The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) pioneered the pure-play foundry business model. By choosing not to design, manufacture or market any semiconductor products under its own name, the key to TSMC’s success has always been to focus on its customers’ success. TSMC-made semiconductors serve a global customer base that is large and diverse, with a wide range of applications used in a variety of end markets, including smartphones, high performance computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), automotive, and digital consumer electronics.
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The TSMC EDA Alliance reduces design barriers for customer adoption of TSMC process technologies. As an EDA Alliance partner, Siemens EDA works closely with TSMC's design technology teams to address mutual customer design needs through the enablement of new EDA tool features that align with TSMC advanced process development roadmap, as well as the implementation of TSMC's design methodology in reference flows. Through this collaboration, TSMC and Siemens EDA enable mutual customers to better achieve their PPA target in a shorter period of time.
TSMC EDA Alliance
TSMC coverage table
Siemens EDA IC Portfolio | Physical Verification | Double / Multi-Patterning | Pattern Matching | LVS | Parasitic Extraction | PERC | Power Integrity & EM | Fill¹ | Custom Design | Place and Route | Circuit Simulation |
14 Angstrom-class (A14) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | WIP | ✔ | | ✔ | | | ✔ |
16 Angstrom-class (A16) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | | ✔ | | | ✔ |
2nm | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | WIP | ✔ | | WIP | ✔ |
3nm | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | | ✔ | ✔ |
4nm | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | | ✔ | ✔ |
5nm | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | | ✔ | ✔ |
7nm / 6nm | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | WIP | ✔ | ✔ |
16nm / 12nm | ✔ | ✔ | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
28nm / 22nm | ✔ | | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
45nm / 40nm | ✔ | | | ✔ | ✔ | | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
65nm / 55nm | ✔ | | | ✔ | ✔ | | | ✔ | ✔ | ● | ✔ |
90nm | ✔ | | | ✔ | ✔ | | | | ✔ | ● | ✔ |
0.13um / 0.11um | ✔ | | | ✔ | ✔ | | | | ✔ | ● | ✔ |
>=0.18um | ✔ | | | ✔ | ✔ | | | | ✔ | ● | ✔ |
✔: certified; WIP: work in progress (as of January 2026)
[1]: Calibre SmartFill is POR (Plan of Record) below 20nm and Dummy Fill above 20nm.
●: Tech files would be provided by Siemens for those process nodes not yet certified. Please contact Aprisa product team for your requests.
IC Packaing workflow certification
Our ongoing collaboration with TSMC has successfully resulted in automated workflow certification for their InFO integration technology that is part of the 3DFabric platform. For mutual customers, this certification allows the development of innovative and highly differentiated end-products using best-in-class EDA software and industry-leading advanced packaging integration technologies.
Our automated InFO_oS and InFO_PoP design workflows are now certified by TSMC. These workflows include Innovator3D IC, HyperLynx DRC, and Calibre nmDRC technologies.
Integrated Fanout (InFO)
As defined by TSMC, InFO is an innovative wafer level system integration technology platform, featuring high density RDL (Re-Distribution Layer) and TIV (Through InFO Via) for high-density interconnect and performance for various applications, such as mobile, high performance computing, etc.. The InFO platform offers various package schemes in 2D and 3D that are optimized for specific applications.
InFO_oS leverages InFO technology and features higher density 2/2µm RDL line width/space to integrate multiple advanced logic chiplets for 5G networking application. It enables hybrid pad pitches on SoC with minimum 40µm I/O pitch, minimum 130µm C4 Cu bump pitch and > 2X reticle size InFO on >65 x 65mm substrates.
InFO_PoP, the industry's 1st 3D wafer level fan-out package, features high density RDL and TIV to integrate mobile AP w/ DRAM package stacking for mobile application. Comparing to FC_PoP, InFO_PoP has a thinner profile and better electrical and thermal performances because of no organic substrate and C4 bump.
Chip on Wafer on Substrate (CoWoS)
Integrates logic and memory in 3D targeting, AI, and HPC. Innovator3D IC creates, optimizes & manages a 3D model of the entire CoWoS device assembly.
Wafer on Wafer (WoW)
Innovator3D IC creates, optimizes, and manages a 3D digital twin model that drives detailed design and verification.
System-on-Integrated-Chips (SoIC)
Innovator3D IC optimizes and manages a 3D digital twin model that drives design and then verification with Calibre technologies.