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FLUENT RELEASES ICEMAX V2.2
12 January 2007 - NAFEMS
| Fluent Inc., have released version 2.2 of its Icemax software, the world's fastest circuit extraction tool for analyzing advanced IC package designs. The new version of the Icemax solver comes with 64-bit OS support, practically eliminating the limit on the complexity of electrical models that can be generated. |
As the packaging industry gets ready to meet the challenges of next-generation packaging technologies, including System-in-Package, Package-in-Package, Package-on-Package etc., the 64-bit version of Icemax will prove to be an invaluable addition in design flows. Customers will no longer be restricted by the memory limitations intrinsic to 32-bit operating systems. "Icemax is already well-known in the semiconductor industry worldwide for its speed, ease-of-use and seamless ability to import package layouts in standard industry formats," says Rajesh Nair, Product Manager, Fluent's Ice Division, "With Icemax 2.2, our customers will experience computational performance that Fluent is recognized for and is unmatched in the industry today. Computations that take days in other tools can now be completed in a few hours. To meet the stringent product development cycles in today's IC packaging industry, Icemax continues to be the only viable solution." Icemax 2.2 also comes with several industry-leading breakthrough improvements in the following areas: Advanced geometry cleanup schemes, to minimize the number of facets describing the design, ultimately leading to smaller model sizes.
A new and improved "hybrid" mesh (consisting of triangles and quadrilaterals) that gives a much smaller cell count than traditional triangular meshing schemes employed in other electrical modeling tools. Optimized integration schemes, to generate accurate solutions without excessive mesh refinement. "Halo-based" proximity detection algorithm for capacitance parameter extraction, eliminating unnecessary geometric features from the capacitance model. Multi-CPU support for RLC computations, allowing solution times to scale based on the number of CPU's. All of these enhancements allow accurate solutions to be generated faster and with far less memory requirements than earlier releases of Icemax.
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NAFEMS is a not for profit organisation aimed at promoting best practices and also fostering education and awareness in the engineering analysis community. In line with its objectives to promote the effective use of simulation technologies, NAFEMS is continually seeking to create awareness of new analysis methodologies, deliver education & training, and stimulate the adoption of best practices and standards by offering a platform for continuous professional development.By the late 1970s and early 1980s, as computing power became more widely available, increasingly industry was starting to solve practical engineering problems using finite element analysis techniques. There was however considerable concern that the accuracy of the methods, and software implementations, required to be verified in order to allow the results to be effectively used. Following extensive lobbying, by industry and academia, the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) set up, and funded, a project within the National Engineering Laboratory (NEL), based in East Kilbride, Scotland, to investigate the issues. As a result the National Agency for Finite Element Methods and Standards, quickly shortened to the acronym NAFEMS, was founded as a special interest group in 1983 with a specific objective namely: "To promote the safe and reliable use of finite element and related technology" In order to keep engineers abreast of the latest developments in the Analysis World the quarterly magazine BENCHmark was launched by NAFEMS in July 1987. After seven years of seed funding by the UK government, and with the support of its industrial members, the decision was taken to launch NAFEMS Ltd as an independent not-for-profit company, owned by its member's in 1990. The company celebrated its 10th Anniversary in 2000, and has developed both the scope of its technology focus and its membership well beyond the original vision. Today NAFEMS and its members are involved in many different types of engineering simulation covering both products and processes. Membership continues to grow, now exceeding 700 corporate members in over 30 different countries. Steering groups have been set up in the UK, France, Germany, and the USA to co-ordinate local activities and interaction with members. |
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