Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Monterey Design Systems | Subject: Linux platform support
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 4 October 2002
Linux port cuts the cost of design
Monterey Design Systems has ported its entire product line to the Linux operating system for Intel and AMD processors
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The Linux port, which takes advantage of the favourable price and performance of Linux platforms, is expected to be especially attractive to chip designers performing their own in-house physical design using a customer-owned tooling (COT) flow. Monterey focuses on helping companies to gain a competitive advantage in design cost and performance by performing their own physical design.
"Monterey is committed to providing our customers with the easiest-to-deploy, easiest-to-use, and most productive design solution available", said Dave Reed, vice president of marketing at Monterey, "By porting our software to the Linux platform, we are lowering the hardware cost of deploying our advanced physical implementation system".
Because Monterey Sonar and Dolphin are completely multi-threaded, they provide compelling performance on dual processor Linux workstations.
For example, on a $3000 dual CPU Linux platform running at 2GHz, Dolphin can complete the physical synthesis of a one million-gate design from initial netlist through final GDSII in an overnight run.
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In addition to supporting low cost Linux hardware, Monterey lowers the cost to adopt and use physical design tools in three important ways.
First, Monterey provides a complete solution for planning, prototyping, and implementation.
With Monterey, it is not necessary to purchase multiple products from different vendors and then waste time patching them together into a design flow.
Secondly, the ramp-up time for learning Monterey products is very short.
Typical ramp-up time for Monterey products is just a few weeks.
Thirdly, Monterey products provide more automation than competing design tools, which greatly improves designer productivity.
In many cases, Monterey customers have reported that a single physical design engineer using Monterey has achieved what would ordinarily take two or more engineers using legacy design flows.
By combining these advantages with the hardware cost savings from Linux platform support Monterey provides an unbeatable package for COT designers.
All Monterey software products will be available on Red Hat Linux 7.x beginning in November 2002.
(This was Electronicstalk's Top Story on 4 October 2002)
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