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TSMC Selected MunEDA WiCkeD for RF Reference Design Kit (RDK) 2.0
Hsinchu, Taiwan - Friday, June 11th, 2010
Circuit Sizing & Design Centering with MunEDA WiCkeD in TSMC RF Reference Design Kit 2.0 (RF RDK 2.0)
MunEDA´s tool suite WiCkeDTM has been validated for TSMC´s RF Reference Design Kit (RDK) 2.0 as part of the TSMC Open Innovation PlatformTM. WiCkeD covers a wide range of topic in interactive and automatic specification-driven custom circuit design, including design centering, circuit sizing for performance and yield, performance analysis, statistical circuit analysis.
"MunEDA complements our RF RDK 2.0" stated Tom Quan, Deputy Director of Design Methodology & Service Marketing at TSMC. "We are happy to collaborate with MunEDA, the experts on statistical circuit analysis and specification-driven circuit design automation. WiCkeD delivers a substantial benefit to the designers using TSMC technology and was validated for TSMC’s 65nm RF RDK 2.0."
"We are proud that TSMC has selected MunEDA WiCkeD to be integral part of the TSMC RF RDK 2.0", stated Michael Pronath, MunEDA Vice President Products & Solutions. "Our cooperation with TSMC and our mutual customers showed that specification driven design and statistical design are important for successful high-end circuit design in modern process technologies."
RF circuit design becomes challenging in sub-100nm technologies for many reasons like lower core voltages, less headroom, more on-chip variation and other effects that can affect performance, robustness and yield of critical circuit designs. Circuit designers use MunEDA´s tool suite WiCkeD to balance specs, area, power, reliability and robustness. WiCkeD can automate manual circuit design tasks in IP porting and cell migration to maximize designers´ efficiency.
Main benefits of using MunEDA WiCkeD with TSMC process technologies:
- Improve robustness of circuit designs against parametric process variation
- Achieve performance goals, power and area requirements
- Optimal use of the process technology´s capabilities
- Improve designer´s efficiency to reduce the design and sizing time
MunEDA WiCkeD is in industrial use by leading semiconductor companies worldwide in the areas of communication, computer, memories, automotive, and consumer electronics. Typical application fields of WiCkeD are demanding AMS/RF designs, high speed digital I/O, and memory.
Download Reference Poster Circuit Sizing & Design Centering with MunEDA WiCkeD in TSMC RF Reference Design Kit 2.0 (RF RDK 2.0)
Download PDF of this Press Release (EDACafe)
Link to this Press Release (EDACafe)
See also:
TSMC Extends Open Innovation PlatformTM
TSMC Unveils Two New Reference Flows
About MunEDA
Founded in 2001, MunEDA provides leading EDA technology for analysis and optimization of yield and performance of analog, mixed-signal and digital designs. MunEDA´s products and solutions enable customers to reduce the design times of their circuits and to maximize robustness and yield. MunEDA´s solutions are in industrial use by leading semiconductor companies in the areas of communication, computer, memories, automotive, and consumer electronics. WiCkeDTM is a comprehensive and powerful software tool suite for manual, semi- and full automatic analysis and yield optimization of analog, mixed signal and digital circuits. MunEDA has offices in Munich, Germany (Headquarter) and Sunnyvale, California, USA (MunEDA Inc.). MunEDA is represented by leading EDA distribution companies worldwide in USA, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Scandinavia, and others. Please refer to www.muneda.com/contact
For further information please contact:
MunEDA Marketing
Ben Grasenack
+49-89-93086-347
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