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New autorouter and layout device generator - Full story |
27 Jul 2009 |
EDA Solutions announces the availability of version 14.10 of Tanner EDA's Tanner Tools Pro and HiPer Silicon design software, including a new interactive autorouter, SDL Router, and a layout device generator, DevGen.
Both these additions increase designers' productivity and speed up development of full custom analogue IC and MEMS design. The products will be demonstrated at the Design Automation Conference in San Francisco, July 27-30, 2009 at Tanner EDA’s Booth #3655.
SDL Router is an automatic routing engine integrated directly into Tanner EDA's Schematic Driven Layout (SDL) software. It speeds layout by automatically routing non-critical nets while allowing the designer to focus on routes that require expensive hand craftsmanship for performance or addressing analogue-sensitive nets or parts of nets. The router is interactively controlled by a layout engineer. It natively uses the routing geometry created by the user, and runs on all or a specified subset of nodes on each pass. Users can manually route part of a net and have the router automatically finish routing the net. Because of the router’s integration with Tanner EDA's SDL software, users can easily highlight and rip up nodes, manage the manual and automatic routing status, and implement Engineering Change Orders (ECOs).
DevGen, coupled with SDL, takes productivity to a new level. DevGen allows analogue layout designers to become more productive by automating much of the tedious task of laying out the devices. DevGen provides parameterised layout generators that are easily configured for any process to help ensure error-free layout. By using the DevGen wizard and answering a few questions about the layers involved and the Design Rule Checks (DRCs), designers can create parameterised cells of common devices without having to write code. DevGen includes layout generators for capacitors, resistors, inductors, MOSFETs, and diodes.
SDL Router and DevGen increase the speed and quality of custom layout and encourage good design practices by keeping close synchronisation between the schematic and the layout. SDL improves productivity by automating instancing of cells and parameterised devices and placement quality by displaying real-time node flylines. It also helps avoid routing congestion and tracks an engineer's progress to help manage workflow.
Version 14.10 of Tanner Tools Pro and HiPer Silicon also includes improved Verilog-A integration to reduce analogue simulation runtimes, when simulations include digital blocks. HiPer Verify runs Calibre and Dracula foundry files natively, without conversion or modification as well as Assura foundry files natively. Safe Operating Area (SOA) checks in T-Spice have been added, so models stay valid and circuits operate correctly. The software’s interactive DRC displays violations in real time during layout editing that help layout engineers create compact, error-free layouts the first time. Spacing distance is displayed in real time while the layout is edited and can prevent editing from getting closer than the minimum distance. |
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Design Automation & Test in Europe
9th -11th March 2010, Dresden, Germany |
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IMMS Analog 2010
22nd-24th March 2010, Erfurt, Germany |
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ASIC & MEMS From Idea to Product
20th - 21st April 2010, Fribourg, Switzerland
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GSA & IET International Semiconductor Forum
18th-19th May 2010, London, UK |
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13th-18th June 2010, Anaheim CA, USA |
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