Designing and characterising the foundation IP that most designs on the node need: standard cell libraries in their chosen cell architectures and threshold voltage options, IO libraries and memory compilers, with their timing, power and noise views, abstracts and library QA, released in step with the kit's maturity. Preliminary libraries go out with the beta kit and characterised libraries with the pre-production kit.
This stage with its neighbours. Each row is a discipline active here, shaded by how mature its work is by the end of each stage.
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