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Aptina Picks Silicon Frontline’s Post-Layout Verification EDA Software to Eliminate Costly Prototype Builds, Improve Manufacturing Quality

Silicon Frontline Technology, Inc. (SFT), an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company in the post-layout verification market, announced today that Aptina, the world’s foremost image sensor provider, is using Silicon Frontline’s F3D (Fast 3D) software for post-layout verification and for fast 3D extraction to improve Aptina’s image sensor design accuracy and manufacturing quality.

By using Silicon Frontline’s F3D software, Aptina’s designers are resolving a range of issues including: floating diffusion (sense node) capacitance, inter-pixel coupling, color-filter effects, impact of metal fill and signal channel mismatch without having to build costly prototypes.

With F3D, Aptina designs are released up to 4 months earlier, providing significant cost reduction and an advantageous market position.

“We are focused on being the world’s best image sensor provider,” said Roger Panicacci, VP of Product Development at Aptina. “In order to maintain our position we constantly look for design software that will improve our nanometer and A/MS design’s accuracy. Silicon Frontline’s F3D fits that bill. With it, we are able to eliminate design steps, like building prototypes to measure the accuracy and capacitance before wafer fabrication.”

“We are proud to add Aptina, an innovative leader in CMOS image sensor technology and manufacturing quality, to our list of customers,” said Yuri Feinberg, CEO, Silicon Frontline. “They are among the quality-focused customers that have picked us to improve their design productivity and manufacturing quality.”

Silicon Frontline’s Post-Layout Verification Software with Guaranteed Accuracy

Silicon Frontline’s post-layout verification software guarantees accuracy and high performance by using rigorous 3D technology to extract parasitics. Users have the option to specify the level of accuracy desired, net by net, at the block level or with regular expressions. By guaranteeing accuracy, Silicon Frontline is ensuring the resulting parasitics are correct within the user-specified accuracy.

About Aptina

Aptina is a global provider of CMOS image sensor solutions with a growing portfolio of products that can be found in all of the leading mobile phone and notebook computer brands. Aptina also offers a wide range of products for digital and video cameras, surveillance, medical, automotive and industrial applications, video conferencing, barcode scanners, toys and gaming. Aptina continually drives innovation in the market as seen with the introduction of the first 10MP CMOS image sensor for point-and-shoot cameras (MT9J003), and the industry’s first 5MP SOC with ¼” format (MT9P111).

About Silicon Frontline

Silicon Frontline Technology provides the only electrical layout verification solution that addresses the most critical yet difficult to solve performance and reliability challenges in today’s electronic designs. Our products enable engineers to improve efficiency and ensure robustness of their designs.

Over 70 electronic companies rely on Silicon Frontline products and services for their silicon success. Silicon Frontline products are widely adopted by IDMs and foundries, including 12 of the top 25 semiconductor companies and have been used in thousands of designs.

Silicon Frontline was founded in 2007 by former members of Nassda, Epic Design, and Quad Design. Our team brings 300+ years of computational geometry, complex numerical methods, and semiconductor material expertise. We are primarily funded by angel investors and iD Ventures.

Silicon Frontline

4030 Moorpark Avenue, Suite 249
San Jose, CA 95117
Tel: 408-963-6916
[email protected]

© 2022, Silicon Frontline Technology.

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