IC/MEMS

Softmems

SoftMEMS CAD software tools offer a comprehensive and customizable design environment for various MEMS products, such as sensor, RF and optical components.

The company also provides intellectural property that you can use in your system design. You can also make use of their MEMs above IC technologies to build a System-on-Chip.

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Product Name	Product Category	Product Description
MEMS Xplorer?/td>	Design Entry for UNIX workstations	MEMS Xplorer?is a unified MEMS design environment developed by MEMS designers for MEMS designers. Deployed with your EDA tool flow, it provides a customizable, easy-to-use platform that permits targeting of specific process technologies. With MEMS Xplorer you can move seamlessly from schematic capture all the way to mask, to help you get your MEMS-based products to market rapidly and reliably.
MEMS Pro?/td>	Design Entry for PC operating systems	MEMS Pro?is engineered by MEMS designers for non-specialists and MEMS specialists alike, providing a unified MEMS and IC design environment. It includes certain software elements licensed from Tanner Research. MEMS Pro is a customizable, easy-to-use platform that permits targeting of specific process technologies. With MEMS Pro you can move seamlessly from schematic capture all the way to mask to get your MEMS-based products to market rapidly and reliably.
MEMS Master?/td>	System Level Design	Increase drastically your MEMS design productivity and speed up your product development cycle by adopting a top-down design methodology. MemsMaster enables MEMS designers to capture and simulate accurately and quickly their MEMS design ideas. MEMS Master is composed of two environments, M2Architect, for design capture and M2Librarian, for library management, plus a number of MEMS libraries. It allows designers a fast prototyping of MEMS design ideas based on the simulation of behavioral models with mixed signal IC simulators.
MEM Modeler?	System Level Design	MEMS Modeler is a behavioral model generator. It reduces a finite element model from ANSYS into a reduced order model in Verilog-A or VHDL_AMS.

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Stone Pillar Technologies

Stone Pillar TechnologiesTM is the leading provider of software tools supporting semiconductor process technology development.

Stone Pillar's Silicon Insight tools are used at leading semiconductor companies and research institutions worldwide to speed test chip creation, design rule generation, test plan creation, data analysis, and report generation.

Silicon Insight saves our customers engineering time, engineering capital, and improves tracebility and technology development processes.

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Product Name	Product Category	Product Description
Silicon Insight?/td>	Foundry Process Development	Process Technology Development Framework -- Silicon Insight is a business intelligence tool enabling complete, integrated data management for companies engaged in the development, monitoring, and improvement of semiconductor processes or circuits. Silicon Insight is designed to improve process development cycle times, optimize process performance, enable faster yield ramping, and enhance process stability by providing access to all aspects of semiconductor design and test data through an integrated system and improving communication of this data within an organization. Silicon Insight offers a set of application tools tailored to semiconductor process and circuit development and maintenance which enable automation and optimization of common tasks and provide unique functionality to improve engineering efficiency. Silicon Insight reduces the requirement for experimental split lots by making information about experiments available and transparent across an organization. Silicon Insight enables engineers engaged in the integration and characterization of new analog/mixed-signal semiconductor processes to focus on analysis, rather than tedious and error-prone tasks of gathering and formatting data.
DeviceTarget Manager	Foundry Process Development	Complete Device Target Management System -- Silicon Insight DeviceTargetManager provides a GUI-driven utility for documenting, storing, version controlling, and sign-off for supported devices and target parameter values. DeviceTargetManager allows administrator control of supported device lists, and related device parameters. All information entered into DeviceTargetManager is stored in the Silicon Insight database and can be reviewed in conjunction with subsequent experimental data.
TestChip Builder	Foundry Process Development	Complete Test Chip Layout System -- Silicon Insight - TestChipBuilder offers a complete, integrated, graphically driven system for test structure generation. TestChipBuilder can automatically vary the geometries from a library of devices types or from completely customizable structures defined using our unique Javascript-based template building capabilities. The devices can automatically be included within a user configurable pad ring. The resulting test chip can be automatically routed using controlled wiring attributes. Test chips can automatically be updated to reflect changes to DRC rules. The generated structures can be stored as hierarchical GDS2. Contact names are automatically assigned to facilitate test plan development. Linking between test results and test structure layout is automatically created and maintained by the Silicon Insight data handler.
DesignRule Builder	Foundry Process Development	Automated Layout Design Rule & DRC Run Set Generation -- Silicon Insight - DesignRuleBuilder enables rapid, automated calculation, generation and documentation of layout design rules. Complete DRC / LVS run sets for a variety of DRC tools can be generated automatically from these rules. Rules intelligently incorporate information on unit process manufacturing capabilities (such as inter-layer alignment tolerances and unit process variations) and electrical constraints. Maximize yield by automatically including process variability factors in layout design rule values. Easily regenerate complete DRC / LVS run sets as unit process capabilities or electrical constraints change. Change effortlessly from one DRC / LVS tool to another. Supported DRC / LVS tools include: DRACULA, CALIBRE
ProcessFlow Manager	Foundry Process Development	Management system for Process Modules and Flows -- Silicon Insight ProcessFlowManager provides a convenient tool for review of process flow details in a hierachical viewer that lets you drill down to the needed level of detail for process steps of interest while shielding unnecessary details from other process steps. ProcessFlowManager also provides a process management level view that provides module usage and process staus indications in a convenient filterable table. ProcessFlowManager includes highlighting capabilities that make it easy for remote locations to communicate unambiguously about specific process steps. ProcessFlowManager includes revision control and difference analysis that make it easy to analyze changes in process flow over time and connect these with changes in device performance or yield. ProcessFlowManager saves all process flows to the Silicon Insight database so that they can be linked to individual measured data and experiments.
Experiment Builder	Foundry Process Development	Experiment Design & Definition -- Silicon Insight - ExperimentBuilder enables the rapid definition of split lot experiments with reference to a baseline process flow. Experiments are defined with a familiar matrix editor and are stored in the Silicon Insight database for analysis, alongside future electrical test results. Split details are automatically linked with experimental parameters and test structures.
TestPlan Manager	Foundry Process Development	Automated Test Plan Creation -- Silicon Insight TestPlanManager automates test plan creation and eliminates time consuming and error-prone hand coding of test plans. TestPlanManager retrieves information about test chips created by either TestChipBuilder or externally produced. TestPlanManager then creates any needed device instances within the Silicon Insight database and presents the devices and their parameters to the user in a tabular form. The user can then select from libraries of available tests and apply these to one or more devices. The tests can be grouped for convenience and flows such as complete or reduced test flows can be stored within the Silicon Insight database. Once the desired flows have been created, TestPlanManager will automatically create test plans that can be run on standard test equipment.
DataAnalyzer	Foundry Process Development	Automated Data Analysis for Process Optimization -- Silicon Insight DataAnalyzer provides rapid, complete and easy-to-use data analysis, including spreadsheet, scatter plots, box plots, and timelines of parameter drift. An automated and comprehensive split lot analysis environment accelerates your timeline to generate lot reports, draw firmer conclusions and accelerate learning cycles.
SpiceModel Manager	Foundry Process Development	Complete SPICE model archive and review tool -- SpiceModelManager provides a complete interactive environment for the review and validation of SPICE models. SpiceModelManager speeds review of SPICE models versus electrical test data, and for different SPICE engines. SpiceModelManager also provides revision control and facilitates change review.

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Zeni IC Design

Zeni, a worldwide leader in electronic design automation (EDA) software, provides an extensive array of integrated circuit (IC) design solutions for Digital, Analog, RF, and Mixed-Signal applications.

Zeni's mission is to deliver the worlds next generation Analog and RF IC Design Flow that allows engineers to significantly shorten their design cycles and for companies to significantly accelerate time-to-market and reduce product development costs.

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Product Name	Product Category	Product Description
Zeni Design Manager?/td>	Design Entry Setup Tools	Zeni's Design Manager (DM) is a fully functional "design cockpit" from which the user(s) can manage their IC design activities from start to finish, including technology setup files and all design hierarchies. Embedded in the Design Manager is the Technology Center, an easy to use and feature rich interface to manage all of the common design setup templates for process layers, layer mapping, signal and short tracing criteria, via and contact setup, and more.
Zeni Schematic Editor?/td>	Design Entry	Zeni's Schematic Editor (SE), a full functional, feature rich, circuit design tool and simulator, offers the IC designer a complete environment from which to easily and quickly complete sophisticated IC designs. SE has capabilities to support Digital, Analog, Mixed Signal, or RF designs.
Zeni Physical Designer?/td>	IC Physical Design Tools	Zeni's Physical Designer (PD) features cell/object based hierarchical mask-level support for all industry standard physical layout features and is optimized for high-speed operation (fast stream in/out) and support of large databases. The physical design tool supports the use of advanced parameterized cells (Vcell) and is integrated with VERI to provide the most advanced debug and verification capabilities of any other flow.
Zeni Verification?	Verification	Verification (VERI) is the basis for Paragon's advanced debug and verification capabilities including complete support for DRC (design rule check), ERC (electric rule check), LVS (layout vs. schematic), PE (parasitic extraction), and SI (signal integrity) analysis. VERI includes one of the most versatile physical verification suites available on the market today supporting online (integrated with Zeni's Physical Designer tool), standalone, and batch operation. VERI also offers more advanced debug features not available with other tools.

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