Sunplus Picks Celestry for High Performance Clock Tree Synthesis
SAN JOSE, Calif. & HSIN-CHU, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 4,
2002--Celestry Design Technologies, Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) the
leading provider of Silicon Accurate Sign-off(TM) technology for the
semiconductor and electronics industry, announced today that Sunplus
Technology Company Ltd. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), a fast-growing fabless
designer of multi media, LCD controller, micro-controller and other
ICs, has adopted its ClockWise(TM) for its submicron design flows.
Celestry's ClockWise helps customers achieve better silicon
performance in hours rather than weeks with its useful skew clock tree
synthesis technology. With it, SoC designers can achieve better
performance and faster timing closure when using advanced
semiconductor processes.
"With ClockWise, we consistently see at least a 2x runtime
performance improvement and remarkable skew improvement over our
previous clock tree synthesis tool. ClockWise's plug-and-play
technology, which is more flexible for handling the complex clocking
schemes in our designs, fits well in our physical synthesis flow,"
remarked Ching-Hsiang Yang, manager, CAD Dept., Sunplus Technology
"We are very happy to see ClockWise endorsed by a fast growing
company like Sunplus and having ClockWise widely adopted throughout
Sunplus' advanced design flow methodology," remarked Bob Xu, VP of
International Sales and Operations of Celestry.
Celestry's ClockWise provides traditional zero skew as well as
useful skew clock tree synthesis, and works seamlessly with the
industry's standard place and route tools. With its useful skew
methodology, it improves the timing on critical paths, and helps
designs reach timing closure faster. Additionally, the silicon proven
technology can reduce peak power and noise from simultaneous signal
switching for longer battery life and better circuit reliability.
About Sunplus
Sunplus Technology Company Limited, which was established in 1990,
is a fabless IC design company devoted to electrical consumer
applications. Sunplus offers not only IC design but also system
solution to maximize customers' profit by differentiating each design.
Sunplus uses Intellectual Properties (IPs) such as audio/video,
micro-processor and digital signal processor technologies to develop
hundreds of products including LCD IC, micro-controller IC,
multi-media IC, Voice/Music IC and ASIC which can be applied to our
daily life. With sales of NT$3.95 billion for the first half of 2002,
Sunplus has year on year growth of 33%. For more information, please
visit Sunplus website:
About Celestry
Celestry is the leading provider of physical design products that
enable integrated circuit designers to achieve optimal performance
from semiconductor process technologies. The Company offers software
and services to electronic and semiconductor companies involved with
the design of chips that are used in networking, communication,
multimedia and computing products. Celestry Design Technologies, Inc.
is headquartered at 2560 Junction Avenue. San Jose, CA 95134, USA. For
more information visit www.celestry.com, email info@celestry.com or
call 408/451-1210.
Notes to Editors:
Acronyms and definitions
SoC: System on a Chip
Celestry, the Celestry logo, ClockWise and Silicon-Accurate
Sign-off are trademarks of Celestry Design Technologies, Inc. All
other trademarks and tradenames are the property of their respective
owners.
Contact:
Celestry Design Technologies, Inc.
Eva Chen, 408/501-2376
evac@celestry.com
www.celestry.com
