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2 June 2004

Implementation Investments

Mobileye Tapes out Revolutionary Vision System-on-Chip Using Monterey Physical Design Tools

Monterey Design Systems, Inc. announced that Mobileye N.V., a provider of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems to the automotive industry, has successfully implemented all major blocks of their latest system-on-chip (SoC) using Monterey's physical design tool suite. The chip-called EyeQT-combines high performance with low cost and represents a major breakthrough in vision technology that is expected to transform the market for driver assistance systems.

Mobileye's mission is to develop automated, on-board driver assistance systems that can be made available to every driver. With Monterey's Calypso silicon virtual prototyping and Dolphin physical implementation systems, Mobileye was able to generate dense and compact block designs for its highly-complex EyeQT technology. This enabled Mobileye to produce a smaller chip with a very attractive price.

Mobileye's ASIC design incorporates a system-on-chip solution (SoC) with proprietary high data bandwidth design and technological-specific silicon cores running at a 120 MHz clock cycle for achieving computing power comparable to two Pentium 4s running at 2GHz.

"We are very pleased with the results that we achieved with the Monterey solution," said Ziv Aviram CEO of Mobileye. "Monterey has provided us with a fully integrated design flow from prototyping through GDS with excellent performance and turn-around times for our large block designs. In particular, Monterey enabled us to achieve maximum performance while minimizing power consumption and optimizing die size."

The combination of physical design tools from Monterey and design expertise from Avnet Israel (AAI) enabled Mobileye to optimize block size and complete the physical implementation in record time.

Based in Mountain View, California, and with offices in major electronics markets worldwide, Monterey Design Systems Inc. provides software to enable the design of today's most demanding integrated circuits (ICs). Global electronics giants such as ST Microelectronics, Toshiba Corporation, NEC Electronics, and Zoran Corporation have been taping out chips using Monterey tools for over four years.

Monterey partners with other leading EDA companies, such as Cadence and Synopsys to ensure interoperability in all existing design flows. Founded in 1997, and with 100 employees worldwide, Monterey is one of the largest privately held companies in the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry. To learn more, visit http://www.montereydesign.com

Mobileye N.V. was incorporated in May 1999 for the purpose of developing and marketing advanced products in the surging market of automated on-board driver assistant systems. The company has developed core technologies in the areas of algorithms and ASIC architecture design for monocular video processing supporting applications of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), Lane Departure Warning (LDW), Lane Change Assist and Blind Spot Detection (LCA/BSD), Vision-Radar sensor fusion for Pre-Crash, Pedestrian Protection and in-cabin Occupant Detection.

Mobileye has its headquarters in The Netherlands with R&D in Israel and satellite offices in the U.S., Cyprus, Switzerland and Japan. Visit http://www.mobileye.com

 

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