Featuring industry leading accuracy, throughput and ease of use, SiliconSmart® provides standard cell and I/O characterization and modeling for all popular design flows and supports advanced timing and power modeling. It is a complete library characterization and publishing system that produces production-ready models with minimal setup effort. For maximum performance, SiliconSmart HP (High Performance) embeds Magma’s high-speed SPICE simulator, FineSim™ SPICE, providing a 2x improvement in throughput. Both are backed by dependable worldwide customer support and provide the most reliable and shortest path to high-quality, production-ready nanometer models.

• Adaptive parallel job manager provides the fastest throughput and is fully scalable to take advantage of an unlimited number of CPUs, delivering unrivalled performance utilizing the highest level of parallelism (on an arc-by-arc basis).
• Intelligent characterization planning further optimizes runtime without sacrificing industry leading accuracy.
• Traditional non-linear delay and power models for 90-nm and higher designs.
• IBIS models for I/O cells are fully supported.
• Fast turnaround of library models for new process model updates, custom PVTs, or custom cells enabled through the re-characterization flow.
• Automated characterization setup for complex standard cells and I/Os eases adoption.
• Advanced constraint acquisition methodologies for maximum setup/hold requirement accuracy.
• Verilog and Vital/VHDL models consistent with SDF are generated from Liberty models to enable gate level simulations.
• Platform for SiliconSmart Sign-Off and DFM Extensions.
• Accurate models to eliminate silicon re-spins.
• Supports a wide variety of both industrystandard and customer-proprietary simulators.
• Models easily integrate with all popular design flows.
• Automatic stimulus creation, characterization and modeling setup provide ease of use and low cost of ownership.
   

Library developers, IP vendors and COT design teams rely on abstract models to accurately represent the electrical behavior of circuits implemented with advanced process technologies. To meet the needs of these customers, the SiliconSmart product suite characterizes standard cells, I/O cells and embedded memories to provide robust timing (including current source models), low-power, signal integrity and design for manufacturability (DFM) models in a variety of industry standard formats. Unlike other solutions, SiliconSmart combines accuracy, throughput, comprehensive standard-format support, ease of use and highly experienced worldwide support in one product. When used with popular construction and verification tools, these models offer silicon predictability and improved designer productivity. As a result, SiliconSmart models help customers shorten design cycles and improve chip performance.

SiliconSmart HP

To provide a 2x throughput improvement over the industry leading performance of the base SiliconSmart system, Magma has embedded its high-speed FineSim SPICE simulator in the SiliconSmart HP product. This eliminates the need to start and stop the simulator or reload process models and allows the use of the highly efficient characterization algorithms in FineSim SPICE. SiliconSmart HP includes all the features of the base product, including industry standard accuracy and remarkable ease of use for standard cell and I/O characterization, modeling for all popular design flows, and advanced timing and power modeling