News Release from: MatrixOne
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 16 June 2005
PLM software accelerates IC design and development
MatrixOne Semiconductor Accelerators for Enterprise Project Management and Design-to-Manufacturing meet the specific needs of IC product development to speed time to market for new designs.
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MatrixOne has developed new industry solutions that will enable semiconductor companies and IC design organisations to address complex business challenges involved with the streamlined execution of large scale development projects from conceptual design to manufacturing handoff. The latest in a series of rapidly deployable, prepackaged PLM offerings, the MatrixOne Semiconductor Accelerators for Enterprise Project Management and Design-to-Manufacturing are tailored to meet the specific needs of IC product development to speed time to market for new designs. As the industry moves to 65 nanometre semiconductor process technology and beyond, designers face numerous simultaneous challenges, as they are pressured to introduce an ever-increasing number of new products with an abundance of advances in functionality, while lowering costs and reducing staffing levels.
At the same time, increased global competition to bring winning designs to market has dramatically shortened the timeframe for new chips and products to be completed and released.
These new offerings, combined with MatrixOne's semiconductor industry-leading solutions for design data management and intellectual property (IP) reuse and distribution provide the semiconductor industry, for the first time, with an integrated environment to deliver new product to market from concept to silicon.
'It is imperative that semiconductor companies gain visibility, control and measurement to improve predictability of new product investments', said John Fleming, Senior Vice President and General Manager-Electronics Business Unit, MatrixOne.
'With these new industry solutions, our customers can manage, in a single environment, all of their product development activities from concept to launch, while improving communication and collaboration between system design, test, and manufacturing engineers'.
'As a result, semiconductor companies may realise reduced design iterations and cycle times, increasing the likelihood that products may be delivered on schedule and on budget to meet market share and margin targets'.
The new MatrixOne Semiconductor Accelerators are designed to allow semiconductor manufacturers to rapidly implement industry-specific best practices, with lower risk and faster return on investment than other PLM solutions that have not been tailored to the specific needs of semiconductor companies and design organisations.
The MatrixOne Semiconductor Accelerator for Enterprise Project Management tunes the capabilities of MatrixOne Program Central - a full featured advanced project management environment - to the specific needs of chip makers, and links them to the world's leading design management solution for IC designers, MatrixOne's Synchronicity Developer Suite.
For the first time, designers can continue to work within their comfortable EDA design environment - Cadence, Synopsis or other tools - and any changes they make will automatically drive updates to the project plan, enabling project and programme managers to obtain real-time information when making critical decisions, no matter where they are located.
Key features and capabilities include templates for standard design flows, tracking of project activity and milestones, risk management, early warning of troubled projects, tracking of project financials and the leveraging of desktop tools and process to approve new concepts.
The new MatrixOne Semiconductor Accelerator for Design-to-Manufacturing offers a powerful solution for managing the complex and data-intensive processes required by semiconductor organisations to manufacture and launch new products.
It is the first full-featured bill of material (BOM) and change management solution designed specially to meet the needs of the semiconductor industry.
It enables semiconductor organisations to align marketing requirements with design outputs and ensure efficient flow of the right information at the right time across marketing, engineering, manufacturing, assembly and test.
This single repository gives semiconductor organisations and their partners the competitive advantage of a 'single version of the truth' to drive first silicon success.
Key features and capabilities include controlling complex semiconductor product configurations, automating the creation of the multi-level IC BOM, repeatable change processes and access to time-phased yield data.
The MatrixOne Semiconductor Accelerator for Enterprise Project Management and the MatrixOne Semiconductor Accelerator for Design-to-Manufacturing are both available now.
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