjust our methodologies to account for silicon issues such
as wire delay, signal integrity, power consumption and design for manufacturability (DFM)
to ensure that we meet customer's design requirements.
Cadence maintains a close business and technology relationship with NEC Electronics that
combines NEC's ASIC methodology and technologies with Cadence EDA tools and solutions to
deliver comprehensive ASIC solutions to our mutual customers.
Learn more about our new CPF-adopted low-power consumption design flow
| NECEL Cell base IC Basic Design Flow |
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NEC Electronics ASIC Methodology Support Matrix for Cadence Technology
| NEC Electronics ASIC methodology task |
Cadence Qualified Tool |
| Simulation |
Cadence® Incisive® Enterprise Simulator |
| RTL Check and Synthesis |
Encounter® RTL Compiler |
| Formal Verification |
Encounter® Conformal® Equivalence Checker |
| Physical Prototyping |
SoC Encounter™ RTL-to-GDSII system |
| Placement |
SoC Encounter™ RTL-to-GDSII system |
| Clock Tree Synthesis |
SoC Encounter™ RTL-to-GDSII system |
| Routing |
SoC Encounter™ RTL-to-GDSII system |
| Timing Optimization |
SoC Encounter™ RTL-to-GDSII system |
| RC Extraction |
Cadence® QRC Extraction |
| Timing Analysis |
Cadence® Encounter® Timing System |
| Crosstalk Analysis |
Cadence® Encounter® Timing System |
| Delay Calculation |
Cadence® Encounter® Timing System |
| IR-Drop Analysis |
VoltageStorm® power and power rail verification |
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