Pyxis Technology Teams with PDF Solutions on Yield-Driven DFM Routing
Collaboration Designed to Shorten Time to Higher Yields
SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 25, 2007 -- Pyxis Technology, the design for
manufacturing (DFM) routing company, announced today that it is delivering
software products based on a multi-year license agreement with PDF Solutions.
PDF Solutions’ process-characterized yield data is utilized directly
within Pyxis’ NexusRoute DFM-aware yield-driven auto router. Pyxis and
PDF Solutions have been working together since early 2006 to leverage the
pDfxTM technology to address manufacturing complexities of routing in advanced
technology nodes. The incorporation of pDfxTM into NexusRoute is designed to
deliver faster design closure and yield ramp to clients and better predicted
yield for designers by bringing real world manufacturing data directly into
the integrated circuit (IC) implementation phase.
"Pyxis’ routing software architecture is robust enough to take full
advantage of our extensive yield modeling for random, systematic, and parametric
yield data," said Kimon Michaels, co-founder and vice president of design
for manufacturability at PDF Solutions. "Their ability to address all
three types of yield limiters allows designers to optimize routing for
manufacturability and yield. The objective is a broader process window for the
design, making it less susceptible to process variations, which is a key factor
for yield in technologies at 65nm and below."
"Our goal at Pyxis is to reduce design closure time by providing
outstanding IC implementation software that is tightly linked to
manufacturing," said Phil Bishop, president and CEO of Pyxis Technology.
"The incorporation of pDfxTM from PDF Solutions is designed to provide
design teams with a direct link to accurate manufacturing and yield data,
allowing us to bring key manufacturing data directly to designers to improve
their overall design closure time and design yield."
The NexusRoute implementation is comprehensive and covers analysis and
optimization of random, systematic, and parametric yield limiters. The
technology has been used successfully on several of Pyxis’
customers’ designs, showing predicted incremental yield improvements
of as much as 10% over previously taped-out designs.
About Pyxis
Pyxis Technology delivers software and services to address the problems
that chip designers and foundries face in the physical design, layout,
and routing of nanometer-scale integrated circuits (ICs) and systems on
a chip (SoCs). Pyxis NexusRoute is a next generation, yield-driven
auto-router, architected for process technologies of 65nm and below.
Based on open industry standard interfaces and easily integrated into
existing design flows, NexusRoute reduces design and manufacturing
closure by up to 4X and increases chip yield by as much as 10%. Pyxis
Professional Services, help customers maximize IC yield and
manufacturability by leveraging DFM and yield enhancement approaches
within their design environments.
Pyxis has offices in Austin, Texas. For more information, see www.pyxistech.com.
pDfx is a DFM environment available from PDF Solutions, Inc. pDfx is a registered trademark of PDF Solutions, Inc.
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