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Industry’s fastest-adopted and trusted timing signoff solution for FinFET designs
Accelerates time to design closure
The Cadence® Tempus™ Timing Signoff Solution is the industry’s most trusted static timing analysis (STA) tool for FinFET designs. It is the fastest STA tool in the industry with unique distributed processing and cloud capabilities scaling to hundreds of CPUs to quickly complete even the largest designs.
With full foundry certification and a comprehensive set of advanced capabilities, the cloud-ready Tempus solution delivers SPICE-accurate results to hundreds of customers across a broad range of design types, from the high-performance designs to high-volume mobile designs, and mixed-signal chips on mature processes.
More than just an analysis tool, the Tempus solution is also deeply integrated with the Cadence Innovus™ Implementation System, Quantus™ Extraction Solution, and Voltus™ IC Power Solution.
Cadence is focused on innovating in partnership with the industry’s most advanced companies to create even-greater design advantage and shorten time to market with best-in-class power, performance, and area (PPA).
One key aspect of interest to our customers is design robustness and its tradeoff with PPA. Design robustness is a six-prong approach to providing the highest quality of designs via Cadence’s suite of analysis tools—namely ultra-low Vdd robustness, aging robustness (aging-aware STA),voltage robustness (Tempus Power Integrity solution), process robustness (timing robustness), VT robustness, and interconnect robustness.
Aging-Aware STA with Liberate Characterization Solution
High-reliability semiconductor applications such as automotive and defense must operate predictably over long timespans. To ensure high reliability, designers require accurate analysis of device performance over time without relying on pessimistic margining techniques that negatively impact PPA. To solve this problem, our unified flow, starting from Liberate characterization through to Tempus STA and Tempus ECO, enables designers to accurately analyze aging effects in the context of their design. This improved accuracy, in turn, allows for a re-examination of margins and subsequent PPA savings.
Tempus Power Integrity Solution with Voltus Solution for STA-Aware IR Drop
Traditional IR drop methodologies have struggled to keep up with the latest silicon technologies, leading to an increase in silicon failures at 7nm and below. The Tempus Power Integrity Solution integrates the Tempus and Voltus solutions to deliver next-generation IR drop analysis and fixing technology.
Tempus Power Integrity identifies voltage-sensitive paths in your design and then automatically generates activity vectors that will activate these voltage-sensitive paths as well as nearby voltage aggressor cells, thereby finding potential IR drop failures that traditional methodologies miss. Once detected, the Tempus ECO Option will automatically fix IR drop issues by optimizing both the victim and aggressor paths.
Timing Robustness
Timing robustness is the statistical measure of chip performance. It co-exists with conventional signoff slack analysis and provides a complimentary metric to slack analysis for use during Tempus ECO optimization. Its key benefit is to ensure high reliability while avoiding unnecessary over-design and delivering improved PPA.
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The Tempus Timing Signoff Solution has been our timing tool for all of our SoCs that enable smart TV, set-top boxes and media connectivity. Its runtime performance, coupled with integration within the Cadence Innovus™ Implementation System, has allowed us to significantly reduce the time we spend in timing signoff.
Jacques Martinella, Vice President, Engineering, Sigma Designs
The size and complexity characteristics of our latest design required a timing solution that could handle more than 50M cells quickly and efficiently. We determined that the Tempus Timing Signoff Solution was the right timing platform to address our signoff analysis and closure needs.
Toru Hiyama, General Manager for Platform Advanced Engineering Operation, Information and Telecommunication System Company, Hitachi, Ltd.
The Tempus Timing Signoff Solution has enabled us to complete several successful tapeouts of our datacenter interconnect solutions. We were able to effectively use the tool for distributed multi-mode, multi-corner (MMMC) timing analysis and closure to get our products out the door and into the fab.
Lawrence Tse, Vice President of Engineering, Inphi
Cadence is committed to keeping design teams highly productive. A range of support offerings and processes helps Cadence users focus on reducing time-to-market and achieving silicon success.
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