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News Release from: Cadence Design Systems | Subject: VCAD, Encounter and Incisive
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 6 October 2003
SensorDynamics standardises design methodologies
SensorDynamics has selected the VCAD service model and technologies from the Encounter and Incisive platforms to enable and speed the development of highly complex microsensor applications
SensorDynamics has selected the Cadence Virtual Integrated CAD (VCAD) service model and technologies from the Cadence Encounter digital IC design platform and the Cadence Incisive functional verification platform to enable and speed the development of highly complex microsensor applications.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 October 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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SensorDynamics, a startup company based in Graz-Lebring, Austria, develops and industrialises customer-specific microsensor systems through complete design solutions from analysis and development to design optimisation and manufacturing.
The company will standardise its solutions by using the Cadence VCAD service model and Cadence solution platforms and for the development of integrated mixed signal ICs (integrated circuits), allowing it to reduce overall development time and provide optimum design quality assurances to its customers.
SensorDynamics is targeting high-volume automotive and industrial sensor markets with applications that include single and multi-dimensional inertial devices, airflow and current sensors, and integrated ICs for these sensor categories.
In developing solutions, expertise in sensor modelling is combined with applied mathematics and embedded design skills to produce end-systems.
"Working with Cadence provides us with access to the very best solutions and services for developing complete design flows for complex mixed signal ICs", said Juergen Tittel, Vice President, Marketing and Sales, SensorDynamics.
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"Our customer assignments rely on speed of implementation as well as on high-quality designs that match specific and complex requirements.
The power and versatility of the Cadence VCAD service model gives us further confidence that we can deliver on these needs".
Microsensor systems are designed as a combination of sensor elements and sensor interface ICs.
In order to achieve optimum performance, designers need to successfully combine a sophisticated analogue front-end with a digital signal processing on chips based on deep sub-micron CMOS technologies.
"Cadence will act as a key design partner in ensuring that SensorDynamics delivers optimum system solutions for its sensor customers", said Guillaume d'Eyssautier, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Cadence Europe.
"Our VCAD service model provides customers such as SensorDynamics with flexible access to a broad set of expertise through a combination of onsite and virtual presence.
The ability to deliver complete front-to-back flows is crucial to our customers' success in designing systems of this type".
VCAD is a design-system life-cycle support service model that implements and manages customer design environments from early-stage design system architecture and planning, through design system and flow implementation, all the way to ongoing operations and enhancement support.
By establishing a collaboration infrastructure, the broad range of Cadence's expertise can be leveraged in a flexible way to complement a company's existing skills and to provide comprehensive and rapid issue resolution throughout all design phases, thus overcoming any potential difficulties that might put design success at risk.
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