From Standard Cells to Strategic Advantage: Building Differentiated PPA Value
Abstract:
An IC’s optimal balance of power, performance, and area (PPA) depends on the target application, so building them from generic standard cell libraries inevitably leaves customer value unrealized. With application-optimized libraries, foundries can broaden their application ecosystems, IDMs can tune their product families, and fabless companies on shared process nodes can distinguish their designs.
Silvaco’s CellForge is an enabling platform, automating layout creation, migration, and repeatable modifications while integrating with established DRC, LVS, extraction, characterization, and sign-off flows. By expanding exploration capacity and turning expert knowledge into reusable workflows, CellForge enables planar and advanced-node foundries, IDMs, and fabless companies to rapidly create highly differentiated libraries that accelerate product innovation, shorten development cycles, and strengthen competitive advantage.
What You Will Learn:
- How Foundries, IDMs, and Fabless companies can translate application-targeted standard cells into strategic advantage
- How standard cells can be customized to meet design and applications targets
- How to advance from focus on production deadlines to focus on the exploration for the optimal standard cells for each end application
Presenter
Nat Collins
Principal Field Applications Engineer, Silvaco
Nat Collins is a Principal Field Applications Engineer at Silvaco, based in Santa Clara, CA. Prior to joining Silvaco in July 2023, he was with PsiQuantum, Micron Technology, and Texas Instruments in various Process Integration, Testchip design and layout, and analog layout positions in logic, Flash, and cryogenic applications. Nat holds BS and MS engineering degrees from Boston University.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Digital design engineers, standard cell engineers, standard cell characterization engineers, and engineering management.
When: September 3, 2026
Where: Online
Time: 10:00 Santa Clara (Live Q&A)
Time: 11:00 Paris
Time: 10:00 Beijing
Language: English
Can’t attend live?
The on-demand recording will be available immediately after the webinar and emailed to all registrants.
Please note: Day of registration may not allow you access to live event but you will a link to archive.