Twenty-one Silvaco customers, from SiC power device makers to display, memory and IP design teams, tell you in their own words which tools and IP they use and why.
Pick your market or the Silvaco product you’re evaluating to hear from the peers closest to your decision.
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iDEAL Semiconductor
“…we were able to convert a theoretical idea into actual working material…”
In order to make a leap forward in power semiconductor efficiency, we required a partner that could enable a next-generation silicon power technology platform. By collaborating with the Silvaco technical team and utilizing its Victory TCAD Solution, we were able to convert a theoretical idea into actual working material, enabling us to demonstrate a new leading class of Power Semiconductors. The combination of advanced feature set, the depth of technical capabilities and usability of Victory TCAD Solution enables us to deliver highly differentiated products while meeting aggressive schedules and requirements.
David Jauregui, CTO and Co-founder, iDEAL Semiconductor
“We took advantage of Silvaco’s custom capabilities…”
As an IP provider, the ability to efficiently port designs to the latest advanced processes and adapt to changing process requirements is essential. We took advantage of Silvaco’s custom capabilities, including Expert’s flexible scripting and are continuing to push the next generation process technology with upcoming designs using Silvaco’s products.
Randy Caplan, CEO and Co-founder, Silicon Creations
“Silvaco’s AI and digital twin solution is enabling us to accelerate our groundbreaking advancements in memory and storage.”
Micron is excited to strengthen our partnership with Silvaco. Silvaco’s AI and digital twin solution is enabling us to accelerate our groundbreaking advancements in memory and storage.
Dr. Gurtej Sandhu, Principal Fellow and Vice President, Micron Technology
“To develop the latest generation of our displays and sensor products, we partnered with Silvaco to help us innovate and meet our demanding requirements.”
Silvaco’s tools and expertise in display technology helps us create cutting-edge products and technologies, spanning automotive applications, transparent displays, wearable devices, virtual reality headsets, and next-generation OLED, among numerous other applications.
Hirokazu Morimoto, General Manager, Japan Display, Inc.
“Silvaco’s SmartSpice solution will be an invaluable resource for the startups…”
Silvaco’s SmartSpice solution will be an invaluable resource for the startups in our incubator program. As we continue to support the development of next-generation MCU technologies, having access to advanced circuit simulation tools is essential. This partnership with Silvaco will help our startups accelerate their development cycles and bring innovative products to market more efficiently.
Liang-Chia Cheng, Division Director of ITRI’s Electronic and Optoelectronic System Research, ITRI
“…we had full confidence in Mixel’s capabilities and reliability…”
We needed a MIPI IP provider that could support our strict automotive requirements to further our radar portfolio and enable efficient and scalable ADAS architecture solutions. Through our long-standing partnership with Mixel and their extensive automotive experience, we had full confidence in Mixel’s capabilities and reliability. We are looking forward to our continued collaboration.
Peter Gulden, EVP Radar Systems and Software, indie
“Silvaco’s solutions are an integral part of our design flow…”
Silvaco’s solutions are an integral part of our design flow, enabling us to explore complex device physics and optimize our SiC technologies. The combination of Victory Device, Gateway, and SmartSpice provides us with a comprehensive solution that bridges the gap between process development and circuit design, allowing us to deliver superior silicon carbide power solutions to our customers.
“Silvaco’s Victory TCAD 3D simulation solution is invaluable in enabling the design of custom power semiconductor devices.”
Silvaco’s Victory TCAD 3D simulation solution is invaluable in enabling the design of custom power semiconductor devices, as well as the process technology required to fabricate them. The Victory TCAD 3D simulation solution is fast, easy to use, and accurate. Calibration of the process flow was efficient and straightforward as the out-of-the-box model parameters produced excellent results. Using Silvaco’s Victory TCAD has enabled the development of custom power devices from concept through to production.
“The integration of Silvaco’s end-to-end DTCO platform provides a unified environment to simulate, characterize, and optimize power devices, from process through circuit.”
The integration of Silvaco’s end-to-end DTCO platform provides a unified environment to simulate, characterize, and optimize power devices, from process through circuit. This capability allows us to better correlate fabrication process variations with device and circuit performance, enabling the engineering of more robust and efficient solutions.
“Silvaco’s Victory TCAD platform gives us the ability to precisely model GaN device behavior under real-world conditions.”
Silvaco’s Victory TCAD platform gives us the ability to precisely model GaN device behavior under real-world conditions. This level of insight is critical for achieving the performance and reliability targets demanded by next-generation RF and power applications.
“By using Silvaco’s advanced TCAD solutions, our teams can explore, understand, and optimize the performance of GaN devices with greater depth and efficiency.”
By using Silvaco’s advanced TCAD solutions, our teams can explore, understand, and optimize the performance of GaN devices with greater depth and efficiency. Especially during our current development of high voltage lateral and vertical GaN devices based on engineering substrates, like Qromis® Substrate Technology, we see many physical effects that require accurately calibrated process and device models.
Michael Mensing, Ph.D., Head of the Advanced Devices Group, Fraunhofer ISIT
“…Jivaro Pro is consistently reducing post-layout SPICE simulation run times while maintaining accuracy, with at least a 5X improvement…”
The introduction of Jivaro Pro is consistently reducing post-layout SPICE simulation run times while maintaining accuracy, with at least a 5X improvement observed at the 40nm and 55nm nodes. We expect to see a substantial improvement in engineering productivity as post-layout simulation times have been significantly reduced for many blocks, accelerating our overall timeline.
Yasuyuki Hattori, Senior Manager of IC Engineering, Alps Alpine Co., Ltd
“Silvaco’s product leadership, service, and technical support were instrumental in our decision…”
The adoption of Silvaco’s Victory TCAD tools marks a significant step forward for ProMOS in developing next-gen photonic devices. Silvaco’s product leadership, service, and technical support were instrumental in our decision to select Silvaco for our photonic device development, helping us accelerate the pace of our innovation.
“Silvaco’s industry-proven FlexCAN IP efficiently supports our pursuit of innovation and excellence.”
We are dedicated in automotive ASIC solutions to address the increasing market needs, focusing on delivering high-performance, and reliable networking capabilities for next-generation vehicles. Silvaco’s industry-proven FlexCAN IP efficiently supports our pursuit of innovation and excellence.
“…a full simulation on one of our blocks would run 20+ days. After using Jivaro Pro this runtime was reduced to 6 days…”
eTopus provides ultra-high speed mixed-signal semiconductor IP for high-performance computing and data center applications. In our current FinFET design flow we were experiencing longer than expected post layout SPICE simulation runtimes, especially on the larger blocks where full simulations can run for several weeks.
We approached Silvaco with this issue and were introduced to their Jivaro Pro parasitic netlist reduction tool. We were able to easily ramp up and integrate Jivaro Pro as part of our existing design flow.
After running Jivaro Pro, we were able to significantly reduce our post-layout simulation runtime while maintaining accuracy. As an example, a full simulation on one of our blocks would run 20+ days. After using Jivaro Pro this runtime was reduced to 6 days while maintaining the designer’s accuracy requirements. This 2–3X speedup saved us weeks of simulation time and substantially increased our engineering productivity which helps ensure our time to market goals.
One block’s full post-layout simulation, 20+ days down to 6, in a FinFET flow
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SemiQ
“…unique tool features specifically tailored for power devices design…”
SemiQ is a leading provider of SiC Power devices, modules, and epitaxial wafers. To support our growing needs in power device design and accelerate the development of our next generation of devices, we evaluated Silvaco’s Victory TCAD solution for process and device simulation. With Silvaco’s prompt and expert technical support, and unique tool features specifically tailored for power devices design, we were able to quickly adopt new capabilities, such as oxidation simulation, to improve our understanding of next generation devices. As a result, we have made a multi-year commitment to their TCAD solution and replaced our existing tools.
“We chose Silvaco for their complete extraction solution for TFT sensors…”
Trixell builds displays for X-ray imaging, and we have demanding performance-driven feature and manufacturing requirements. We chose Silvaco for their complete extraction solution for TFT sensors, which is reliable, consistent, and well-supported. Our prior toolset was a collection of point tools that did not meet our requirements for consistent analysis and product support. The technical team at Silvaco has been excellent and quickly brought up our new analysis flow.
“Silvaco’s TCAD Solution is enabling us to lead advances in the infrared detector market…”
Silvaco’s TCAD Solution is enabling us to lead advances on the infrared detector market by helping us fine-tune our designs and technologies to meet customers’ needs. We can very rapidly carry out studies to optimize detector performance using production-proven modeling solutions. These advantages, plus shorter exploratory research and product development cycles, will position LYNRED to bring new best-in-class infrared detectors to the market.
“The Victory TCAD solution enables us to quickly analyze different pixel structures.”
We have been a long-term customer of the Silvaco TCAD solution due to its comprehensive flow for image sensor design and analysis. The Victory TCAD solution enables us to quickly analyze different pixel structures. The impact of different geometries can be easily explored in order to identify the key parameters that affect performance. Thus, multiple variants can be effectively evaluated before production, allowing quicker convergence on the final design and saving fabrication costs and development time.
Ana González Márquez, Director of Technology & Product Development, Teledyne E2V
“We decided to use SmartSpice Pro in order to be able to release high functionality, high value-added optical sensors in a short period of time…”
We decided to use SmartSpice Pro in order to be able to release high functionality, high value-added optical sensors in a short period of time. As a result, we have been able to further improve both design efficiency and design quality. In the face of a society undergoing major changes, there is a demand for new optical sensor proposals. We are excited about accelerating development aimed at that.
Hiroyuki Fukui, IC Design Division Senior Manager, KODENSHI CORP.
“Due to Silvaco’s product lineup and technical support, we can look forward to a high total performance for future OLED design and development…”
In the design and development of high-quality liquid crystal displays pursued by Sharp Display Devices Company, a fast and highly accurate simulation environment is essential. Due to Silvaco’s product lineup and technical support, we can look forward to a high total performance for future OLED design and development as well.
Noboru Matsuda, Deputy General Manager, Sharp Display Device Company
Micron Technology, Japan Display, Vicor, SemiQ, Alps Alpine, Faraday Technology and Fraunhofer ISIT are among 21 customers quoted by name. Beyond those names, eight of the world’s ten largest display makers use Silvaco TCAD. Silvaco EDA runs at six of the ten biggest semiconductor companies, and more than 200 universities teach and research with the tools.
Probably. The customer testimonials lean toward power devices, with seven SiC, GaN and silicon power customers. Photonics and optoelectronics has four, display three, automotive two, and memory and high-performance computing one each. Two publish a number. eTopus cut one block’s post-layout simulation from 20+ days to 6, and Alps Alpine reports run times at least 5X shorter.
They’re first-hand. Each quote is the customer’s own statement, attributed by name and title, and many first ran in a Silvaco press release. eTopus and Alps Alpine measured the two results themselves, each on its own design and node. The surest check is your own: an evaluation run on your device data.
Ask, and be specific. Tell our technical experts which product you’re evaluating and on what process node, so they know which customers have already worked on a problem like yours. Whether a customer takes your call is always that customer’s own decision.
Email Silvaco’s media relations team at press@silvaco.com. Say which Silvaco product you ran, what changed when you did, and who at your company can sign off a published quote. Numbers carry the most weight. A before-and-after figure from your own design tells other engineers more than any adjective could.
If a published quote doesn’t go deep enough for your decision, tell our technical experts what’s missing, whether that’s the flow or the numbers behind a result. They’ll say what can be shared with you, and on what terms, before you commit.
