SMIC Employs Mentor Graphics Calibre PERC for Reliability Verification of Multi-Power Domain SoCs

WILSONVILLE, Ore. & SHANGHAI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ:MENT) and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation ("SMIC") (NYSE:SMI) (SEHK:0981) today announced that SMIC is using the Calibre® PERC circuit reliability verification solution as part of its latest electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection design methodology. SMIC’s approach helps ensure whole chip ESD protection for its customers’ large, complex SoCs, including all I/Os, embedded IP blocks from SMIC or third-party sources, and eFuse embedded memory. SMIC adopted the Calibre PERC solution because it provides the unique ability to automatically combine schematic (netlist) and physical layout criteria and measurements to perform advanced reliability checks that until now were primarily done manually.