March 8, 2012 -- The Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) today announced an ultra-high-density (UHD) library solution for its 0.11-µm Cu-BEoL (Copper Back End-of-Line) manufacturing platform that can reduce chip size by an average of 31%.
SMIC's comprehensive silicon-proven UHD IP solution incorporates SMIC's in-house UHD IP library, based on smaller bit cells, and Mentor Graphics Corp.'s cool-memory IP library with MemQuest memory compiler, specifically designed for compatibility with SMIC's UHD solution. SMIC's in-house UHD library consists of a 6-track UHD standard cell library, UHD memory compiler, and UHD standard I/O library. Mentor's UHD cool-memory IP library comprises coolSRAM-6T, coolREG-6T, coolREG-8T (Dual Port), coolREG-8T (Two Port), and coolROM. This unified library solution can generate different configurations to optimize power, speed, and density, and is available to SMIC customers free-of-charge.
SMIC's 0.11-µm UHD IP solution enables a 31% chip size reduction for a typical SOC design, when compared to a design that uses a traditional IP library. The silicon-proven ultra-high-density solution can be used in a wide range of applications, including mobile storage devices, Flash memory controllers, mobile multimedia players, digital televisions, and set-top boxes.
"Mentor Graphics is pleased to be able to offer its systemic, low-power and high density memory compiler technology to SMIC 0.11-µm users, to further optimize their design and embedded memory usage for additional density and cost gains," said Farzad Zarrinfar, Managing Director of the Novelics business unit at Mentor Graphics.
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