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Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Cadence Design Systems | Subject: Encounter
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 27 September 2007

Multicore design optimises ARM
performance

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Design success prompts NEC to standardise on the Encounter platform as its tapeout methodology of choice for ARM processor implementations.

NEC Electronics America has used the Cadence Encounter digital IC design platform to implement one of the world's highest-performance low-power ARM11 MPCore multicore processors The success of the dual core implementation of the ARM11 MPCore processor core, rated at over 700MHz and built on 90nm process technology, has prompted NEC to standardise on the Encounter platform as its tapeout methodology of choice for ARM processor implementations