{"id":371,"date":"2023-11-15T14:21:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T19:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aprisa\/?p=371"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:09:42","slug":"aprisa-and-tsmc-pave-the-way-for-mutual-customers-success-at-n3e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aprisa\/2023\/11\/15\/aprisa-and-tsmc-pave-the-way-for-mutual-customers-success-at-n3e\/","title":{"rendered":"Aprisa and TSMC pave the way for mutual customers\u2019 success at N3E\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When starting a project on a new node, designers spend a great deal of time figuring out which EDA tools work best for their chosen foundry\u2019s process technologies.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siemens and TSMC recently announced that Aprisa, the digital implementation solution from Siemens, became certified for the TSMC N3E process, which helps our customers stay on the forefront of technology innovation.&nbsp;You can read the press release <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.sw.siemens.com\/en-US\/tsmc-oip-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inki Hong, general manager of the Aprisa digital implementation products, discussed the N3 certification during the most recent TSMC OIP Symposium, and how Aprisa with its support of TSMC\u2019s N3 technologies, can help your design teams more smoothly navigate the transition to N3.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aprisa Digital Implementation Software Certified on TSMC N3\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XuCtl42DaGQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TSMC\u2019s certification of Aprisa for the foundry\u2019s N3 process reinforces strong commitment by Siemens to investing in the digital implementation space. The N3 certification, together with Aprisa\u2019s industry-leading ease-of-use, can help customers accelerate their migration to this node.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTSMC\u2019s pace of innovation is remarkable, and we are proud to work with this partner for the benefit of our many mutual customers,\u201d said Joe Sawicki, executive vice president, IC-EDA for Siemens Digital Industries Software. \u201cOptimizing our EDA solutions for TSMC\u2019s latest processes helps us provide our mutual customers with innovative solutions that satisfy their challenging and rapidly evolving market and business requirements.\u201d&nbsp;Aprisa is proud of our long-standing collaboration with TSMC that allows our mutual customers to create innovative designs with confidence.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this certification, Aprisa successfully implemented the TSMC reference design (figure 1), passing all certification criteria.&nbsp;Aprisa met all power, timing, area, LVS convergence, signoff correlation, and runtime metrics, while also demonstrating DRC clean closure with Calibre.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/11\/TSMC-reference-design-N3-600x315.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot of the TSMC reference design for N3\" class=\"wp-image-375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/11\/TSMC-reference-design-N3-600x315.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/11\/TSMC-reference-design-N3-1024x537.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/11\/TSMC-reference-design-N3-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/11\/TSMC-reference-design-N3-1536x805.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/11\/TSMC-reference-design-N3-2048x1074.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/11\/TSMC-reference-design-N3-900x472.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 1. TSMC reference design for N3E certification. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>In addition, Aprisa\u2019s auto site balancing feature achieved balanced utilization of TSMC\u2019s FinFlex library cells (figure 2), a must for the N3 node.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"419\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/11\/FinFlex-based-placement-600x419.jpg\" alt=\"A screen capture showing cell placement using Aprisa's site balancing for TSMC;s FinFlex library cells\" class=\"wp-image-376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/11\/FinFlex-based-placement-600x419.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/11\/FinFlex-based-placement-1024x715.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/11\/FinFlex-based-placement-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/11\/FinFlex-based-placement-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/11\/FinFlex-based-placement-900x629.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/11\/FinFlex-based-placement.jpg 2044w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 2. Aprisa\u2019s FinFlex-based placement. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Aprisa\u2019s detail-route-centric architecture continues to produce tight correlation with signoff even at the most advanced nodes.&nbsp;This, in combination with its node-ready out-of-the-box flows, makes Aprisa the most flexible and easiest solution to adopt in the place-and-route market.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/eda.sw.siemens.com\/en-US\/ic\/aprisa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about Aprisa<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aprisa, the the digital implementation solution from Siemens, is certified for the TSMC N3E process. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83393,"featured_media":374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[347,463,43,40,37,464],"industry":[312],"product":[49],"coauthors":[340],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-aprisa","tag-n3","tag-p-r","tag-physical-design","tag-place-and-route","tag-tsmc","industry-electronics-semiconductors","product-aprisa"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/11\/siemens-tsmc-oip-2023-newsroom-1280x720-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aprisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aprisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aprisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aprisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aprisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aprisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aprisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aprisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aprisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aprisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aprisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aprisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aprisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aprisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}