Introduction

NanoYield™ is an advanced design-for-yield platform that, integrates  the key components from a single vendor: (1) advanced device modeling, (2) a parallel SPICE simulation engine and (3) hardware-validated statistical analysis algorithms.

NanoYield significantly increases statistical circuit analysis speeds with its superior parallelization technology and highly efficient and accurate statistical algorithms. This enables designers to run yield predication as well as yield-PPA (power, performance and area) trade-off for memory, digital and analog circuits. Primarius offers an integrated GUI-based DFY (design for yield) environment – Nano Design Environment (NDE) - to assist designers in running variation analysis, predict yield, in addition to guiding their designs for yield and PPA.

Key Benefits

Integration: Advanced modeling, built-in SPICE engine and high efficient statistical algorithms

Superior speed: Fast PVT (process, voltage, and temperature)-3-20X; fast Monte Carlo - 10-100X+; advanced High Sigma-10³-10⁵X+

Scalable parallelization:  Near-linear scaling on both private farm or public clouds

High accuracy: Silicon validation at 14nm, 7nm & 5nm

Simplified licensing:  economic parallelization licensing model

Applications

4-7σ yield analysis for memory and standard cell designs

Fast Monte Carlo analysis for analog and digital block designs

Fast PVT analysis for analog and digital block designs

Specifications

Supports Hspice and Spectre netlist formats

SPICE analysis features (same as NanoSpice)

SPICE model support (same as NanoSpice)

PVT and fast PVT analysis

Monte Carlo analysis

High Sigma analysis (4-7σ+): 20K+ variables

System High Sigma analysis for full chip yield analysis

Rich yield prediction and statistical circuit analysis functions, e.g., sensitivity analysis, parameter sweeping, etc.

Powerful GUI-based circuit analysis features through Nano Design Environment

Platform Support

64bit Redhat Enterprise V5.x, V6.x, V7.x, V8.x ;

64bit CentOS V5.x, V6.x, V7.x, V8.x

Multi-core server or computer farm

Cloud