see ivan pe i . silvaco inc. type private company industry software & programming founded 1984 founder ivan pesic headquarters santa clara california key people iliya pesic chairman david dutton ceo website www.silvaco.com simucad design automation inc. type private company industry software & programming founded 1981 2004 headquarters santa clara california website www.silvaco.com silvaco inc. is a privately owned provider of electronic design automation eda software 1 and tcad process and device simulation software . 2 silvaco was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in santa clara california and in 2006 the company had about 250 employees worldwide . silvaco provides analog semiconductor process device and design automation solutions in cmos bipolar sige and compound technologies . customers include leading fabless semiconductor companies integrated semiconductor manufacturers foundries and universities worldwide . contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 tcad products 2.2 eda products 2.3 process design kits pdks 3 litigation 4 references history edit founded by dr ivan pesic september 13 1951 resnik montenegro october 20 2012 japan 3 4 in 1984 the company is privately held and internally funded . it is headquartered in santa clara california with eight offices worldwide including us offices in austin texas north chelmsford massachusetts and phoenix arizona . in 2003 silvaco acquired eda pioneer simucad for its brand name as well as for its silos and hyperfault simulators . simucad was one of the oldest companies in the ic design industry . 5 6 the original simucad was formed in 1981 with pioneering business in verilog simulation . it was acquired by hhb systems which in its turn was acquired by daisy systems in 1980s and in the early 1990s simucad was spun off as a management buyout . after purchasing simucad in 2003 silvaco re launched the brand by spinning out its eda product line in 2006 under the simucad name . 5 7 simucad acquired ownership all of silvaco s simulation and cad products and intellectual property most notably the smartspice circuit simulator . 8 as of march 1 2010 simucad design automation and silvaco data systems were merged back together forming silvaco inc. in 2012 david halliday 3 was appointed ceo after ivan pesic the company founder died from cancer . david halliday joined silvaco in 1992 and prior to his appointment as ceo he was the company coo . david also held the office of vice president of engineering for much of his tenure at silvaco . in 2015 silvaco announced a new ceo david dutton . citation needed the company also announced its entry into the power integrity signoff market via the acquisition of invarian . citation needed products edit silvaco delivers eda and stanford based tcad products with support and engineering services to provide semiconductor process and device simulation solutions . worldwide customers include leading foundries fabless semiconductor companies integrated semiconductor manufacturers universities and semiconductor designers . tcad products edit process simulation victory process is a 3d process simulator . it includes a process flow core simulator and three advanced simulation modules monte carlo implant advanced diffusion and oxidation and physical etch and deposit . victory cell is a 3d process simulator for large structures . it is suitable for cmos image sensors tft arrays power devices and other large geometry structures . athena is a group of process simulation products that enables process and integration engineers to develop and optimize semiconductor manufacturing processes . athena provides a platform for simulating ion implantation diffusion etching deposition lithography oxidation and silicidation of semiconductor materials . it replaces costly wafer experiments with simulations . 9 athena 1d 1d process simulator is a 1d mode of operation of the industry standard athena 2d process simulator . device simulation victory device is a general purpose 3d device simulator using a tetrahedral meshing engine for fast and accurate simulation of complex 3d geometries . atlas is a group of device simulation products enables device technology engineers to simulate the electrical optical and thermal behavior of semiconductor devices . it provides a physics based modular and extensible platform to analyze dc ac and time domain responses for all semiconductor based technologies in 2 and 3 dimensions . stress simulation victory stress is a generic 3d stress simulator designed to calculate stresses and mobility enhancement factors for any 3d structure using comprehensive material stress models . other tools interactive tools a suite of pre and post processing tools that provide interactive gui based pre and post processing services to silvaco s 1d 2d and 3d tcad simulators . virtual wafer fab or vwf is a group of tcad products that automate and emulate physical wafer manufacturing . these tools facilitate the input execution run time optimization and results processing of tcad simulations into a flow managed through a common database . it can be used for such tasks as designing more efficient solar cells for use in space . 10 eda products edit the company supplies integrated eda software in the areas of analog mixed signal rf custom ic cad interconnect modeling and digital cad . analog mixed signal rf products utmost iii spice modeling software generates spice models for analog digital mixed signal and rf applications . utmost iv optimization module provides a database driven environment for the generation of spice models and macro models for analog mixed signal and rf applications . spayn meaning statistical parameter and yield analysis is a statistical modeling tool for analyzing variances from model parameter extraction sequences electrical test routines and circuit test measurements . gateway is a schematic editor . it is a front end for silvaco s analog mixed signal rf ic design platform and is integrated with the company s circuit simulation layout drc lvs lpe and parasitic extraction tools . smartspice is an analog circuit simulator used in the design of analog circuits and analog mixed signal circuits . it can analyze critical nets and characterize cell libraries . smartspice rf is a harmonic balance based rf simulator . it provides a set of steady state large signal analyses and measurements to design ghz range rf ics driven with multi tone sources . harmony is an analog and mixed signal circuit simulator . it simulates circuitry expressed in verilog spice verilog a and verilog ams and dynamically links in the capabilities of the smartspice circuit simulator and silos verilog simulator at run time . verilog a is a language for smartspice . compiled or interpreted verilog a language combined with smartspice provides designers with an environment for the design and verification of analog and mixed signal circuits . custom ic cad expert is a layout editor . it offers layout viewing editing features and scripting for automation with parameterized cells pcells . guardian is a suite of drc lvs lpe physical verification products . they provide verification of analog mixed signal and rf ic designs perform design rule checks drc layout vs. schematic lvs comparisons and layout parameter extractions lpe . hipex is a set of full chip parasitic extraction products . they perform extraction of parasitic capacitors and resistors from hierarchical layouts into hierarchical transistor level netlists using nanometer process technology . interconnect modeling quest is a high frequency parasitic extractor . it calculates 3d frequency dependent inductance resistance capacitance and capacitive loss for any multi port network for rf spice analysis . clever is a physics based parasitic extractor . it uses 3d field solvers to convert the mask data of a cell and relevant process information into a spice netlist . this process removes inaccuracies resulting from traditional rule based parasitic extractors . stellar is a core parasitic extractor . it fills the circuit size gap between typical small cell solvers and full chip extractors . exact is a full chip lpe rule file generator digital cad silos is an ieee 1364 2001 compliant verilog simulator . it offers debugging features in a design environment for fpga pld asic and custom digital designs . hyperfault is an ieee 1364 2001 compliant mixed level fault simulator that analyses test vectors ability to detect faults . accucell is a characterization and modeling tool that characterizes and validates standard cell libraries i os and custom cells . accucore provides transistor and gate level full chip sta with automatic block characterization . catalyst ad is a spice netlist to verilog gates converter catalyst da is a verilog netlist to spice netlist converter spider provides a place and route design flow process design kits pdks edit silvaco offers process design kits pdks for analog mixed signal and rf design teams . these are collections of verified data files that are used by a set of custom ic design eda tools to provide a design flow . such data files include schematic symbols parameterized cells pcells drc lvs runsets parasitic extraction runsets and scripts to automate the generation and verification of design data . foundry process specific models symbols and rule decks are integrated and tested with silvaco custom ic design tools and pcells to create an ams rf design environment . litigation edit silvaco has been involved in litigation against circuit semantics inc. csi 11 technology modeling associates metasoftware and avanti corporation for theft of trade secrets . silvaco won a 20 million judgment from avanti just prior to the latter company s acquisition by synopsys . 12 in 2008 legal action by silvaco against cypress semiconductor inc. led the california court of appeal to make a ruling clarifying when the statute of limitations for theft of trade secrets begins . the ruling stated that statute of limitations on a cause of action for misappropriation begins to run when the plaintiff has any reason to suspect that the third party knows or reasonably should know that the information is a trade secret . 13 14 15 in silvaco data systems v. intel corp. silvaco sued intel for misappropriation of trade secrets deriving from the csi case but ultimately lost in both the trial and appellate courts . references edit goering richard 2004 06 07 . mixed signal simulation tool supports linux . ee times . retrieved 2010 04 13 . valco george . getting started with the silvaco tcad software for ee637 and ee734 . retrieved 2010 04 13 . a b silvaco founder and ceo dr ivan pesic succumbs to cancer in memory of ivan pesic of silvaco 1951 2012 john cooley deepchip esnug 510 item 5 a b simucad spins out of silvaco with eye toward ipo michael santarini 09 january 2006 electronics weekly richard goering 2003 10 10 . silvaco buys eda pioneer simucad . ee times . retrieved 2010 02 25 . eetimes.com simucad spins out from silvaco plans ipo in 06 elpida standardizes on simucad s smartspice analog circuit simulator . reuters . 2008 01 23 . retrieved 2009 03 04 . fuller dr. lynn 2010 03 10 . 2d process modeling with silvaco athena pdf . retrieved 2010 04 13 . mccloy darin j. 1999 . high efficiency solar cells a model in silvaco spiral bound . isbn 978 1 4235 4151 6 . goering richard 2002 11 06 . silvaco vs. csi trade secrets case headed to trial . ee times . retrieved 2010 04 13 . santarini mike 2004 05 25 . silvaco lawsuits cloud circuit semantics future . ee times . retrieved 2010 04 13 . stickel amy i. 2008 08 01 . court clarifies statute of limitations for trade secrets . insidecounsel . retrieved 2010 04 13 . effective trade secret protection speed is of the essence . jackson lewis llp . 2008 06 16 . archived from the original on july 13 2011 . retrieved 2010 04 13 . firm weintraub 2009 01 30 . third party trade secret misappropriation and the statute of limitations . retrieved 2010 04 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