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Tower Semiconductor & Synopsys
Where Analog and Value Meet
Collaborating to Provide Value Analog Semiconductor Solutions
Tower Semiconductor and Synopsys collaborate to provide optimized analog design manufacturing solutions to achieve your design success. For over three decades, Tower Semiconductor has continuously developed and provided high value analog semiconductor solutions. Through its vast knowledge of market needs, Tower offers advanced analog technologies and manufacturing solutions for automotive, infrastructure, consumer, medical, industrial and aerospace and defense, among others. Synopsys, with its decades long experience in EDA and association with the IC design community, has an industry leading offering of design tools. Together, Tower and Synopsys provide fast and accurate design solutions for complex designs – like power management, CIS, RF, silicon photonics and more.
Key Benefits
Comprehensive Library & Technology Files
Using SiliconSmart characterization features enable high confidence in first-time design success
Co-Developed Custom Compiler iPDKs
Offering custom design teams a feature-rich analog design platform that minimizes time-to-market
One-Stop Shop for Silicon Photonics
Tower’s PH18 process & Synopsys’ OptoCompiler design platform for simulation and layout synthesisAreas of Collaboration
Synopsys' Optimized Design Environment for Tower Processes
Synopsys and Tower collaborate to deliver an optimized design environment for Tower process technology based on Synopsys' advanced design tools. Using the IPL iPDK-based design kit, Tower provides iPDKs for the Synopsys Custom Compiler analog design environment. By teaming together, we are delivering a production-proven design solution that give designers a reliable path to silicon for their challenging SoCs.
Photonic Solutions
Tower’s PH18 silicon photonics process is a dedicated and flexible high volume silicon photonics platform for high-speed optical communications, high-performance computing, and emerging innovative sensor applications. The Synopsys unified electro-optical co-design solution supports the process design kits (PDK) offered by Tower for the various process options. Synopsys supports Tower customers with an end-to-end seamless design flow that includes schematic capture and layout synthesis with Synopsys OptoCompiler™, simulation with Synopsys OptSim™, and design rule checking (DRC) and layout versus schematic (LVS) with Synopsys IC Validator™. The flow also supports custom design with Synopsys’ Photonic Device Compiler.