GLOBALSOLUTIONS at DAC 2012

Apache Design, an ANSYS subsidiary, enables simulation-driven IC and electronic systems design providing chip-level power analysis, optimization, and sign-off solutions. Apache's products advance low-power innovation and address chip-package-system power and noise challenges. Using Apache's simulation software early in the design process enables top semiconductor companies to gain a competitive advantage delivering more power-efficient, high-performance, and noise immune chips. Apache's products lower power consumption, increase performance, mitigate risks, reduce cost, and shorten time-to-market for a broad range of end-markets and applications.

Aragio Solutions is recognized worldwide as a premier provider of innovative I/O Library IP for integrated circuits. Aragio's I/O technology features robust ESD protection and high latch-up immunity enabling high performance operation for standard system interfaces including USB 2.0/3.0, DDR2/DDR3, ONFI2/ONFI3, mDDR/LPDDR2, LVDS, and SD. In addition to programmable GPIO and comprehensive standard I/O libraries, Aragio provides ESD protection for RF (< 270 fF), Analog, and other high speed, high performance mixed signal interfaces. Partnering with GLOBALFOUNDRIES since 2005, Aragio Solutions delivers silicon-efficient, silicon-verified I/O libraries on 65nm, 55nm, 40nm, and 28nm process nodes. Contact sales@aragio.com

ARM designs the technology at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices.  ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 32-bit / 64-bit RISC microprocessors, graphics processors, video engines, logic libraries, embedded memories, and high-speed connectivity products.

The ARM® Artisan® physical IP platforms deliver optimized IP for best-in-class processor implementations on GLOBALFOUNDRIES manufacturing processes.  These platforms are comprised of easy-to-use logic libraries, memory compilers and interface IP offering System-on-Chip (SoC) designers the ability to balance performance, power, and area for optimal SoC designs and reduced time-to-market.

Cadence is a global leader in software and hardware design tools, silicon IP, and design services that are transforming the EDA industry. The Cadence vision for this transformation is called EDA360 –it embraces the entire spectrum of the design process and focuses on application-driven design. Working together, Cadence and GLOBALFOUNDRIES enable customers to bring innovative designs to market while meeting performance, power, cost, and time-to-market goals. Find out how this collaboration is helping designers in the areas of analog, digital, and mixed signal design, as well as DFM at advanced process nodes including 28 and 20nm.

Catena is a design service and IP provider working with System and IC development for various communication applications; e.g. IEEE802.11abgnp, Bluetooth, GPS, Glonass, FM Broadcast Tuners, TV Tuners and Medical Electronics. Our developments are mainly one chip solutions including RF, Analog, Mixed Signal, DSP and Embedded Software. Catena was founded in the Netherlands in 1986 and is employing 150 skilled engineers. Our customers are both large multinational semiconductor companies and smaller high innovation companies, with whom we have established successful long term cooperation and increased customer revenues. We are working in BiCMOS and CMOS technologies, from 40 nm and up.

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany SUNY (CNSE) is a fully-integrated research, development, prototyping, and educational facility that provides strategic support through outreach, technology acceleration, business incubation, pilot prototyping, and test-based integration support for onsite corporate partners including IBM, Intel, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, SEMATECH, Samsung, TSMC, Toshiba, Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, ASML and Novellus Systems, as well as other “next generation” nanotechnology research activities. GLOBALFOUNDRIES and CNSE, located 30 miles apart, are engaged in discussions and work on collaborative research, development and wafer processing at CNSE.

The ChipEstimate.com chip planning portal is an ecosystem comprised of over 200 of the world's largest IP suppliers and foundries.  These companies all share in the common vision of helping the worldwide electronics design community achieve greater profitability and success. To date, a diverse global audience of over 35,000 users have joined the ChipEstimate.com community and has collectively performed over 145,000 chip estimations. Visit the ChipEstimate.com booth where you can learn about the latest in semiconductor design and verification IP.

Lorentz Solution, Inc. develops solutions for high speed analog and RF IC circuit designers. Chances are your smart phone or tablet is built with PeakView designed devices. PeakView is a complete design platform, with an integral full wave electromagnetic field solver that works to easily create and analyze on-chip passive structures, including caps, inductors, transmission lines and critical interconnect. PeakView is tightly integrated with Virtuoso and Laker on any process or PDK, including advanced processes like 28nm and 20nm. Lorentz and GLOBALFOUNDRIES have had a long standing relationship. As a customer of Lorentz, GLOBALFOUNDRIES uses the PeakView Design Platform for internal R&D. As a partner of GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Lorentz provides design-flow centric EM solutions including modeling of CMP effects for mutual customers developing RF and high-speed analog designs.

The Mentor environment is a primary interface between GLOBALFOUNDRIES customers and its leading edge manufacturing processes. Mentor supports all nodes to 20nm, with 14nm under development. The Calibre® platform is the primary RET/OPC and PV sign off solution at GLOBALFOUNDRIES, and the Olympus-SoC P&R system supports 20nm with new Double Patterning features. The GLOBALFOUNDRIES DRC+ solution for litho hotspot prevention is based on Calibre pattern matching technology, and we have jointly deployed a methodology that helps customers rapidly eliminate design-based yield detractors to accelerate their yield ramp. Mentor also provides comprehensive SoC test solutions including scan-based, BIST, and 3D-IC test.

Socle Technology Corporation, founded in 2001 and invested by GLOBALFOUNDRIES since December 2009, is well-recognized as a leading-edge provider of SoC design and implementation services as well as an architect for more complicated SoC design technology in advanced process nodes. As a strategic partner, Socle has developed some of the best ARM hardcore and ARM embedded SoC platforms among ARM solution providers worldwide. For the best design service with the one-stop-shop convenience, Socle works closely with GLOBALFOUNDRIES and other world-class partners of IP, EDA, and assembly and testing. www.socle-tech.com

For 25 years, Synopsys has provided the world's most innovative semiconductor companies with the EDA software, IP and services needed to meet increasingly complex SoC design challenges (www.synopsys.com). Visit Synopsys at the GLOBALFOUNDRIES Partner Pavilion (Booth # 303) to learn more about our comprehensive design enablement solutions for GLOBALFOUNDRIES leading-edge process technologies that help meet your high-performance, low-power and time-to-market requirements.

Uniquify provides ASIC/SoC design services, SoC/SSoC integration and manufacturing services, and high-performance IP to fabless semiconductor companies, system manufacturers, foundries and IDMs. Its Perseus™ design management frame work enables fast delivery and repeatable and consistent design closure on complex chip design projects. By combining design and leading-edge process expertise with manufacturing services and an extensive IP portfolio, Uniquify offers a turnkey solution that spans chip specification and design through volume delivery of packaged and tested parts.