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News Release from: Cadence Design Systems | Subject: Encounter
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 27 January 2005

Compiler helps Sanyo
reduce power consumption

Sanyo has achieved an important production tapeout with the Cadence Encounter digital IC design platform, including RTL Compiler synthesis

Encounter RTL compiler helped reduce the power consumption of an important block of Sanyo's chip by 10%, while maintaining critical performance requirements. RTL Compiler shrunk the chip's area significantly over the size achieved by competitive solutions. Sanyo applied Encounter RTL Compiler to a design-critical block for high-end graphics processing.

This was integrated into an ASIC chip at the heart of Sanyo's new digital consumer product.

'We chose Encounter RTL Compiler to tape out this important new chip because it provided us with better area and power that couldn't be attained using our previous synthesis solution', said Dr Hideki Yamauchi, Materials and Devices Development Centre BU, Sanyo Electric.

'Besides the improvements we realised in speed, area and power, we appreciated the ease with which we were able to integrate Encounter RTL Compiler into our existing production environment'.

Interconnect related parameters, design rules and failure mechanisms dominate nanometre designs.

Physical properties of designs at and below 130 nanometres require a metric for speed, area, power and test.

Quality of silicon (QoS) is a metric that measures a design's physical characteristics - in terms of performance, area and power - with wires.

Encounter RTL Compiler synthesis uses a unique set of global-focus synthesis technologies that offer chip designers the highest QoS in less time, and with less effort.

'We are very excited about the unique technology that Encounter RTL Compiler has helped further the success of this important Japanese customer', said Dr Chi-Ping Hsu, Corporate Vice President at Cadence.

'Encounter RTL Compiler is now being successfully used in production by systems companies throughout the world to create better quality of designs within a few weeks of product installation'.

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