{"id":9,"date":"2014-03-26T11:41:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T03:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anaglobe.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2017-03-09T11:15:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T03:15:27","slug":"thunder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anaglobe.com\/chinese\/products\/thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Brochure Download: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anaglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Thunder_datasheet_2016Q1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">English\u00a0Version<\/a>\u00a0, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anaglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Thunder_datasheet_2016Q1-%E7%B0%A1%E4%B8%AD.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Simplified Chinese Version<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>OVERVIEW<\/h3>\n<p>Thunder<sup>TM<\/sup> is a unique tape-out level layout editor with built-in XOR, density and Boolean engine. It seamlessly combines an efficient database, powerful analysis engine with intuitive GUI. It handles huge layout data in excess of 500+GB of different formats, including GDS, OASIS, LEF\/DEF, and OpenAccess, and performs complex geometrical operations accurately in a fast and robust manner. It provides C++\/TCL\/PYTHON\/PERL interface for software developers to develop their own applications.<\/p>\n<h3>HIGHLIGHTS<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-680\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anaglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/thunder-01.jpg\" alt=\"thunder-01\" width=\"400\" height=\"248\" \/>Full-blown tape-out level layout editor<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Fastest XOR (LVL) comparison, highlight and synchronized display<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Fastest density map\/checking<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Flexible IP merge, rename by layout comparison<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Interactive dummy fill patch generation<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Intuitive Boolean operations<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Powerful net tracing, fast DRC\/LVS\/defect result loading\/browsing, and 3D layout view for short-locator<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Supports Perl\/Python\/TCL scripting languages<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>MAJOR FEATURES<\/h3>\n<p>Thunder<sup>TM<\/sup> has been tailored to help developing customized solutions in terms of performance and ease of use. AnaGlobe keeps expanding the state-of-the-art features into Thunder<sup>TM<\/sup>. Thunder<sup>TM<\/sup> is architected to process very large size of IC\/SOC with smallest DB at any technology node in the least amount of time.<\/p>\n<h4>FASTEST LVL COMPARISON<\/h4>\n<p>Thunder<sup>TM<\/sup> provides fastest LVL comparison, linear to data size, with GUI visualization to quickly identify differences of two designs. Customer benchmarks show that Thunder<sup>TM<\/sup> LVL requires minimum runtime memory usage and completes the comparison even for industry\u2019s biggest chips. (<em>Fig-1<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-681\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anaglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/thunder-02.jpg\" alt=\"thunder-02\" width=\"400\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Fig-1. Interactive Layout Comparison<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>TAPE-OUT LEVEL LAYOUT EDITING<\/h4>\n<p>Thunder<sup>TM<\/sup> enables user to browse\/edit several\u00a0hundred gigabytes GDS\/OASIS. The intuitive GUI is as\u00a0friendly as popular layout editors. It provides\u00a0advanced layout editing features, such as Smart\u00a0Flatten and snapping to DRC marker, ideal for DRC\u00a0bug fix.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOOLEAN OPERATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thunder<sup>TM<\/sup> provides intuitive multiple-Boolean expression to generate shapes on original design directly.<\/p>\n<h4>DENSITY MAP GENERATION &amp; CHECKING<\/h4>\n<p>Thunder<sup>TM<\/sup> provides fastest interactive density map generation and violation checking with GUI visualization. It provides density variation checking, which is critical for advanced technology node. (<em>Fig-2<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anaglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/thunder-03-600x225.jpg\" alt=\"thunder-03\" width=\"600\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Fig-2. Interactive Density Checkin<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>IP MERGE AUTOMATION<\/h4>\n<p>Thunder<sup>TM<\/sup> provides system integration for IP from\u00a0GDS\/LEF\/DEF files with great flexibility such as\u00a0standard cell replacement, don\u2019t-change list, etc. It\u00a0performs layout comparison during renaming, which\u00a0eliminate unnecessary renaming. It supports\u00a0hierarchical IP merge with incremental change. It\u00a0generates a summary of missing cells, renamed cells,\u00a0identical cells, and cross-reference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FAILURE ANALYSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thunder<sup>TM<\/sup> provides a series of functionality to assist the tedious defect inspection job, such as KLA result viewing, image overlay and extraction, pattern grouping and matching, voltage contrast analysis, FinFET 3D view, cross-section, etc.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(<em>Fig-3)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-684\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anaglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/thunder-04.jpg\" alt=\"thunder-04\" width=\"400\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Fig-3. Failure Analysis Related Functionality<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>PHYSICAL NET TRACER<\/h4>\n<p>Thunder<sup>TM<\/sup> powerful net tracer provides both tracing and find short, with routing highlight and 3D display visualization. It supports both location based and pin text based tracing. Other debugging functions such as stop layer, net switching detection, and power\/ground short detection. (<em>Fig-4<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-685\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anaglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/thunder-05.jpg\" alt=\"thunder-05\" width=\"400\" height=\"308\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Fig-4. Physical Net Tracer &amp; Short Locator<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>HUGE CAPACITY DRC\/LVS\/DEFECT EXPLORER<\/h4>\n<p>Thunder<sup>TM<\/sup> provides seamless integration with 3<sup>rd<\/sup> party layout verification and wafer inspection tools. It helps the user to navigate and debug DRC\/LVS errors and defects efficiently (opens 5G+ DRC results in 7 minutes). \u00a0It also supports Calibre short isolation result with 3D display and cross probing. (<em>Fig-5)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-686\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anaglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/thunder-06.jpg\" alt=\"thunder-06\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Fig-5. DRC Result Viewer<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>DUMMY FILL PATCHING<\/h4>\n<p>Thunder<sup>TM<\/sup> can fill dummy patterns to low density area interactively with target percentage. It creates vertical\/horizontal patterns with offset. It can also take Calibre DRC marker as the target area. (<em>Fig-6<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-687\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anaglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/thunder-07.jpg\" alt=\"thunder-07\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Fig-6. Interactive Dummy Fill Patching<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>HIGHLIGHT MISSING VIAS ON POWER\/GROUND NETS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To eliminate IR-Drop effect, Thunder<sup>TM<\/sup> can perform a quick analysis on power\/ground nets to highlight areas with missing vias and fix them by inserting vias.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-688\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anaglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/thunder-08.jpg\" alt=\"thunder-08\" width=\"400\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Fig-7. 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