SANTA CLARA, USA: Ciranova Inc. announced a significant milestone in the proliferation of PyCells, the company’s next-generation architecture for parameterized cells, basic building blocks used analog/mixed-signal IC design.
As of June 30, 2009, over 1,000 unique individuals have downloaded the company’s PyCell Studio development system. These individuals represent over 250 unique companies and over 50 universities.
“There’s a significant benefit to interoperable programmable layout cells usable across several Layout EDA environments,” said Vincent Ross, Sr. Manager, Analog Mixed Signal Circuit CAD of AMD. “We’re pleased with our PyCell results to date; the productivity of the object-oriented approach is especially promising. The PyCells provide the ability to bring advanced layout tools into our flows quickly."
“Customers consistently tell us they need higher productivity in PDK development, both through interoperability and through fundamentally better handling of nanometer silicon complexity,” said Eric Filseth, CEO of Ciranova.
“The use of PyCells has grown along with the use of OpenAccess, and especially along with the adoption of 65nm and below silicon by the world’s elite semiconductor companies.”
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Silicon Clocks tapes out two chips using Ciranova PyCells
SANTA CLARA, USA: Ciranova, Inc. announced today that Silicon Clocks had successfully taped out two MEMS chips, implementing the company’s modular CMEMSTM (Standard CMOS + MEMS) process technology platform, using a process design kit (PDK) created in part using PyCell Studio.
“With CMEMSTM, we are bringing a monolithically integrated MEMS platform technology to market,” said Emmanuel Quevy, CTO of Silicon Clocks. “It was crucial for us to choose the most productive and interoperable building blocks for our flow. We chose PyCell Studio because PyCells are fully compatible with our in-house Virtuoso flow from Cadence Design Systems, and also interoperable with other tools our customers may use.
"The productivity and advanced geometric capability of Ciranova’s PyCell technology has dramatically lowered the cost and complexity of our efforts to create a standardized CMOS-MEMS design kit that integrates seamlessly with any CMOS PDK or design flow."
Historically, MEMS technologies have required boutique processing and complicated packaging strategies. Silicon Clocks’ innovative CMEMS technology enables developers to simultaneously integrate many mechanical devices directly on top of CMOS wafers using more standardized semiconductor fabrication techniques.
PyCells are an integral part of the PDK Silicon Clocks has created to support CMEMS.
“It took me close to two years to create our original MEMS cell code base. It took me under four months to replicate that using PyCells, including my learning curve, which was really short,” said David Bernstein, Device Engineer at Silicon Clocks. “The advanced PyCell API functions save a lot of time compared to other approaches.”
PyCell Studio is a complete development environment for creating interoperable OpenAccess PyCells. Available as a free download from http://www.ciranova.com, PyCell Studio has been downloaded by over 1000 users at 250 companies worldwide.
“With CMEMSTM, we are bringing a monolithically integrated MEMS platform technology to market,” said Emmanuel Quevy, CTO of Silicon Clocks. “It was crucial for us to choose the most productive and interoperable building blocks for our flow. We chose PyCell Studio because PyCells are fully compatible with our in-house Virtuoso flow from Cadence Design Systems, and also interoperable with other tools our customers may use.
"The productivity and advanced geometric capability of Ciranova’s PyCell technology has dramatically lowered the cost and complexity of our efforts to create a standardized CMOS-MEMS design kit that integrates seamlessly with any CMOS PDK or design flow."
Historically, MEMS technologies have required boutique processing and complicated packaging strategies. Silicon Clocks’ innovative CMEMS technology enables developers to simultaneously integrate many mechanical devices directly on top of CMOS wafers using more standardized semiconductor fabrication techniques.
PyCells are an integral part of the PDK Silicon Clocks has created to support CMEMS.
“It took me close to two years to create our original MEMS cell code base. It took me under four months to replicate that using PyCells, including my learning curve, which was really short,” said David Bernstein, Device Engineer at Silicon Clocks. “The advanced PyCell API functions save a lot of time compared to other approaches.”
PyCell Studio is a complete development environment for creating interoperable OpenAccess PyCells. Available as a free download from http://www.ciranova.com, PyCell Studio has been downloaded by over 1000 users at 250 companies worldwide.
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