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Columbus - RLC Extraction for Nanometer SoC Design

The Columbus product suite provides unparalleled RLC parasitic extraction accuracy and versatility to meet the design challenges at 65nm and beyond. Eliminate costly re-spins and tape out your designs with confidence knowing that interconnect parasitics won't compromise performance. Only Columbus's patented extraction engine delivers the precision needed to model on-chip variations in today's advanced process technologies, allowing you to reduce guardbands and achieve silicon success. Columbus offers both gate-level and device-level extraction capabilities, ensuring integration into your power, reliability and signal integrity flows for standard cell, custom digital, mixed signal and analog designs.

Columbus-Turbo - High-Capacity Extraction for Nanometer Standard-Cell Design

Columbus-TURBO Highlights

High capacity architecture extracts RC for both power rails and signal nets in 10M instance designs

3M+ net per hour speed using LSF compatible multiprocessing

Extracts multi-level hierarchical designs comprising of nested standard cell and full custom blocks

Models process variations and density-related effects including fill and metal slotting

Supports Cadence, Magma and Synopsys place and route flows

Columbus-AMS - Accurate RLC Extraction For High-Performance Analog

Columbus-AMS Highlights

Graphical interface to Cadence Analog Design Environment controls extraction without leaving Virtuoso

Smart Probing lets you analyze R, L and C interactively

Proven inductance extraction lets you model clocks, buses and other critical high speed signals

Selective parasitic modeling around devices eliminates double counting

Compact parasitic netlists give efficient circuit simulation

Consistent accuracy, particularly around contacted FET's, reduces guardbands and increases confidence in tapeouts

LSF-compatible multiprocessing accelerates large extraction jobs

Supports Calibre, Diva, Assura LVS tools, GDS and LEF/DEF data

Supports a wide variety of analog processes including IBM 5- through 8- series SiGe and CMOS-RF

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