Celestry Announces Selection of its IC Performance Improvement Tools by STMicroelectronics
Celestry's reliability analysis maximizes performance and yield
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2002--Celestry Design
Technologies, Inc. (San Jose, California, USA), the leading provider
of Silicon Accurate Sign-off(TM) physical analysis software and
services for the semiconductor and electronics industry, today
announced that STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM - news) has selected Celestry's
Hot-Carrier Injection (HCI) analysis products to increase the
performance of ST's high-end designs.
To increase circuit performance without risking excessive yield
failures, a designer must analyze and address reliability. Celestry's
RelPro+(TM), a device-level reliability analyzer, BSIMPro(TM) a model
parameter extractor and RelXpert(TM), a circuit-level reliability
simulator -- enable designers to intelligently manage performance and
yield tradeoffs.
"We focus on maximizing density, performance and yield for our
many high-volume circuits," said Philippe Margarshack, Group
Vice-President, Central R&D, STMicroelectronics. "With Celestry's
products we can design more aggressively in our 0.13um CMOS and BICMOS
processes, and obtain higher performance and better density products
for our Computer Peripherals and Consumer markets, while at the same
time not compromising yield and long-term reliability."
Emmanuel Vincent, Reliability Manager, Central R&D,
STMicroelectronics, added, "For our high performance designs, HCI is
an important issue. Celestry's products make it easy for our designers
to assess and prevent circuit-level reliability issues caused by HCI
effects. We are also investigating other process reliability issues
like NBTI with Celestry."
"We are very pleased to have our reliability tools selected by ST,
a leading global manufacturer of high-performance products," said Dr.
Zhihong Liu, President and CEO of Celestry. "The endorsement from ST
confirms that yield and performance problems of today's IC processes
must be addressed now."
About Celestry
Celestry is the leading provider of physical design and analysis
products that enable integrated circuit designers to achieve optimal
performance from semi conductor process technologies. The Company
offers software and services to electronic and semiconductor companies
involved with the design of chips that are used in networking,
communication, multimedia and computing products. For more
information, visit www.celestry.com or email info@celestry.com.
Notes to Editors: For more details on how reliability issues like
HCI and NBTI affect IC design performance and manufacturing yield,
please refer to www.celestry.com/reliability.
Acronyms:
HCI: Hot-Carrier Injection
IC: Integrated Circuit
NBTI: Negative Bias Temperature Instability
Celestry, the Celestry logo, Silicon Accurate Sign-off, BSIMPro,
RelPro and RelXpert are trademarks of Celestry Design Technologies,
Inc. All other trademarks and tradenames are the property of their
respective owners.
Contact:
ValleyPR for Celestry
Georgia Marszalek, 650/345-7477
Georgia@ValleyPR.com
www.celestry.com
