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Nangate 45nm Open Cell Library supports 64-bit multi-core, multi-thread OpenSPARC

Nangate and Sun Microsystems, Inc. are delighted to announce the interoperability of industry leading open-source 64-bit Chip Multi-threading (CMT) microprocessor design by Sun with Nangate's 45nm Open Cell Library.

Users can now synthesize and optimize state-of-the-art OpenSPARC T1 and OpenSPARC T2 design blocks, using industry standard synthesis tools, on a 45nm technology supplied by Nangate. We believe this combination will facilitate research and experimentation in modern VLSI design topics like timing and noise, reliability, and process variation among other things. We also believe the open-source nature of these two offerings will allow researchers to modify and test new ideas in a consistent and reproducible manner.

The Nangate 45nm Open Cell Library is an open-source, standard-cell library provided for the purposes of testing and exploring EDA flows.

Nangate has developed and donated this library to Si2.org for open use. The library is intended to aid university research programs and organizations such as Si2 in developing flows, developing circuits and exercising new algorithms. In its first release the Open Cell Library contains 38 different functions ranging from buffers to scan flip-flops with set and reset. With multiple drive strength variants, the library includes over 100 different standard cells.