May 22, 2012 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that specialty foundry TowerJazz has selected the Calibre PERC product to perform circuit-reliability verification for its latest 0.13- and 0.18-micron products, including highly customized electrostatic discharge (ESD) and power-management circuit checks. The Calibre PERC solution provides theability to combine schematic (netlist) and physical layout criteria and measurements to perform advanced checks that were previously done manually because they were difficult or impossible to automate.

"The Calibre PERC adds a new dimension to rule checking, taking TowerJazz leadership in PDK development to the next level," said Ori Galzur, Vice President of the TowerJazz VLSI Design Centre. "With the huge flexibility the tool provides, we and our customers are now able to easily implement special ESD rules and complex power management design rules related to our technology."

TowerJazz is currently using Calibre PERC internally to create specialized circuit-reliability checks for its customers, which include but are not limited to electrostatic discharge (ESD), charge device modeling (CDM ), and power-management-propagation checks. TowerJazz is also planning to issue Calibre PERC rule decks to TowerJazz customers later this year.

TowerJazz and Mentor will present more on advanced reliability checking efforts at the June 2012 DAC Conference in San Francisco (Booths #1105 and #1530, respectively).