DIFFERENTIATORS > Highest Performance, Capacity and Pinpoint Accuracy
Accurate analysis of today’s complex electronic designs with older generation field-solver based tools can be a time-consuming process with severe limitations in the number of signal and power and ground nets that can be analyzed simultaneously.
Optimal’s solutions are frequently up to 2-3X faster than competitive solutions and have the capacity to analyze more structures simultaneously, while maintaining pinpoint accuracy.
DIFFERENTIATORS > Best Ease of Use
Traditionally, 3D signal and power integrity tools have been very difficult to learn and use, and confined to use by experts in EM analysis. As the need for these tools spreads rapidly to the mainstream, this is a major problem.
Optimal solutions have been designed from the start with ease-of-use in mind to allow mainstream engineers to take advantage of our powerful technology. All Optimal tools share a common user interface, CAD integrations and post processors/utilities significantly easing the transition from one tool to another.
Our intuitive GUI makes it extremely fast for new users to come up to speed and improves your overall cycle time.
DIFFERENTIATORS > Seamless Integration in Your Design Flow
With most traditional analysis solutions, getting from your CAD system to the analysis environment can be a complex, time consuming and error prone process. Days or even weeks can be wasted just on tedious translations.
Optimal’s CAD integrations are push-button and flexible, allowing you to use the CAD system of your choice and making translations seamless and error-free, shrinking translation times to minutes or hours.
Optimal also supports a comprehensive set of outputs and has an open circuit simulation philosophy, allowing you to use the simulation tools that YOU choose.
Our partnerships with other industry leaders ensure that integrations are jointly qualified and continuously improved.
DIFFERENTIATORS > Embedded in Cadence Allegro Platform
In 2003, Optimal and Cadence Design Systems formed a strategic relationship that results in an extremely tightly integrated solution of our 3D signal and power integrity solutions with the Cadence Allegro Platform design and analysis flow. In fact, Cadence OEMs and embeds Optimal’s PakSi-E technology in it’s advanced packaging and signal integrity solutions as shown below.
Optimal is one of only eight companies that is an Emerging Solutions Member, the highest level in Cadence’s Connections Program.
As Cadence’s 3D signal and power integrity ‘partner of choice’, we are committed to maintaining the closest possible integration to ensure the best overall cycle time and performance for our mutual customers.
DIFFERENTIATORS > Endorsed in TSMC Reference Flow 5.0 & 6.0
Optimal is one of only three small EDA companies certified by TSMC in their Reference Flows 5.0 and 6.0, which are recommended tool flows and methodologies for customers designing chips at 130 and 65 nanometer process nodes. Optimal’s role in the reference flow is to enable Chip-Package co-design.
In addition to power management
and DFM, Reference Flow 6.0 provides a wide range of enhancements including…integrated chip-and-package design… Through extensive collaboration with Apache, Atrenta, Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Optimal and
Synopsys, TSMC has anticipated pressing design challenges & developed timely services to address them.
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