Toshiba selects MunEDA WiCkeD tool suite to enhance circuit analysis, performance and yield optimization

MUNICH, GERMANY: MunEDA announced that Toshiba Corp. selected the MunEDA WiCkeD tool suite for an integral part of its custom IC design flow.

WiCkeD is a circuit analysis and sizing environment, and includes tools for schematic porting, nominal circuit analysis and optimization, variation-aware design analysis, parametric yield optimization, and circuit model generation. With WiCkeD, circuit designers can achieve speed-ups in circuit tuning and quality improvements that lead to fewer silicon iterations and improved final product yield.

“After intensive evaluations, we selected the WiCkeD tool suite to enhance our productivity for analog-mixed-signal design products,“ said Yukihiro Urakawa, senior manager, Logic LSI Design Department, Logic LSI Division of Semiconductor Company, Toshiba. “Using WiCkeD on different projects, we achieved speed-ups in our circuit analysis, porting and sizing process, reducing the sizing time and effort to deliver quality products for 40nm and below in time.”

Andreas Ripp, VP of Sales & Marketing at MunEDA, said: “We are very proud that Toshiba, one of the largest semiconductor companies worldwide, has chosen to license MunEDA’s WiCkeD tools. Our collaboration will help MunEDA to further adapt and improve our technology to meet the demanding challenges of leading-edge fabrication processes, such as those used by Toshiba in its projects and products.”