Electronic design automation provider Mentor Graphics Corp., Wilsonville OR, has entered into a broad-scoped collaboration with Swiss-based semiconductor supplier STMicroelectronics, to develop advanced design solutions at the 32-nm technology node and down to 20-nm node.
The three-year joint-development project, named DeCADE, seeks to build on advanced design solutions for SoC (System On Chip) development for digital and analog design, including system-level approaches, design methodologies, place and route strategies, optical correction for advanced manufacturing, modeling, electrical characterization and parasitic extraction. ST will significantly contribute to the development of these new SoC design tools, which will give ST a head start in its ability to deliver customer-focused semiconductor chips and platforms.
DeCADE will provide design solutions for core CMOS technologies as well as for value-added and application-specific derivative technologies that are developed from the core CMOS process. These projects can make a fundamental difference in chip capability and, performance, as well as in system-solution cost; among the value-added derivative technologies being considered by the DeCADE projects include RF and wireless technologies, as well as 3D Packaging and chip stacking technologies.