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AUSTIN, TEXAS - IC characterization provider Silicon Metrics Corp. will roll out this week a product line based on its SiliconSmart Models. Included in the lineup is the company's first offering for logic designers-a timing sign-off tool that can extend the accuracy of static timing analyzers.
Also part of the new line is a tool that generates Open Library API (OLA)compliant SiliconSmart Models. Silicon Metrics claims these models use a dynamic approach that is more accurate than today's fixed, static models. The company also says its tools can replace commonly used Standard Delay Format (SDF) back-annotation flows.
Cellrater, the company's first tool, has been renamed SiliconSmart CR. The product promises accurate characterization for IC cell libraries. The new products are SiliconSmart OMC (Open Model Compiler), which generates models, and SiliconSmart TSO (Timing Sign-Off), which gives an accuracy boost to timing analyzers.
"The static, fixed model that is the standard format in the...