Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Chip Estimate Corp | Subject: InCyte
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 8 May 2007
Software predicts IC
size, power and cost
Novel technology enables performance analysis at the earliest phase of the chip design cycle
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New technology from Chip Estimate Corp enables performance analysis at the earliest phase of the chip design cycle. The flagship InCyte product now provides users quantifiable feedback regarding the feasibility of achieving various performance targets for their chip. The new analysis capability is technology node, process and IP specific.
Users can now make better decisions regarding chip architecture tradeoffs to minimise the risk of missing performance goals, and to push the limits of technology with greater success.
In addition, the company also announced that other significant features have been added to InCyte that increase the utility of the early chip planning system and strengthen EDA design flow integration.
Users can now get quantified feedback on the likelihood of achieving performance goals for a given chip specification, targeted at a specific manufacturing process.
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InCyte provides a range of frequencies achievable and recommendations on logic depth.
The interconnectivity of IP and other design components within a chip can now be incorporated into design specifications enabling more accurate chip planning and estimation.
Connectivity provides significant enhancements to the generation of design data which can then be leveraged by IC implementation tools.
Design teams can now communicate their architectural specifications visually into InCyte with the ease of use of a tool like Microsoft Visio.
Users simply drag and drop IP and other design components into block diagrams that InCyte uses to estimate the size, power and cost of the resulting chip.
Design specification data now links directly into leading EDA implementation flows from vendors including Cadence, Magma, Mentor Graphics and Synopsys.
By coupling design specifications and IP data, InCyte now outputs design data files, such as specific scripts and wrappers to automatically feed design plans into industry standard file formats and EDA implementation tools.
Users have a streamlined path from their design size, power and cost estimation to convergence in final silicon.
InCyte helps guide user selection of IP libraries and provides quantified feedback on the particular density, power, leakage and performance of a given library.
The software ships with models for hundreds of popular third-party IP libraries accessible at the click of a button and also supports internally developed IP.
This technology will be demonstrated at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in San Diego, California from 4th to 8th June 2007.
InCyte starts at US $35,000 and is available immediately.
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