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Cadence Instrumental in Helping Motorola Tape out Its First Reconfigurable Compute Fabric Device
Collaboration Between Cadence and Motorola Results in Tape Out of
Highly-Sophisticated Reconfigurable Device in 130nm Technology
VELIZY, France—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Dec. 10, 2003—
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN) today announced that it
has supported Motorola in successfully delivering one of its most
complex integrated circuit designs with over 62 million transistors.
Cadence provided engineering services and a complete back-end design
flow at 130nm.
As a result of the collaboration between the two companies,
Cadence helped Motorola transition from a non-Cadence flow to a
completely new methodology based on the Cadence(R) Encounter(TM)
digital IC design platform. The new flow, targeted for the TSMC 130nm
technology, enabled Motorola to progress through an aggressive design
schedule from final netlist to tape-out within six weeks. The company
was able to bring to market the MRC6011, a highly programmable
Reconfigurable Compute Fabric (RCF) device, combining system-level
flexibility and scalability with the cost-competitive and low power
consumption characteristics of an ASIC-based device.
"To address the demanding design requirements of 130nm geometries
and the technical complexity of our 62 million transistor device,
Motorola turned to Cadence to provide one of the most advanced
back-end design flows available," said Frederic Haine, Motorola's
General Manager Networking & Computing System Group, Europe. "Using
the Encounter platform, we achieved post-layout timing closure with
remarkably little integration effort, allowing us to meet our
aggressive tape-out target. The expertise of the Cadence engineering
services team, particularly in the closing stages, was vital in
enabling us to deliver one of our most complex IC designs ever."
"One of the primary goals of the MRC6011 project was to
significantly speed up the migration of the highly skilled Motorola
design team to the Encounter platform and 130nm geometries," said
Guillaume d'Eyssautier, vice president and general manager of Cadence
Europe. "Our expertise in providing solutions for large and
highly-complex designs helped ensure the success of Motorola. Because
the Encounter platform can handle nanometre design issues,
particularly signal integrity effects, it was a critical success
factor during the design cycle."
The advanced Motorola MRC6011 RCF device, heralds in a new era in
signal processing. It is a highly powerful device suited for
MIPS-intensive, complex tasks in computationally intensive
applications such as baseband processing for 2.5G and 3G base
stations, broadband wireless access systems and signal processing for
advanced features such as Adaptive Antenna (AA) and Multi-User
Detection (MUD).
About Cadence Design Systems
Cadence (NYSE:CDN) is the world's leader in electronic design
technologies, methodology services, and design services. Cadence
solutions are used to accelerate and manage the design of
semiconductors, computer systems, networking and telecommunications
equipment, consumer electronics, and a variety of other
electronics-based products. With approximately 5,000 employees and
2002 revenues of approximately $1.3 billion, Cadence has sales
offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world. The
company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and traded on the New
York Stock Exchange under the symbol CDN. More information about the
company, its products and services is available at www.cadence.com.
Cadence and the Cadence logo are registered trademarks, and
Encounter is a trademark of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Contact:
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Andrea Huse, +49 (0)89 4563 1726
ahuse@cadence.com
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