With an eye to a closer Design Collaboration in advanced process nodes, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, one of the world's leading dedicated semiconductor foundries, invested in Socle in June 2008 as the major shareholder. Later in December 2009, GLOBALFOUNDRIES merged Chartered Semiconductor and becamed Socle's major share holder. GLOBALFOUNDRIES is well know for its commitment in developing advanced process node in 65nm, 40nm, and beyond . GLOBALFOUNDRIES' full commitment has made itself the world's leading foundry in terms of advanced node technologies. With GLOBALFOUNDRIES' mature process at 65nm and Socle's design excellence, Socle provides the first-tier design service worldwide.


Socle's advanced-node RTL-to-GDSII service provides the following features:

Timing

• Handling the critical paths spread over four power domains
• Handing the Isolation (ISO) and level shifting (LS) cells
• Handling the significantly increased run time in optimization, verification and analysis with multiple corners and multiple modes

Power

• Handling floor plan with consideration of timing/ performance/ IO assignment/ ease-of-physical implementation
• Considering both static EM/IR and dynamic IR effects
• Handling power connection for external shut-off/ internal-shut-off/ always-on

DFT

• Handling MBIST controllers, collars, and scan chain in different power domains
• Handling staggered rise edge of scan clock to reduce peak power
• Handling to minimize ISO/LS cells

DFM

• Handling significantly increased run time
• Handling and analyzing the process related DFM data from Chartered

Socle also offers its own SoC realization result, with a MSMV(Multi-supply Multi-Voltage) test chip, in GLOBALFOUNDRIES 65nm process technology to demonstrate its silicon-proven advanced-node RTL-to-GDSII service. The available MSMV test chip has following features: