MoSys deploys Altos' Liberate for high speed I/O characterization

CAMPBELL, USA: Altos Design Automation Inc. announced that MoSys Inc. has adopted Liberate, its ultra-fast cell characterization solution. MoSys is using Liberate to re-characterize foundry-based standard cell libraries and for characterization of its internally designed high speed interface (I/O) cells.

“We are using Liberate to fully re-characterize the TSMC 65 nm cell library and to create consistent library views for our internally designed IP,” stated Samir Mitra, Vice President of Corporate Development for MoSys. “We are pleased with the performance and ease-of-use we’ve experienced with Liberate, especially in automatically modeling our complex, high-speed I/Os.”

Jim McCanny, Altos CEO and founder, said: “Essential to an IP provider is the ability to create industrial strength library models efficiently as possible.

“Using Liberate, MoSys can utilize the same modeling approach as its foundry partner and enjoy the best characterization performance and accuracy in the industry. Our latest 3.0 product release further improved upon Liberate’s ability to automate complex I/O characterization and to create accurate IBIS models that can be used for off-chip signal integrity analysis by package and board simulators.”