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Today at DAC, PDF Solutions Demonstrates Its Process-Aware DFM Environment Interoperating With Synopsys Physical Compiler
Visit the Silicon Integration Initiative Booth 3216 to See PDF
pDfx(TM) Software Interoperate with Synopsys Physical Complier
SAN DIEGO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—June 9, 2004—
PDF Solutions(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:PDFS) is demonstrating
interoperability between its pDfx(TM) process-aware DFM environment
and Physical Complier as part of PDF's efforts here in the Silicon
Integration Initiative (Si2) exhibit here. The demonstration
highlights interoperable electronics design tools resulting from the
efforts of the OpenAccess Coalition. The pDfx environment uses the
OpenAccess Data Base as its primary repository for the yield models
used in optimizing designs for manufacturability.
"When PDF Solutions' launched its pDfx process-aware environment
in Q3 2003, we announced our intent to integrate it with all the major
synthesis design flows," said Michael Buehler-Garcia, vice president
of DFM Solutions at PDF Solutions. "Here at DAC, we're delivering on
this by showcasing pDfx integration with the Synopsys and Cadence
flows, and by showing the first pDfx Compliant(TM) Flow, which is from
Magma Design Automation. In a pDfx Compliant flow, PDF's process-aware
DFM environment is embedded in a chip design flow."
About the pDfx Process Aware Design Environment
The pDfx environment packages PDF Solutions' extensive knowledge
of leading-edge IC manufacturability and delivers it directly to IC
designers. Using pDfx, designers can optimize products for
manufacturability before tapeout, which is designed to result in
product cost savings and faster ramps to production-level yields. This
reduces the need to re-spin mask sets for manufacturability issues,
which is essential to designers as IC designs move to 130 nanometer
and smaller technologies. pDfx is designed to integrate with
intellectual property from the target process and with products from
the top EDA vendors.
Initial design efforts using the pDfx environment have resulted in
customers achieving yield improvements ranging from five- to
ten-percent increases in net good die. This level of yield improvement
gives customers of pDfx a major competitive advantage.
About PDF Solutions
PDF Solutions(R), Inc. (Nasdaq: PDFS) is the leading provider of
process-design-integration technologies for manufacturing integrated
circuits (ICs). PDF's software, methodologies, and services enable
semiconductor companies to create IC designs that are more
manufacturable and manufacturing processes that are more capable. By
simulating deep sub-micron product and process interactions, the PDF
solution offers clients reduced time to market, increased IC yield and
performance, and enhanced product reliability and profitability.
Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., PDF operates worldwide with
additional offices in Europe and Japan. For more information, visit
www.pdf.com.
PDF Solutions(R) is a registered trademark, and pDfx and pDfx
Compliant is a trademark, of PDF Solutions, Inc. All other trademarks
are the property of their respective owners.
Contact:
PDF Solutions, Inc.
Sonia Segovia, 408-938-6491 (Investor Relations)
sonia.segovia@pdf.com
or
Armstrong Kendall, Inc.
Abbie Kendall, 503-672-4681 (Public Relations)
abbie@akipr.com
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