Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Monterey Design Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 14 March 2003
Patent for synthesis
and prototyping technology
Monterey Design Systems has been issued patent number US 6,523,161 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, bringing the company's patent total to a dozen
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The patent applies to the physical synthesis and prototyping technology that represents a key element of the Monterey Progressive Refinement approach for multi-million-gate nanometre chips. As the cost of design rises exponentially with each new generation of process technology, the penalty of making a bad decision early in the design cycle becomes increasingly severe the classic example being choice of process technology.
Monterey's Progressive Refinement technology provides design teams with valuable information about the final physical implementation very early in the design cycle.
With Monterey planning, prototyping, and implementation tools, the design team can very quickly develop trial implementations of critical parts of the chip, and determine whether all design requirements can be met using a specific process.
In this way, design teams may discover they can use an older, more stable process and save millions of dollars that could have been lost using a more advanced process, due to higher mask set and manufacturing costs or poor yields.
The technology covered by the patent is available today in the Monterey IC Wizard, Sonar, and Dolphin products on all supported hardware platforms.
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