Block-level design and verification is a critical step in the construction of mixed-signal designs. At this point in the design flow, digital content, analog content, third-party IP from various sources, and mixed-signal content all need to be developed and verified with a tightly integrated set of tools.
For custom and mixed-signal blocks, IC Station provides a complete physical layout and chip assembly environment integrated on the same database. A full featured layout editor, Nanometer Device Generators, Interactive and Automatic Routers are all built into IC Station.
Inline integration with Calibre allows the designer to perform parastic extraction, physical verification and DFM-related operations for the block on-the-fly.
The Olympus-SoC solution delivers innovative technologies for 65 and 45 nm processes. It provides the next-generation place and route system that concurrently addresses variations in lithography, process corners, and design modes. Integral to Olympus-SoC is Mentor’s detailed routing architecture which embeds variation-aware timing, optimization and litho-modeling to address optical proximity correction (OPC) and resolution enhancement technology (RET) effects early in the design cycle ensuring faster timing closure for complex process rules. It is capable of simultaneously solving for dozens of different process corners and design modes, ensuring an optimized chip without unnecessary guard banding.
The Pinnacle suite provides the fastest and the best design for variability implementation solution for the biggest chips. Built on revolutionary platform architecture Pinnacle delivers the best performance Design for Variability (DFV) engine, handles extremely large designs, and plugs seamlessly into existing design flows. Rapid Physical Feasibility features help engineers in the early design phase to refine and finalize the floor plan and respond to complex design constraints.
The IC Station® Tool Suite provides the physical layout component of the Mentor Graphics full custom IC design flow. This suite includes application bundles for editing, schematic-driven layout, and top-level floor planning/routing.
This interface provide users with the capabililty to access data in industry standard formats (GDS, spice netlists) from the SVDB directory after a Calibre LVS-H run
