CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
25 August 2004
Implementation Investments
MatrixOne's Synchronicity Solutions Raise Design Productivity at TransChip
MatrixOne, Inc. ( http://www.matrixone.com/ ) announced that TransChip Inc. is using MatrixOne's Synchronicity Developer and Publisher Suites to speed development through design management and reuse. TransChip is a developer of highly integrated CMOS image sensors for mobile phones. AST Ltd., the local Synchronicity representative and support center, implemented the Developer and Publisher Suite solutions at TransChip.
TransChip is taking advantage of the Synchronicity Developer SuiteT to raise the productivity of its engineers. TransChip is also using the Synchronicity Publisher SuiteT to implement and support company-wide design reuse. The Publisher Suite is the de facto standard for moving and managing designs in and between companies.
"In our multi-disciplinary design environment, we must use a robust methodology to manage our database, track changes and release our IP, both internally and externally," said Eli Assoolin, CAD and backend manager at TransChip. "The Synchronicity suite of tools gave us a good solution that incorporated all aspects of chip design and firmware, helping us to maintain excellent product quality and meet our schedules."
"To have become so successful so quickly, there are obviously many bright people working hard at TransChip," noted Paul Gibson, MatrixOne's vice-president of electronics, EMEA. "We are very pleased that our solutions have worked so well and have enabled innovators like TransChip to become even more productive."
The Synchronicity Developer Suite bundles ProjectSync®, which raises design predictability with multi-site project and issue tracking and communications, and DesignSync®, which boosts productivity by making design data available to the entire project team, no matter where they are located, in a safe and managed manner. Both tools support repeatable design best practices and so helped TransChip win their recent ISO9001:2000 quality certification.
TransChip manages all the project related files with DesignSync, including RTL, marketing materials, specs, software, board layouts and models. Since image sensors have significant analog and full custom content, TransChip also takes advantage of DesignSync DFII, which is directly integrated into the Cadence user interfaces and has special awareness of the unique Virtuoso file behaviors. With DesignSync, TransChip engineers also check finished designs directly into their Publisher Suite design reuse system. This maintains version control integrity, which makes support easier because the history of a design is more readily determinable and enables management to better judge the use and value of development efforts.
TransChip engineers use another Developer Suite tool, the Hierarchical Configuration Manager (HCM) to manage the project in the top-down, block-based manner in which they plan it. With HCM, blocks can contain blocks, release management operations can be performed on any level of the hierarchy and referenced blocks can be held in a Publisher Suite design reuse system.
The Publisher Suite is widely used for design reuse and the distribution and support of semiconductor Intellectual Property. The Publisher Suite contains the IP GearT Catalog to store and present reusable designs and the IP Gear Helpdesk and Knowledge Base as a rich support environment. For many companies, engineering costs are becoming prohibitively expensive on large, custom chip developments and massive design reuse is proving to be one of the best techniques to keep these projects profitable. The Publisher Suite design reuse infrastructure raises the productivity of TransChip engineers by enabling them to find, evaluate and securely download blocks of already complete designs through any web browser, then get the support they need to truly take advantage of the pre-existing designs.
TransChip Inc. is a developer of integrated camera solutions for mobile phones. The company develops integrated imaging solutions, which include image capture, digital image processing and compression. For more information about TransChip, please visit http://www.transchip.com
Advanced Semiconductor Technologies (AST) is the local distributor for Synchronicity products in Israel. Today, AST serves as a focal point in the Israeli market for state of the art Electronic Design Automation solutions and ASIC and FPGA Design. AST provides Turn-Key services as well as on-site support and consulting, in the areas of EDA, Configuration Management (CM), ASIC and FPGA Design. For more information visit http://www.ast.co.il
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