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Sanyo Achieves Production Design Success for Digital Consumer Product with Cadence Encounter RTL Compiler
Cadence Synthesis Reduces Production Cost with Improved
Speed, Area and Power on Critical Design
YOKOHAMA, Japan & SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Jan. 26, 2005—
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN)(Nasdaq:CDN) today
announced that Sanyo has achieved an important production tapeout with
the Cadence(R) Encounter(TM) digital IC design platform, including RTL
Compiler synthesis. Encounter RTL Compiler helped decrease power
consumption of an important block of Sanyo's chip by 10 percent, while
maintaining critical performance requirements. RTL Compiler shrunk the
chip's area significantly over the size achieved by competitive
solutions.
Sanyo applied Encounter RTL Compiler to a design-critical block
for high-end graphics processing. This was integrated into an ASIC
chip at the heart of Sanyo's new digital consumer product.
"We chose Encounter RTL Compiler to tape out this important new
chip because it provided us with better area and power that couldn't
be attained using our previous synthesis solution," said Dr. Hideki
Yamauchi, Materials and Devices Development Center BU, Sanyo Electric
Co., Ltd. "Besides the improvements we realized in speed, area and
power, we appreciated the ease with which we were able to integrate
Encounter RTL Compiler into our existing production environment."
Interconnect related parameters, design rules and failure
mechanisms dominate nanometer designs. Physical properties of designs
at and below 130 nanometers require a metric for speed, area, power
and test. Quality of Silicon (QoS) is a metric that measures a
design's physical characteristics -- in terms of performance, area and
power -- with wires. Encounter RTL Compiler synthesis uses a unique
set of global-focus synthesis technologies that offer chip designers
the highest QoS in less time, and with less effort.
"We are very excited about the unique technology that Encounter
RTL Compiler has helped further the success of this important Japanese
customer," said Dr. Chi-Ping Hsu, corporate vice president at Cadence.
"Encounter RTL Compiler is now being successfully used in production
by systems companies throughout the world to create better quality of
designs within a few weeks of product installation."
About Cadence
Cadence is the world's largest supplier of electronic design
technologies and engineering services. Cadence products and services
are used to accelerate and manage the design of semiconductors,
computer systems, networking equipment, telecommunications equipment,
consumer electronics, and other electronics based products. With
approximately 4,850 employees and 2003 revenues of approximately $1.1
billion, Cadence has sales offices, design centers, and research
facilities around the world. The company is headquartered in San Jose,
Calif., and trades on both the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq
under the symbol CDN. More information 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.
Judy Erkanat, 408-894-2302
jerkanat@cadence.com
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