Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Cadence Design Systems | Subject: Cadence Virtuoso Chip Editor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 23 May 2003
Editor finishes the job in record time
The Virtuoso Chip Editor chip finisher uses the OpenAccess application programming interface and database to directly link the Encounter digital platform with the Cadence custom environment
The Cadence Virtuoso Chip Editor chip finisher uses the OpenAccess application programming interface (API) and database to directly link the Cadence Encounter digital platform with the Cadence custom environment. With OpenAccess, Virtuoso Chip Editor provides customers with up to 10 times the performance and up to three times the capacity for digital and mixed-signal designs.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Chip finishing is the final stage of design implementation.
Historically, it has required the painfully slow exchange of multigigabyte data files (for example, DEF or GDSII formats) between digital and custom environments.
SoC Encounter and Virtuoso Chip Editor use the highly efficient OpenAccess database to eliminate this file-transfer bottleneck.
Chip finishing flows between SoC Encounter and Virtuoso Chip Editor can now be completed in a matter of minutes as compared with several hours - a significant productivity boost benefiting customers and their silicon partners.
Customers have evaluated Virtuoso Chip Editor and are now incorporating it into their production design flows.
"We've evaluated Cadence's new Virtuoso Chip Editor on the OpenAccess database at Agere", said Kathy Krisch, Director of Modelling and Design Kits at Agere Systems.
"We were able to load and edit our designs in a fraction of the time it previously took.
As a result of this evaluation, we plan to deploy design libraries and PDKs (process design kits) for OpenAccess so that we can use Virtuoso Chip Editor as our Cadence chip finishing solution.
The improved performance of Virtuoso Chip Editor will allow us to optimise the critical final stage of our design flow, allowing us to get our products to market more quickly".
"Virtuoso Chip Editor and SoC Encounter leverage OpenAccess to set a new standard for chip finishing", said Yaakov Milstain, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Custom IC at Cadence.
"Our investments in using OpenAccess technology as the infrastructure for our design and implementation platforms are now paying off for our customers.
And, since Virtuoso Chip Editor is part of the Virtuoso family, our customers' investment in DFII and SKILL is preserved".
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