by Angela Guess
A recent press release reports, “Solido Design Automation, a leading provider of variation-aware design and characterization software, today announced the immediate release of its Machine Learning (ML) Characterization Suite. This new product uses machine learning to significantly reduce standard cell, memory, and I/O characterization time, helping semiconductor designers meet aggressive production schedules. Growth in quickly advancing semiconductor segments, including high performance computing, automotive, mobile, and Internet of Things (IoT), is driving chip complexity with the need to move to more advanced designs. Standard cell, memory, and I/O characterization is a resource-intensive runtime bottleneck, often with challenges to meet production accuracy requirements.”
The release continues, “Solido’s ML Characterization Suite significantly reduces the time and resources required for library characterization, while delivering production-accurate library models. ML Characterization Suite’s machine learning algorithms efficiently and accurately model the characterization space. Real-time cross-validation techniques are then applied to determine model error and fit. Solido’s approach is tuned to work across all Liberty data types, including timing, power, noise, waveform, and statistical data.”
It goes on, “The following tools are included in ML Characterization Suite: Predictor instantly and accurately generates new Liberty models at new conditions. It does this by modeling the full Liberty space using sparse data from existing Liberty models at other conditions. This reduces up-front characterization time as well as turnaround to generate Liberty files. Predictor works with all Liberty formats and reduces library characterization time by 30% to 70%. Statistical Characterizer quickly delivers true 3-sigma statistical timing data (LVF/AOCV/POCV) values with Monte Carlo and SPICE accuracy, including non-Gaussian distributions. It adaptively selects simulations to meet accuracy requirements and to minimize runtime for all cells, corners, arcs, and slew-load combinations.”
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