Synopsys' IC Validator certified for final signoff verification

The IC Validator certification covers Design Rule Checks (DRC) and Layout-Vs.-Schematic (LVS) checks for TowerJazz's most popular 180nm analogue/mixed-signal process, allowing customers to design differentiated products. This collaboration ensures that the companies' mutual customers have a choice in comprehensive, proven signoff verification solutions. Synopsys runsets are available for immediate download from TowerJazz.

Tamir Ofer, Senior Director, Design Enablement and Support, TowerJazz, commented: "We are always striving to provide our customers with the latest design tools to enable first-time silicon success and faster time to market. Synopsys has worked with us to set up a comprehensive tool support environment for our 180nm process, and we are actively working to expand IC Validator for signoff verification for all our processes."

IC Validator is a comprehensive physical verification product that includes DRC, LVS, programmable Extended Electrical Rule Checking (EERC) and metal fill insertion. IC Validator's modern architecture and excellent multi-core scalability to 100 CPUs and beyond make it the signoff tool of choice for a growing number of designers, from those developing small analogue chips to those designing the largest, most advanced digital chips.

"TowerJazz is a key partner in our strategy to provide IC Validator full foundry access to the growing list of analogue and mixed-signal designers. We look forward to further close cooperation as we work to expand IC Validator support across all of TowerJazz's process technologies," added Bijan Kiani, Vice President, Product Marketing, Design Group, Synopsys.