Design for Yield Interface to Slam IC Layout Editor.

Stabie-Soft and Predictions Software today announced that they have completed an interface between the Slam Layout Editor and the critical area extraction software PEYE-CAA.

(PRWEB) January 9 2004--The new Slam/PEYE-CAA interface gives designers an opportunity to optimize their designs for high yield within a standard layout environment. Within the Slam Editor, a cell designer can simply select a region of interest to interactively generate both a yield metric and critical area maps of their design. The critical area maps displayed by the Slam Editor highlight those parts of the layout where defects are most likely to cause faults. The maps also give graphical feedback to the designer to help them understand where layout changes can be made and why these changes have improved the design yield metric.

Gerard Allan of Predictions Software said "This new interface to the Slam Editor will allow designers of standard and custom cells easy access to the information they need to optimize their cell designs for high yield. Having design for yield in at the library cell level leverages the yield of every chip that uses the library.".

Mike Stabienfelt of Stabie-Soft added "The Slam Editor has all the layout manipulation capabilities that are required to efficiently

create new library cells or modify existing cells. Slam has also been designed to handle very large designs, much more effectively than the competition. The yield of these large designs can benefit greatly from the design for yield methodology."

Further information on PEYE-CAA and Predictions Software is available from;

Gerard Allan,

Predictions Software Ltd

Edinburgh Technology Transfer Centre

The Kings Buildings

Mayfield Road

Edinburgh, EH9 3JL

United Kingdom

Gerard.Allan@icyield.com

Tel +44 131 472 4725.

http://www.icyield.com

Further information on Slam and Stabie-Soft is available from;

Mike Stabenfeldt,

Stabie-Soft

5828 Gentle Breeze Terrace

Austin, TX 78731

USA

stabie@stabie-soft.com

Phone: (512) 825-8914

http://www.stabie-soft.com

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