Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Sagantec
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 20 May 2002
Tools accelerate memory
implementation for Virage
Virage Logic has standardised on Sagantec's migration and optimisation tools to accelerate the implementation of its memory compiler products in the latest process technologies
After an extensive evaluation, Virage Logic decided to adopt Sagantec's physical design tools. The deployment has begun with SiClone, Sagantec's automatic and hierarchical physical design migration tool. "With the increasing need to support many customers moving to the newest technologies, we needed to automate and optimise our memory implementation process", said Raymond Leung, vice president of engineering operations at Virage Logic.
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"SiClone's hierarchical migration features provide the acceleration factor necessary for us to expedite our physical design methodology, in turn allowing us to use a minimum of resources and offer a greater variety of products in a shorter time frame".
"We are pleased that Virage Logic, the fastest-growing US semiconductor IP company, has chosen Sagantec tools to accelerate the delivery of their innovative memory products", said Coby Zelnik, senior vice president of business development at Sagantec.
"Memories comprise full-custom circuits that are designed using handcrafted, optimised structures.
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They require significant design effort and time.
Virage Logic's choice of Sagantec tools underscores the capability of our solutions for fast implementation of complex designs in the newest technologies".
As a semiconductor IP supplier for both integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) and fabless customers, Virage Logic has to continuously develop and offer memory IP in the latest process technologies.
One of the most costly and labour-intensive tasks in developing memories is physical design, which becomes increasingly more complex in the newer deep submicron technologies.
With SiClone, memory compilers and embedded memory blocks can be ported automatically to the newest process technologies, cutting design time and engineering costs by an order of magnitude.
SiClone maintains the complete hierarchy and automatically handles all abutment, alignment and pitch-matching requirements.
The result is a finished physical design implemented correctly and optimally using the most advanced line widths and design rules of the latest technology.
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