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3 June 2004

Product News

Monterey Design Systems Transforms The Design Planning Landscape

Monterey Design Systems ( http://www.montereydesign.com ) announced a new design planning technology that automates the placement of hundreds of hard macros and reduces the die size of complex systems-on-a-chip (SoCs). The company's "AFP Technology" integrates into all major back-end design flows. AFP Technology has already been proven to reduce die size on several pre-production customer designs.

AFP Technology improves profit margins for SoCs in high volume applications, where every square millimeter of die size is critical. Recent customer projects have validated that die size depends primarily on the quality of standard cell and hard macro placement. For SoCs with many hard macros, traditional design planning methods involving manual placement or early-generation automatic block placers produce sub-optimal results, including poor utilization and larger die size. By introducing AFP Technology into the design planning process for designs with as few as 20 hard macros, Monterey customers have achieved considerable die size reductions.

Monterey's AFP Technology integrates into physical design flows from Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys, and Magma Design Automation without requiring changes to intellectual property (IP) or libraries. Similar quality of results and die size reductions have been achieved in all three major flows by AFP Technology early customers.

Monterey will showcase AFP Technology in private suite meetings at booth #2725 at the 41st Design Automation Conference (DAC) in San Diego, Calif., June 7-10, 2004. For more information, or to pre-register for a private demonstration, visit http://www.montereydesign.com

AFP technology has been implemented at multiple customer beta sites in North America, Europe and Japan. Pricing will be available when the product is formally released in the third calendar quarter of 2004.

 

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