Who
Dermott Lynch, VP of Sales and Marketing

Overview
May of 2009 introduced Silicon Frontline as a full-chip 3D extraction company, more accurate than pattern-based extraction tools.
Notes
News – TSMC has adopted Silicon Frontline in their AMS 1.0 reference flow for high precision analog (only field solver included).
UMC – uses Silicon Frontline to generate reference data (they still have [...]

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When I consulted for the start-up company Physware on their new 3d Field Solver 5 years ago it dawned on me – IC designers really need the accuracy of 3D Field Solvers to create their frequency-dependent s-parameters for circuit simulation.
Mentor finally acknowledged the same conclusion as Carey Robertson just wrote about this today.
It appears that [...]

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In SoC designs today parasitic extraction tools produce RC and sometimes L or S-parameter values for full-chip designs using either pattern-matching or equation-based techniques. It gets the job done for most digital designs however when you really need accuracy in your parasitics then you must consider something more accurate, namely a 3D field solver.

Most [...]

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I just upgraded my laptop from Windows Vista to Windows 7 and it got me thinking about Mentor’s Falcon Framework. How are the two even related?
When Microsoft introduced Vista they assumed that the installed base of XP users would be excited to try something new and better. Well, history showed something like only 25% of [...]

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Last Monday I had a conference call with Nick Williams of Tanner EDA along with Dan Hammond (VP Marketing). In April I blogged about my install and use of their tools.
This 21 year-old, privately held EDA company offers IC and MEMS tools on both Windows and Linux boxes.
They have a research group that actually designs [...]

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Dermott Lynch of Silicon Frontline spoke with me by phone on Monday to give an update about how their tools extract 3D accurate RC netlists. We first met at Viewlogic in the 90’s when Dermott was at Quad Designs and Viewlogic acquired the Motive static timing tool.
The first thing that impressed me about Silicon Frontline [...]

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