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Company Overview
Ciranova’s objective is to deliver a quantum productivity advance in custom IC physical design for nanometer silicon geometries. Ciranova™ customers get more complex, higher-performance analog, mixed-signal and RF ICs to market sooner and at lower cost than their competitors — especially at 65nm and below.
Analog, mixed-signal and RF circuits are a major differentiator and a major design challenge in modern SoC-based electronics. Both the circuit design and the complexity of the underlying silicon have changed dramatically; yet the physical design — schematic, layout editing, and extensive hand manipulation of low-level geometry — is fundamentally the same as it was in the early 1990’s.
Ciranova changes this. Our mission is not to build new schematic or layout editors, but to add automation at both the PCell and circuit levels that works with your existing flow to dramatically reduce your design effort. Our core elements are:
- Open, interoperable and based on industry standards like OpenAccess
- Automate construction of DRC-correct geometry even in the presence of extremely complex design rules
- Very fast run times, and easy to learn and use; don’t replace designers, instead give them the tools needed to translate design intent into layout quickly
- Get layout parasitics early
- Seamless integration into existing design flows
- Very fast R&D response to customers
Our PyCells™ are interoperable, DRC-correct, and use state-of-the-art object-oriented software technology to dramatically reduce the effort needed to create and maintain PCells, especially at 65nm and below. PDK groups creating PyCells build design kits with much less effort, and respond radically faster to their circuit designer customers, than do traditional PCell users.
Our Helix™ device-level placement software slashes physical design time, lets design teams optimize their floorplans for performance and die area, and lets them see parasitics at the beginning of layout instead of the end.
Company
Ciranova was founded by a team of analog IC designers and EDA software engineers, and is backed by leading venture investors and EDA companies. Our customers are leading-edge IDM’s and fabless semiconductor companies engaged in dense integration of complex custom functionality into SoC’s.