Sep 20 2010
CLK Design Automation Inc today announced breakthrough performance improvements in stage-based advanced on chip variation (AOCV) table generation with Amber Path FX.
Amber Path FX SBOCV generates a full set of AOCV tables for a complete 882 cell TSMC 40 nm library in under 16 hours. Creating the same tables using Monte Carlo SPICE or Fast SPICE would have taken months or even years.
“Amber Path FX is the only practical solution for creating AOCV tables for a full library," said Isadore Katz, President and CEO of CLK Design Automation. "With our table generation solution organizations can finally begin to adopt AOCV, save hundreds of SPICE licenses, and respond to library changes in a matter of hours."
Amber Path FX was developed together with TSMC as part of a collaborative relationship that has been ongoing since 2007. TSMC has validated Amber Path FX across hundreds of test cases and timing paths. Amber Path FX SBOCV table generation is the only qualified table generation solution in TSMC's Reference Flow 11 announced earlier this year.
The latest release of Amber Path FX SBOCV introduces a 100x speedup. Amber Path FX SBOCV uses core technology from CLK Design Automation's statistical variance analysis engine – the same engine used to do transistor level critical path analysis. Amber Path FX is multi-threaded. Performance scales with the number of available CPUs.
Source: http://www.clkda.com/