SK Hynix adopts ProPlus NanoSpice™ to accelerate image sensor (CIS) chip verification

ProPlus Semiconductor (stock code: 688206.SH) announced that its high-performance parallel SPICE simulator NanoSpice™ has been adopted by SK Hynix to accelerate the simulation verification of image sensor (CIS) chips, helping SK Hynix's customers to verify their chip designs and achieve efficient CPU resource allocation, better convergence and accuracy in default mode.

As the capacity and performance of CIS chips continue to increase, fast and accurate circuit simulation and verification tools are needed to achieve advanced IC design. NanoSpice™ provides good simulation convergence and accuracy, helping SK Hynix customers improve confidence in simulation verification and shorten design cycles.

NanoSpice™ is a new generation of high-capacity, high-precision, high-performance parallel SPICE circuit simulator launched by ProLiant. It is optimized for circuit simulation of high-precision analog circuits and large-scale post-simulation circuits, and meets the high-precision, high-capacity and high-performance high-end circuit simulation needs. Through the innovative parallel circuit simulation engine, NanoSpice™ can handle high-precision simulation of general-purpose circuits with more than 50 million components.

Changho Do, Vice President of CAE at SK hynix, said: “The cooperation between SK hynix and ProPlus is a win-win situation. NanoSpice™ can support up to 16 cores of parallel computing under a single license, and the simulation results are as accurate as the reference values ​​under its default options without any additional conditions, and it has passed the verification of our CIS products.”

Dr. Zhihong Liu, Chairman and CEO of ProPlus, said: “SK Hynix is ​​a long-term and important customer and partner of ProPlus, and we have been continuously improving our technology to meet the simulation challenges brought by CIS and memory chips. By verifying their full-flow simulation needs from smaller circuit modules to full chip design, NanoSpice™ can meet the most demanding design verification requirements for performance and accuracy, and help achieve goals that are difficult to achieve with other circuit simulation solutions.”