CADENCE AND CHARTERED PARTNERSHIP
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, one of the world's top three
silicon foundries, is forging a customized approach to outsourced
semiconductor manufacturing by building lasting and collaborative
design chain partnerships. As one of the early pioneers of the
foundry model, Chartered has been delivering reliable and
leading-edge manufacturing services to a broad spectrum of industries
since 1987. Chartered operates five fabrication facilities including
a state-of-the-art 300mm fab—all located in Singapore.
Under the Common Platform, Cadence with alliance partners Chartered,
IBM and Samsung have qualified 65nm design solutions for earlier
silicon validation and lower risk production of leading-edge
integrated circuits (IC) and system-on-chip (SoC) devices.
Chartered customers can download technology files for QRC, Assura
RCX; rule decks for Assura, Dracula and Diva DRC/LVS; and Spectre
models for various processes through the Chartered Online Access
System (COLAS). QRC technology files and Assura DRC/LVS/RCX rule
decks for Chartered 65 nm process are available upon request from
Chartered.
Cadence and Common Platform partners have developed a 65nm low-power
RTL-to-GDSII CPF-enabled Reference Flow. This Reference Flow is based
on the Cadence Encounter Platform and is targeted to the Common
Platform IBM-Chartered-Samsung 65nm low-power CMOS process. The flow
addresses critical low-power design challenges, from chip prototyping
through power, timing and area optimization and is targeted for
wireless, wireline and consumer applications. The 65nm CPF-enabled
reference flow kit can be accessed common_platform_65LP@cadence.com. This reference flow kit contains
a reference design, documentation and scripts to run the reference
flow. Additional information on the reference flow can be found in
the common platform datasheet.
Chartered and Cadence have jointly developed Process Design Kits
(PDKs) for several Chartered processes. PDKs provide the crucial link
between foundry process data and the tools used in a custom analog
and mixed-signal design methodology. The following PDKs are available
from Chartered Semiconductor.
CHRT35SG - Single Gate Mixed Signal
CHRT35DG - Dual Gate Mixed Signal & RF
CHRT25MS - Mixed Signal & RF
CHRT18MS - Mixed Signal & RF
CHRT18IB - Logic Process
CHRT13LG - Logic Process
CHRT13RF - Mixed Signal & RF
CHRT90LP/G - Logic Process
CHRT65LP/G - Logic Process
Chartered customers can contact their Chartered account manager to obtain a user code and password to download process design kits from the Cadence PDK website.
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