CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
28 March 2007
Product News
TSMC 65-Nm Libraries First To Support Common Power Format-Enabled Design Flow
Cadence Design Systems, Inc . and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company ( TSMC ) announced the availability of 65-nanometer, low-power libraries from TSMC supporting the Common Power Format (CPF).
Cadence also announced that it has extended its existing TSMC library distribution agreement to include these libraries.
"Low-power design automation for advanced designs is a major contributing factor to increasing the adoption rate for 65-nanometer technology," said Kuo Wu, director of design service marketing at TSMC. "By automating the use of TSMC developed low-power libraries, we're making it easier for designers of low-power design to realize benefits and improved manufacturability."
TSMC is a founding member of the Power Forward Initiative and has collaborated with Cadence on a number of low-power proof-point projects going back to 2003, including the most recent validation of CPF-based design technologies using TSMC's 65-nanometer libraries.
"Cadence and TSMC have worked closely on low-power techniques since 2003," said Jan Willis, senior vice president, Industry Alliances at Cadence "The CPF-enabled design flow that we have proven through our collaborative work delivers the productivity necessary to accelerate the adoption of advanced low-power design techniques."
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