Siemens Digital Industries Software announces that its Analog FastSPICE (AFS) platform is now certified for United Microelectronics Corporation’s (UMC) 28nm high-performance, low-power process technology. Customers using Siemens‘ AFS platform can now leverage the performance enhancement and power efficiency of UMC‘s proven 28HPCU+ process for their next-generation analog/mixed-signal designs.
“We continue to have a strong collaboration with UMC to provide comprehensive support for UMC’s process technologies for our mutual customers – said Ravi Subramanian, senior vice president and general manager of IC verification solutions, Siemens Digital Industries Software -. Our Analog FastSPICE simulation technology complements UMC’s 28HPCU+ processes by providing our mutual customers with a highly accurate, high-performance verification solution. We look forward to our continued partnership with UMC for a wide range of technology nodes”.
Siemens’ Analog FastSPICE platform provides leading-edge circuit verification for nanometer analog, radio frequency (RF), mixed-signal, memory and custom digital circuits. It delivers a unified platform with mixed-signal and variation-aware verification capabilities that have superior accuracy, performance, capacity and functionality.
“Verification using Siemens‘ AFS platform on UMC’s production-ready 28HPCU+ process technology reduces the time for proof of analog, improves verification accuracy and accelerates the design process for our shared customers – said David Chen, senior division director of technology development at UMC -. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with Siemens to provide more design and verification tools for a variety of high-growth markets and applications”.
UMC’s 28HPCU+ platform offers a good balance between cost considerations and chip performance, and is well-suited for a range of applications requiring high-speed and low-power consumption, including integrated circuits (ICs) for Wi-Fi, digital TV and flash controllers applications. Compared to the company’s 28nm technology, the high-performance, low-power 28HPCU+ platform can offer up to a 15 % boost in performance.