Synopsys Cadabra 2008.09 Linux
Library developers are facing increasing challenges at the 65nm and 45nm nodes, including increasing design rule complexity, time-to-market pressures, library richness, and late design rule changes. Manual layout is becoming increasingly impractical and expensive. The Cadabra® product offers a fully automated tool for the creation of standard cells layouts from SPICE netlists, and for migration of existing standard cell layouts to new design rules or architectures. With easy to use graphical interfaces and results that rival hand-crafted, the Cadabra product is the market leader in automated standard cell layout. Design Rule ComplexityWith advanced manufacturing processes, the number of design rules that must be enforced for each layer is increasing rapidly. Moreover, many of the newer design rules are complex rules...