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Synopsys and TSMC Advance Analog Design Migration with Reference Flow Across Advanced TSMC Processes
AI-Driven Analog Design Migration Flow, Powered by Synopsys.ai EDA Suite, Boosts Productivity for Analog and Mixed-Signal SoCs Highlights: AI-driven design
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[{"type":"text","content":"AI-Driven Analog Design Migration Flow, Powered by Synopsys.ai EDA Suite, Boosts Productivity for Analog and Mixed-Signal SoCs \nHighlights:\nAI-driven design solution enables circuit optimization, saving weeks of manual and iterative effort while increasing design quality.Interoperable process design kits for all advanced TSMC FinFET nodes help jumpstart analog designs.RF design reference flow developed by Synopsys, in collaboration with Ansys and Keysight, provides a complete solution for modern RFIC designs.SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced its analog design migration flow is enabled across TSMC's advanced process technologies, including N4P, N3E, and N2. The analog design migration flow, part of the Synopsys Custom Design Family, includes a machine learning-based schematic and template-based layout migration solution to speed up overall analog design migration tasks. As part of the design migration solution, the integrated parasitic-aware, AI-driven optimization technology helps overcome the manual and iterative effort typically required to tune analog designs to meet all specifications. Using the flow, engineers can optimize their design in the new technology node while shaving weeks off engineering time and effort.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\"With the significant performance and power efficiency advantages of TSMC's most advanced process technologies, design teams can bring innovative chips to life that are in high demand for today's smart, connected, and compute-intensive applications,\" said Dan Kochpatcharin, head of the Design Infrastructure Management Division at TSMC. \"Our long history of collaboration with Synopsys continues to benefit mutual customers who are migrating existing analog designs to next-generation TSMC processes, with productive and time to market gains.\"\n\"Increased chip complexities, engineering resource constraints, and tighter delivery windows are driving companies to AI-driven solutions to help accelerate quality of results and time to results,\" said Sanjay Bali, vice president of Strategy and Product Management for the EDA Group at Synopsys. \"Our collaboration with TSMC on the analog design migration flow for TSMC's N4P, N3E, and N2 processes enables mutual customers to unlock massive productivity gains with efficient migration o...