HDT (High Design Technology) Mission in 1999 by Emmanuel Leroux

1. HDT
High Design Technology
World ’s Fastest Circuit Analysis Company

2. Company Environment
Turin
home of
• Fiat (Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Ferrari ….)
• CSELT (Telecom Italia - 4th ww operator)
• Politecnico School of Engineering

3. The Industry Trends
1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000
• The Demands
• Smaller
• Faster
• Cheaper
• Sooner
• The Constraints
• Gate delays
• Cross talks
• Switching noises
• Parasitic radiation
MHz
80386
80486
Pentium pro
Pentium II
Pentium
50
100
150
200
250
300
80286

4. The Legal Requirements
Starting January 1996
the European guideline on Electro Magnetic
Compatibility is explicit:
If the product does not conform…
….it cannot go to the market !

5. The Engineering Crisis
Routing
• Electrical Constraints
- Gate delays
- Cross talks
- Switching noises
- Parasitic radiation
• Geometry Rules
- Clearances
- Wire & Via Sizes
- Routing Layers
TheLawofOhm
• Smaller
- Higher density
• Faster
- Timing controls
• Cheaper
- Lower Power
• Sooner
- Time to Market
Schematics
Pre-layout
Post-layout
Controls & Test

6. The Switching Problem
If your signal doesn’t behave
you don’t get to the market
Before optimization
After optimization

7. Our Mission
Providing the Tools to Tame the Signals
Directing the pre-layout
Verifying the post-layout
Converting Electrical Constraints into Geometric Rules
Controlling the Routing Process

8. The Engineering Crisis solved
Concurrent
routing
• Electrical Constraints
- Gate delays
- Cross talks
- Switching noises
- Parasitic radiation
• Geometry Rules
- Clearances
- Wire & Via Sizes
- Routing Layers
TheLawofOhm
• Smaller
- Higher density
• Faster
- Timing controls
• Cheaper
- Lower Power
• Sooner
- Time to Market
Schematics
Pre-layout
Post-layout
Controls & Test

9. Our Objective
Becoming the
World ’s Leading
Circuit Analysis Company
(along with ZR
if just possible)