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WESTFORD, Mass., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Zuken USA introduced an Advanced Packaging (AP) roadmap to address performance and manufacturing issues during the design phase. The product roadmap includes plans for a complete synthesis approach for automation concepts, including routing and pre-routing, enhancements to the menu flow, data input and library and embedded real-time signal integrity analysis.

Complex and very high-speed packaging technology as seen in flip chip and chip scale packaging (CSP) will need to include the ability to analyze signal integrity and RCL values on the fly. Zuken plans to offer Package Synthesizer as a complete synthesis tool, making every task completely automated with built-in advisement throughout the design process. With embedded real-time accessibility to auto-routing, manual routing, SI analysis and modeling features, Zuken will extend its advantage over its competitors.

Zuken is advancing automation by looking closer at the integrated circuit (IC) design, increasing the amount of input/output data from/to the IC and substrate layout, including parasitic value comparisons, reports and die floor planning based on the internals of the IC makeup. This will allow for a quicker and more accurate form factor design for a device.

``More intelligence can always be put into the IC package design cycle to allow designers and engineers to focus on more important aspects of a product, and make time-to-market demands,'' commented Les Ammann, director of AP technology. ``Our accomplishments to date are remarkable based on user notes and an average design cycle of a couple of days. A true design synthesis approach is achieved through complete integration from data input, wire bond optimization to via placement and package routing/analysis. In addition, online advisors and reports will sharply cut design time and move device concepts to finished products significantly faster.''

Zuken also plans to enhance Package Predictor beyond its current physical prediction status by adding real-time electrical analysis and RCL comparison reporting inside the environment. It will incorporate EMI/SI constraints into the route-ability report and provide advisements of how to achieve better route-ability with given data.

Driving Zuken's AP team is Rick Lagasca, newly appointed director of the AP Division, whose goal it is to establish Zuken's AP Solution as the standard for the industry. Leading the team is Rob Tomasek, program director for AP, Les Ammann, director of AP technology, and in Japan, Yuji Otsubo, section manager, R&D Division and Fumihiro Katagai, lead application engineer, R&D Division. The AP unit is looking to utilize its experience in AP software and product development, as well as its partnerships, to create the most advanced AP solution on the market.

``We entered the AP market only a year-and-a-half ago, and our AP solution, which includes the first radial router for any angle routing, is one of the most advanced on the market,'' said Lagasca. ``Zuken's technology partnerships with Japanese substrate manufacturers and its recent technology partnerships in the U.S. give Zuken the advantage in AP. Zuken will continue to leverage its capabilities in Japan to bring leading AP technology to the U.S market.''

Ultimately Zuken is looking to bridge the IC to package layout gap by providing an overlay system between Package Synthesizer and Package Predictor and all IC layout tools. This will allow real-time physical/electrical circuit and placement feasibility studies at the IC design level.

About Zuken

Zuken is one of the world's leading providers of professional software solutions for the design of PCB/MCM/IC packages and systems. These advanced tool sets facilitate schematic capture, placement, routing and analysis, and manufacture and test. Used by the world's top 30 electronic product manufacturers, the solutions operate under both UNIX and Microsoft Windows. Zuken is the market sector leader in Japan and has offices throughout Europe and the USA. It is a global organization employing over 1,000 people and the company is listed on Level 1 of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. For more information, visit http://www.zuken.com .