Michael Buehler-Garcia and Riko Radojcic
PDF Solutions

The industry-leading technologies and services from PDF Solutions can help semiconductor companies achieve improved profitability. It does this by enabling them to create IC designs that are more easily manufactured, and manufacturing processes that are more capable. As the semiconductor industry moves into nanometer processes, the role of designers in yield-driven profitability becomes critical. To aide designers, PDF is bringing process-aware products and IP solutions to the DFM realm. The initial product, pDfx, is an environment for optimizing logic designs. New pDfx and PDF's other planned offerings for designers rely on OpenAccess technology. These products are developed for compatibility with all major design flows, making OpenAccess the database of choice for these applications.