DAC Lunch & Learn: Partnering for DFM Compliant IP Seminar

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Overview

12 noon—1:30pm

Smart phones. Netbooks, GPS. Digital TVs. Computer graphics cards. These are some of the key applications driving design and tape-out at 65nm and below. These applications are highly cost-driven, and hitting a specific market window may dictate whether the product will be a boom or a bust. Designs must be optimized to have the best chance for highest yields from their foundries. When those designs rely heavily on external IP, customers expect and demand that the IP has been optimized with the latest design-for-manufacturing (DFM) technologies to minimize variability and ensure manufacturability.

This year at DAC, Mentor Graphics, Chartered and ARM are working together to provide a unique perspective on optimizing third-party IP DFM robustness. This partnership has resulted in successful IP DFM compliance since 65nm to the current 32/28nm processes. Topics covered during this presentation will include:

• Components of Chartered/Common Platform IP DFM solution – flows, tools, acceptance criteria.
• Benefits of IP DFM from foundry perspective.
• How DFM is used in the development of ARM IP, both the physical libraries and for their ARM processors.
• Overview of the Calibre DFM platform and how each of its capabilities are used in the Common Platform DFM flow.
• PLUS, you'll also have the opportunity to ask your own questions in an exclusive Q&A session.

Seating is limited so submit your interest quickly to reserve your spot.

What You Will Learn

• How to achieve robust SoC designs with optimized IP by implementing DFM into tools and flows