Giga Scale IC Announces Widespread Adoption of InCyte Chip Estimation Software
CUPERTINO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- Jul 19, 2005 --
Giga Scale Integration Corporation (Giga
Scale IC®) announced today that more than 2000 electronic design
engineers and architects have registered at ChipEstimate.com to download
the InCyte™ chip estimation tool. The ChipEstimate.com site, launched
just over five months ago on February 7, provides the IC design community
with easy, rapid access to InCyte. InCyte is a comprehensive electronic
design automation tool that delivers fast and accurate chip estimates in
the earliest stages of the design flow.
InCyte facilitates the rapid and accurate estimation of chip cost, yield,
die size, power and leakage, to within five to ten percent accuracy of
final silicon, and enables users to make architectural and economic
comparisons by visualizing designs across various technology nodes, process
variants and IP options. The no-cost version of InCyte currently available
at ChipEstimate.com may be upgraded to include chip estimations specific to
individual foundries and Intellectual Property (IP) vendors' datasets. Also
available as an InCyte upgrade, the InCyte IC Economic Analysis Engine
provides users with accurate estimations of final packaged chip cost. The
engine draws upon industry average silicon wafer pricing, defect density,
test & assembly pricing, and package pricing data to calculate reliable and
realistic IC cost forecasts.
"The momentum behind ChipEstimate.com is simultaneously staggering and
encouraging," said Adam Traidman, president of Giga Scale IC. "With dozens
of users continuing to register daily, and thousands of designs estimated
to date, the InCyte community is growing by leaps and bounds. We are
confident in interpreting this strong and sustained interest as proof of
the need for chip estimation and architectural analysis software for the
electronics design community."
InCyte Availability and Upgrade Options
A free, time-unlimited version of InCyte is currently available for
download at www.ChipEstimate.com. Upgrades from the downloadable version to
a subscription version provide access to IP vendor and foundry specific
technology data for increased estimation accuracy, as well as access to the
IC Economic Analysis Engine, which accurately calculates final packaged
chip cost. Detailed descriptions of these and other upgrade options may be
found at www.ChipEstimate.com. Upgrades begin at $1,500 per month for a
single user license.
About Giga Scale IC & ChipEstimate.com
Giga Scale IC launched ChipEstimate.com to provide designers with
upgradeable software that estimates design costs early in the design cycle.
InCyte users can estimate design specifications such as die size, yield,
power, leakage, and cost, and also perform comparison and tradeoff analysis
to minimize cost, reduce risk, and speed time to market.
Giga Scale IC is located at: 10050 North Wolfe Road, Suite SW1-266,
Cupertino, Calif. 95014. Telephone: (408) 255-0444. Facsimile:
(408) 255-0344. Email: Email Contact.
Giga Scale Integration Corporation, Giga Scale IC and InCyte are trademarks
of Giga Scale Integration Corporation. Giga Scale IC acknowledges
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respective products and services.
Press Contact:
Georgia Marszalek
ValleyPR for Giga Scale IC
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