Liberty

Cadence Design Systems has launched an analog simulation tool designed to speed up the characterization of mixed-signal macros that can then be used to create the Liberty representations needed for full-chip signoff.

ARM has launched a pair of tools designed to improve the density and performance of finFET designs that use the company's physical libraries.

The Liberty library format has been extended to cope with the most common forms of on-chip variation analysis in use today on nanometer processes.