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RUBICAD Provides Best-In-Class EDA Tools and Services

RUBICAD's business is focused in the back end area of IC design. Founded in 1993, RUBICAD’s original charter was to develop and market its proprietary IC layout compaction technology.

Today, RUBICAD no longer sees itself as a point-tool supplier of compaction software. Since its founding, RUBICAD has acquired the know-how and underlying technology, and has tools in place, in the following areas:

Layout entry
Layout compaction
Layout correction
Timing optimization
Power optimization
Signal integrity solutions
DRC and LVS verification
RC extraction
Layout synthesis
OPC

The following trends in the semiconductor industry will create the next evolution in IC design:

Increasing demand for wafers and increasing wafer supply shortage
Reduced yield and smaller rate of good first silicon in ultra deep sub-micron technologies
The gap between signal delay and gate delay will continue to widen
The clock speed of designs will increase further Increasing time-to-market pressure will be caused by an increased number of design iterations in UDSM and by higher circuit complexity
Design reuse will be accepted more and more as the most promising solution for closing the design gap. It becomes clear that hard IP is the most practical and economical solution
Fabless companies are looking for alternative wafer sources
Design cycles for large designs are three times longer than technology cycles
An increasing number of system houses implement a COT design flow

RUBICAD's design methodology, containing a layout modification approach, solves most of these problems. Many companies have adopted layout compaction technology to reduce the effects of wafer shortages and create second-source wafer supplies. The same layout manipulation technology can be used to solve timing, power and signal integrity problems in order to reduce the number of design iterations. Layout conversion technology is further needed to convert hard IP to different technologies and to enable a global design reuse strategy that will reduce time-to-market pressures.
By providing best-in-class tools, effective design reuse methodologies, and TopQuality Service, RUBICAD is the essential partner to companies that design for leading-edge technologies and systems-on-a-chip.

RUBICAD's Products
RUBICAD provides the fully integrated tool suite LADEE, (Layout and Design Environment).
LADEE includes the following tools, which operate under the same database and graphical user interface:
Wizard is a task-oriented high-level interface guide.
DECOR is the layout correction engine.
LACE is the layout compaction engine.
LACEedit is the IC layout polygon editor.
AutoMask is an easy-to-use mask manipulation tool.
LayAna automatically analyzes an IC layout's hierarchy.
LayNet extracts the hierarchical netlist of an IC layout.
BatchComp allows interactive setup of a conversion flow.
CrossSpeed calculates signal/power/timing constraints.
HierO evaluates the layout for area optimization.
P-Rex introduces parameterized cells into the layout database.

LINUX-Ready
RUBICAD's IC layout tools operate under all major operating systems, such as SUN OS, Solaris, and HP. The LADEE tool suite is the only integrated physical design tool suite operating under LINUX.

Quality Assurance
RUBICAD's software development and service division operates according to ISO 9001 certification, ensuring transparency and the most reliable tools and service to our customers. RUBICAD received ISO 9001 certification in June 1997.

Sales and Support
RUBICAD markets and supports its products through its direct sales, support, and service center in Sillicon Valley. Headquarters are located in downtown San Jose. Click here for directions.

Contact Us
RUBICAD Corp.
111 North Market Street, Suite 940
San Jose, CA 95113
Tel. (408) 995 3334
Fax (408) 995 3335
Email: info@rubicad.com, sales@rubicad.com