Long-Ching Yeh, senior director of tool support and DFM at UMC, added, "UMC continues to be a foundry leader in terms of providing key design solutions to RF designers. These positive results indicate the readiness of these tools at UMC for RF designers."ĭr. "Planar, Stacked and Symmetric inductors were used in the study and accuracy was confirmed in both the pre- and post- de-embedding of probe structures. Chien, vice president of UMC's Central Research and Development division. "Experiments within our lab have demonstrated the accuracy of these tools across different design spaces and over several wafers," said S. Furthermore, the Spice model parameters are geometric to allow EDA Layout Parasitic Extraction (LPE) tools to extract model parameters from a GDS database for post-layout simulation. The seamless integration within the FDK allows for back annotation in order to drive UMC's Schematic Driven Layout. Designers may also request a specified "flatness" of inductance within a given frequency range for Ultra-Wideband (UWB) circuit designs. Integrand's Optimum Inductor Finder, a GUI-based synthesis tool, is now deployed within the FDK to allow UMC customers to enter their desired inductance and make tradeoff decisions between Q and area. In addition, Integrand's Optimum Inductor FinderTM combined with UMC's FDK and VIL represent a unique solution to the inductor synthesis problem, previously thought intractable because of the large design space of passives."
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The EMX-Continuum software was used to create true parameterized, or scalable, models for UMC's spiral inductors.
"Traditionally, scalable models have been provided by foundries only for active components. Sharad Kapur, president of Integrand Software, Inc.
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"We have been very happy to partner with and license our technology to UMC to provide greater capabilities to RFCMOS designers," said Dr. Accuracy has been verified to be within a few percent of measurements for inductance, as well as for more sensitive parameters like the quality factor (Q). Integrand's EMX and EMX-ContinuumTM tools, utilized in UMC's VIL, have been used for the synthesis of Spice models for a variety of spiral inductors, including Planar, Stacked and Symmetric inductors. A new graphical user interface (GUI) tied to UMC's Foundry Design Kit (FDK) gives designers the means to create accurate designs in a shorter amount of time.
Through the partnership, UMC's Virtual Inductor Library (VIL) is more robust and has new capabilities from Integrand tools. HSINCHU, Taiwan, and BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ, August 31, 2005-UMC (NYSE: UMC), a world-leading semiconductor foundry, and Integrand Software, Inc., an EDA software company, today announced that their collaboration has resulted in the development of leading edge, IC design resources for 0.13 micron RF designers. New GUI and enhanced virtual inductor library target smaller process geometry, offer greater speed and accuracy during model development
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