NEW ORLEANS, Design Automation Conference, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --
The EDA (Electronic Design Automation) Consortium (San Jose, Calif.) announced
today that Philips' Nexperia(TM) silicon system design team is the recipient
of the EDA Consortium's 2002 Design Achievement Award. The Nexperia design
team, which is part of Philips' semiconductors division, received the award
for the design of a highly integrated multimedia-processing chip -- the
Nexperia-based pnx8500. J. Augusto de Oliveira, Senior Fellow and
Chief Architect of Digital Consumer Systems at Philips Semiconductors will
accept the award at the Consortium's annual luncheon at the Design Automation
Conference in New Orleans today.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020501/EDALOGO )The Nexperia-based Home Entertainment Engine pnx8500 and its successor
pnx8525 are the first instantiations of the Nexperia Digital Video Platform
(DVP). The single-chip silicon system receives, decrypts, decodes, converts
and displays multiple media streams having different data formats. The pnx8525
handles MPEG2 video, audio, and various other stream types, in compressed or
uncompressed formats, and is designed for use in Interactive Digital
Television (iDTV) and other digital connected home applications in markets
throughout the world.
Walden C. Rhines, PhD., CEO & Chairman of the Board of Mentor Graphics
Corporation and EDA Consortium Chairman, remarked, "We are pleased to
recognize Philips and the Nexperia IC design team for their achievements in
the design of a circuit for use in the worldwide consumer electronics
marketplace. Their winning design is an example of innovative electronic
design achievement that highlights the role commercial EDA tools play in
overcoming design challenges, achieving design success, improving productivity
and time-to-market."
"We are delighted to receive the Design Achievement Award for our Nexperia
based Home Entertainment Engine," said John Payne, Senior Vice President and
General Manager, Digital Consumer Systems at Philips Semiconductors. "With the
Nexperia silicon system architecture, Philips will lead the transition from
analog to digital, and will reduce costs and time to market by deploying this
highly integrated hardware and software solution. With the Nexperia based Home
Entertainment Engine pnx8500 and pnx8525 we offer integrated TV makers as well
as service providers a flexible and cost efficient solution to enrich
consumers' home entertainment experience while preserving investment with a
future proof solution."
The Winning Design Application - Interactive Consumer Digital and Video
An international hardware design team of 36 members employed several
commercial EDA tools to design the Nexperia based Home Entertainment Engine.
The circuit's design is approximately equivalent to 8-million gates with
70 clock domains and an operating speed of 200MHz. The circuit has multiple
on-chip CPUs and many additional functional units with Direct Memory Access
(DMA) capability. The CPU cores, both MIPS and TriMedia, are aided by an array
of peripheral devices. In addition the Nexperia chip has 7 analog PLLs (Phase
Locked Loops), 9 DDSs (Digital Delay Synthesizers) operating at 1.7 GHz. and
237 RAMs on board. The pnx8500 is fully testable. The larger memories and
caches include BIST (Built In Self Test).
About the Design Achievement Award
Established in 1998, the EDA Consortium's Design Achievement Award was
created to honor the innovative use of EDA tools and the companies that use
these tools to create outstanding products. EE Times and the IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society are co-sponsors. The award honors design achievement and the
vital role of EDA in developing electronic devices.
About Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
Where Electronics Begins(TM) best describes Electronic Design Automation,
the fundamental means by which electronic engineering ideas become reality.
The EDA industry provides the software and design services vital to the
creation and delivery of the world's electronic products. Virtually every
major semiconductor and electronics systems company in the world -- including
semiconductors, consumer electronics, communications, computers, automotive,
medical and aerospace -- use its tools and services. The industry employs over
20,000 people and more than 500,000 people use its tools and services.
About the EDA Consortium
Founded in 1989, the EDA Consortium is an international association of
companies engaged in the development, manufacture, and sale of electronic
design automation tools and services. The Consortium's mission is to promote
the health of the industry and does so by leading forums to discuss industry
issues, sponsoring the DAC and DATE conferences, and disseminating relevant
information such as revenue statistics through the Market Statistics Service.
The Consortium is composed of a board of directors of industry CEOs with
active committees and supporting staff.
For more information, contact EDA Consortium, 111 West Saint John Street,
Suite 220, San Jose, California 95113, USA, office 408-287-3322, fax
408-283-5283, or visit www.edac.org.
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