Boston, MA 09/26/2014 (wallstreetpr) – Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) said that some of its digital and custom design tool have received TSMC certification for their 16-nm FinFET+ platforms.
16nm FinFET Certification
Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) yesterday announced that the company’s custom and digital tools form Galaxy™ Design Platform are ready to be used with TSMC 10nm FinFET, as well as 16nm FinFET+ procedures. The company reported that it has completed all the V0.9 certifications, and the V1.0 certifications are in process. According to a news release of the company, Synopsys expects the completion of the V1.0 certifications within a couple of months. Synopsys said that now since the tools have been enhanced to fulfill the requirements of the 10nm FinFET process, users can deploy them for their design starts.
10nm FinFET Agreement
With this, Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) also announced entering into a collaborative agreement with TSMC. The two companies have entered the N10 partnership, they announced. The collaboration has allowed customers to use Synopsys’ industry-leading tools to exploit the area benefits, performance and most importantly, the power of the 10nm and 16 nm process technologies. The collaboration is based on an extensive engineering partnership and hence, facilitates providing significant technologies, such as interoperable process design kits, extraction technology documents, physical verification runsets, and routing rules. The FinFET based designs can now be implemented using the silicon-tested Synopsys solution. The system-on-Chip design teams have initiated work on the FinFET designs.
Mutual Benefits
Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) and TSMC both seek to help mutual customers of the companies through this collaboration. The partnership enables customers to maximize the performance and power of TSMC’s processes with the help of Synopsys’ tools. In this context, TSCM’s senior director, Suk Lee said that the collaboration is based on significant design-enabling technologies, which has benefitted both the companies in a productive way. The joint venture helps the two to provide highly customized design solutions to their customers.
