As a world-leading semiconductor manufacturer, NEC Electronics has been providing customers with quality ASIC solutions for more than 20 years. Recognizing customers have a wide range of needs, NEC Electronics provides support for a complete range of ASIC options from high-performance, highly integrated cell-based ASICs based on leading-edge technologies to the simple and convenient ASICs based on gate array and embedded array technology, as well as analog ASIC for realizing advanced functions using analog circuits.
NEC Electronics' silicon-proven, integrated RTL-to-GDSII design environment successfully blends technical innovation, real-world engineering experience, partnerships with Cadence Design Systems and a highly sophisticated physical design flow. We leverage extensive experience with a wide variety of designs, customer design styles, and high-volume manufacturing. Based on this experience and considerations appropriate to each technology node, we adjust our methodologies to account for silicon issues such as wire delay, signal integrity, power consumption and design for manufacturability (DFM) to ensure that we meet customer's design requirements.
Cadence maintains a close business and technology relationship with NEC Electronics that combines NEC's ASIC methodology and technologies with Cadence EDA tools and solutions to deliver comprehensive ASIC solutions to our mutual customers.
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NECEL Cell base IC Basic Design Flow
NEC Electronics ASIC Methodology Support Matrix for Cadence Technology
| Simulation |
Cadence® Incisive® Enterprise Simulator |
| RTL Check and Synthesis |
Encounter® RTL Compiler |
| Formal Verification |
Encounter® Conformal® Equivalence Checker |
| Physical Prototyping |
SoC Encounter™ RTL-to-GDSII system |
| Placement |
SoC Encounter™ RTL-to-GDSII system |
| Clock Tree Synthesis |
SoC Encounter™ RTL-to-GDSII system |
| Routing |
SoC Encounter™ RTL-to-GDSII system |
| Timing Optimization |
SoC Encounter™ RTL-to-GDSII system |
| RC Extraction |
Cadence® QRC Extraction |
| Timing Analysis |
Cadence® Encounter® Timing System |
| Crosstalk Analysis |
Cadence® Encounter® Timing System |
| Delay Calculation |
Cadence® Encounter® Timing System |
| IR-Drop Analysis |
VoltageStorm® power and power rail verification |