ON Semiconductor Licenses Pulsic's Lyric Physical Design Framework
BRISTOL, England—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Jan. 18, 2005—
Pulsic Limited, the EDA company that delivers
shape-based, IC physical design solutions for mixed-signal, memory and
custom digital designs, today announced that it has licensed its Lyric
Physical Design Framework to ON Semiconductor, a leading provider of
data and power management semiconductors headquartered in Phoenix,
Ariz.
ON Semiconductor has licensed Lyric components for detailed
floorplanning, standard cell placement, interactive editing and
automatic routing of its next generation of mixed signal designs.
As part of the evaluation, Lyric was used to floorplan, place and
route several digital blocks in a new ON Semiconductor design. The
entire design was a first pass success; completed and taped out in
only five weeks. A parallel evaluation was undertaken against another
leading EDA vendor's tools, and Lyric proved comprehensively that it
provided superior performance, flexibility and functionality.
Peter Zdebel, ON Semiconductor's vice president and chief
technology officer (CTO), said, "As we move towards reducing die size
and mask costs, and narrowing our time to market, Lyric has already
proven its worth in helping us to achieve our design goals. The
reduction in manufacturing costs in the first six months of production
for one design will provide an immediate return on the investment in
one seat of Lyric."
Lyric has also been used to re-place and re-route another design
for ON Semiconductor's automotive group, where it achieved significant
reductions in die size. The die had previously been placed and routed
with another set of tools.
Commenting on the new customer win, Ken Roberts, chief executive
officer at Pulsic said, "Lyric proved its ability to undertake
automatic placement of standard cells and routing on a custom digital
block, taking only 10% of the time normally used by an incumbent
vendor's layout, chip placer and chip routing tools."
Lyric's unified shape-based design system has achieved significant
design wins in the mixed signal, memory and custom digital market
segments in the U.S., Europe and Asia by enabling layout designers to
achieve high productivity and reduce die sizes by up to 30%,
particularly as process geometries shrink.
About Pulsic
Pulsic provides advanced physical design solutions for complex
analog, custom, digital and mixed-signal IC and system-on-chip (SoC)
designs. The company's product suites include automatic and
interactive editing, timing closure solutions, topological routing for
power/clock and signal integrity. Pulsic was founded in January 2000
and is a privately held company headquartered in Bristol, UK. For more
information, email info@pulsic.com , telephone +44 (0)117 906 94 94 or
visit www.pulsic.com
Contact:
Public Relations for Pulsic
Nanette Collins, 617-437-1822
nanette@nvc.com
or
Pulsic Limited
Joan Knight, +44 (0)117 906 94 94
joan.knight@pulsic.com
