Press Release number 3 from CDN... A customer testimonial.
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Tuesday September 7, 6:02 pm Eastern Time
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ASIC International Uses Cadence Synthesis Tool to Compile 2.4-Million Gate Design
Ultra High Capacity of Envisia Ambit Product Enables Chip-Level Synthesis
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 1999--Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN - news), the world's leading supplier of electronic design products and services, today announced that its Envisia(TM) Ambit© synthesis tool was instrumental in synthesizing a 2.4-million gate design created by ASIC International.
The Envisia Ambit synthesis tool provided the capacity required to compile the entire design in a single pass.
ASIC International (``AI') is a leading, full-service, ASIC design-services firm that features some of the world's technology leaders among its customers. ASIC International has developed a unique ability to design and lay out large, deep sub-micron, digital designs. AI provides the complete integrated circuit (IC) design flow, including specification, logic verification, synthesis, place-and-route, physical verification and parasitic extraction.
``Our design expertise is quite rich, allowing us to deliver better quality designs at cost, on schedule, and with significantly less risk,' said Max Lloyd, vice president of sales at ASIC International. ``With a team of senior design engineers and best-in-class tools, ASIC International achieves unrivaled design productivity. As designs escalate into the millions of gates, dependable, high capacity, high performance synthesis is imperative. Envisia Ambit synthesis is a valuable part of our design flow.'
``We are quite happy with the Ambit product,' said Mark Goode, vice president of IC design. ``It has been an integral part of our design flow which has enabled us to effectively and efficiently tape out chips ranging in size from 150K gates to 2.4M gates. The Envisia Ambit synthesis tool, with its capacity advantages, allowed chip integration to be performed at the chip-level, with optimization in a single-pass.'
``We are pleased that our synthesis tools have enabled chip-level synthesis for ASIC International,' said Jeff Roane, director of synthesis product marketing at Cadence. ``The Envisia Ambit synthesis tool is the highest performance and capacity synthesis tool on the market and continues to be the only synthesis tool capable of true chip-level synthesis of multi-million gate designs.'
About Cadence
Cadence is the largest supplier of electronic design automation products, methodology services, and design services used to accelerate and manage the design of semiconductors, computer systems, networking and telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics, and a variety of other electronics-based products. With more than 4,000 employees and 1998 annual sales of $1.2 billion, Cadence has sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world. The Company is headquartered in San Jose and traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CDN. More information about the company, its products and services may be obtained from the World Wide Web at cadence.com.
About ASIC International
ASIC International (``Ai') is a leading provider of IC design services. The company is headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tenn. More information is available at www.asicint.com. |
