Intel Custom Foundry: Design Solutions

Full-Service Design and Methodology Support

Process co-optimized design kits on industry standard electronic design automation (EDA) tools, flows, and intellectual properties (IP) verified on silicon augmented by a diverse third-party ecosystem.

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Stable Design Platforms Mean Reduced Time-to-Market

World-class technology demands world-class design solutions.

Our fully-qualified design platform includes design kits and flows, and IP verified on silicon. These intellectual properties (IP) are developed and optimized by us or by our design ecosystem providers. All the IPs are verified and characterized prior to delivery to our customers to ensure quality and functionality of the customer’s silicon. Our joint IP and package modeling ensures no unanticipated interactions at a product level. Combination of pre-verified IP and co-optimized packaging provides a high level of confidence in first time right success.

We deliver qualified design solutions early in the technology development, so that our customers can also get the benefit of early access to technology. There are no delays waiting for lead customers to debug our process for us. This is another clear advantage of working with an integrated device manufacturer (IDM).

Time-to-market can be further enhanced by making use of our ASIC design services team. Like all of our designers, they have two generations of FinFET and multi-patterning technology under their belt. This unique experience has helped improve our design kits and design flows to enhance the productivity of our designers and improve the performance, reliability, and yield of completed designs.

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Robert Blake, Achronix CEO:

"We evaluated many SerDes suppliers for our high performance Achronix* FPGAs. Both the 12.75G SerDes using Intel’s 22nm technology and the 32G SerDes using Intel's 14nm technology met our stringent power/performance requirements and the broad range of features that we needed,” said Robert Blake, CEO of Achronix. “The SerDes from Intel Custom Foundry is a key differentiating technology for the growing range of high-speed interfaces that our FPGAs require."

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We offer a full collection of IP ranging from an extensive set of foundational IP (standard cell libraries and memory compilers) to a full range of analog IP and advanced IP that includes our industry-leading SerDes.

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We have a complete set of industry standard design flows supported by leading electronic design automation (EDA) tools that incorporate all of the knowledge we have gained through multiple generations of volume manufacture of tri-gate technology.

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We have a design team with years of experience completing complex application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) services and SoCs for infrastructure and mobile markets on Intel Custom Foundry’s design platform. Our ASIC services include repeatable and high-yielding first time right methodologies. Our customers get the benefits of faster time-to-market and optimized performance, power, and area metrics.

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Design Ecosystem

We align with a broad range of industry-leading EDA suppliers early in the technology development cycle to incorporate the nuances of our technologies into their design tools. Our foundry ecosystem is growing quickly to meet the needs of current and future customers.

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ANSYS

ANSYS provides reference flows for system-on-chip (SoC) power and electromigration (EM) sign-off for Intel's 10nm, 14 nm, and 22 nm tri-gate process technology for use by customers of Intel Custom Foundry. Intel® tri-gate technology is a proprietary 3D transistor technology with the gate surrounding the channel on all three sides of the transistor. It provides designers with dramatic performance, power, and area benefits for their products versus previous generations of transistors.

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ANSYS and Intel Custom Foundry teams developed reference flows around ANSYS RedHawk* for System-On-Chip (SoC) power and EM sign-off, ANSYS Totem* for custom intellectual property power and EM integrity and ANSYS PathFinder* for full-chip ESD validation. This collaboration extends the previous 22nm effort to now include the 14nm design platform.

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Cadence

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. provides intellectual properties (IP) and design flows for Intel's 10 nm, 14 nm, and 22 nm tri-gate process technology for use by customers of Intel Custom Foundry. Intel® tri-gate technology is a proprietary 3D transistor technology with the gate surrounding the channel on all three sides of the transistor. It provides designers with dramatic performance, power and area benefits for their products versus previous generations of transistors.

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Cadence and Intel have together enabled custom/analog and digital flows built on a suite of Cadence tools. Using these design flows, customers can leverage the power, performance, and area benefits of Intel's 14 nm process technology.

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Mentor Graphics

Mentor Graphics provides circuit simulations and sign-off tools for Intel's 10 nm tri-gate process technology for use by customers of Intel Custom Foundry. Intel® tri-gate technology is a proprietary 3D transistor technology with the gate surrounding the channel on all three sides of the transistor. It provides designers with dramatic performance, power, and area benefits for their products vs. previous generations of transistors.

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Mentor's circuit simulation and sign-off tools are fully enabled for Intel® 10 nm tri-gate process technology for customers of Intel Custom Foundry. The Calibre nmDRC* and Calibre nmLVS* platforms help teams optimize their designs to meet process requirements, providing industry-leading cycle time and physical verification accuracy. Customers are now able to apply these differentiated capabilities to designs targeted on Intel Custom Foundry's design platform. The Analog FastSPICE* circuit simulator for nanometer analog, mixed-signal and RF verification delivers foundry-certified SPICE accuracy and industry-leading performance, capacity and device noise analysis.

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Synopsys

Synopsys, Inc. provides intellectual properties (IP) and design flows for Intel's 10 nm, 14 nm, and 22 nm tri-gate process technologies for use by customers of Intel Custom Foundry. Intel® tri-gate technology is a proprietary 3D transistor technology with the gate surrounding the channel on all three sides of the transistor. It provides designers with dramatic performance, power, and area benefits for their products vs. previous generations of transistors.

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The Intel Custom Foundry 14 nm design platform supports Synopsys' industry-leading Galaxy Design Platform* tools and RTL-to-GDSII methodology. The Galaxy Design Platform* provides a holistic solution in tightly integrated tool chains, enabling a seamless flow. Intel and Synopsys collaborated closely in developing this enablement to ensure that the tools meet the challenging tri-gate requirements and model the complexities involved.

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