XYALIS is an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company, which offers advanced solutions in Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Mask Data Preparation, enabling customers to reduce time to manufacturing, increase engineering productivity during tape-out, increase manufacturing yield, and avoid errors that can be overly costly when discovered during mask or wafer production.

XYALIS focuses on two main flows of the layout finishing process:

• Metal filling to address Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) issues
• Mask data preparation

Metal Filling

Metal filling is now necessary for advanced processes in order to increase factory yield. The insertion of dummies ensures a uniform pattern distribution over chips and wafers, resulting in higher manufacturability. These additional electrically inactive polygons add parasitic effects and may impact correct design behavior and timing.

With XYALIS' solutions there is no compromise between yield improvement and design performance. Thanks to patented dummy distribution algorithms, XYALIS metal-filling solutions have been addressing the most advanced needs of the semiconductor industry.

Mask Data Preparation

XYALIS is the only independent company offering a fully integrated environment to build complex reticles as well as 1X masks, both for regular arrays of dies and for Multi Project Wafers (MPWs) or shuttles.

Built around a powerful dedicated graphical editor, the mask data preparation environment provides all the needed features to address the most ambitious mask making processes: MPW management, automatic frame generation, mask and reticle assembly, wafer map optimization.

XYALIS' solutions have been developed in cooperation with major semiconductor industry leaders and have been used in production for the most advanced processes (65nm and below).

XYALIS, a privately held company founded in 1998, is headquartered in Grenoble, France, and has opened an office in San Jose, California.