TSMC Unveils the Foundry Industry's First Internet-Based Service for Design Document Retrieval
HSIN-CHU, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2002--TSMC today
unveiled DocuFast, the foundry industry's first internet-based
searching and grouping sevices on design-related documents. Available
to designers using TSMC's On-line suite of design collaboration tools,
the new service provides the most complete and automated design
document preparation, maintenance, and sharing capability in the
foundry industry.
DocuFast Service consists of a wide-ranging suite of prepackaged
and verified design-related technology documents specific to TSMC's
technologies, such as Design Rule Manuals, Spice Models, DRC (Design
Rule Check) command files, LVS (Layout vs. Schematic) command files
and RCX (RC Extraction) files. With the service, documents specific to
a designer's particular project can be compiled and stored in a
virtual reference area, reducing time-consuming document preparation
lead-time from days to less than an hour. Re-work on design is also
reduced through early version change notification.
"DocuFast is a key online tool from TSMC to help designers speed
and simplify their interaction with the industry's first true design
collaboration platform," said Genda Hu, vice president of marketing
for TSMC. "This latest advance addresses one of the most difficult
problems that all the designers are facing today. Not only because of
the technology complexity which results in many different documents,
but because of the frequent engineering changes, which results in many
different versions of documents. DocuFast can accurately and most
effectively help the designers to locate and retrieve the correct
documents he or she needs."
DocuFast provides fast access to all of the documents required to
support a design after specifying a TSMC process technology. The
internet-based service leads the designer through a series of
easy-to-follow steps to create a customized, up-to-date TSMC design
document package.
Designers can also share their customized DocuFast document
package with other design team members. Notification of future
Engineering Change Notices (ECNs) for specific technology documents
will be mailed automatically to all members sharing DocuFast document
packages, so that timely design impact study and updates can be
implemented. With the included version information and control
capability, DocuFast allows designers to manage the version
consistency of their design files at any given moment, ensuring design
integrity and further reducing design cycle time.
In addition to its design document management capability, DocuFast
enhances the fast assessment of design options. It provides a detailed
up-to-date fact sheets for over 40 TSMC technologies, ranging from
0.35-micron to 0.13-micron line widths and including CMOS and BiCMOS
logic, mixed signal, silicon germanium, Flash, Emb1TRAM embedded
memory and image sensor technology. Designers can select and compare
different fact sheets through a consistent user interface. All
DocuFast document packages and fact sheets can be downloaded in
Microsoft Excel-compatible format to facilitate rapid communication
among design team members.
About TSMC
TSMC is the world's largest dedicated semiconductor foundry,
providing the industry's leading process technology and the foundry
industry's largest portfolio of process-proven library, IP, design
tools and reference flows. The company operates two advanced 300mm
wafer fabs, six eight-inch fabs and one six-inch wafer fabs. TSMC also
has substantial capacity commitments at two joint ventures fabs
(Vanguard and SSMC) and at its wholly-owned subsidiary, WaferTech. In
early 2001, TSMC became the first IC manufacturer to announce a 90
nanometer technology alignment program with its customers. TSMC's
corporate headquarters are in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan. For more information
about TSMC go to http://www.tsmc.com.
Contact:
TSMC North America
Dan Holden, 408/382-8000; 408/910-1141 (Cell)
Dholden@tsmc.com
Source:
TSMC North America
