CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
31 August 2004
Implementation Investments
IPCore Technologies Adopts Synopsys Solution as Primary Design Flow
Synopsys, Inc. announced that IPCore Technologies Corporation, China's pioneer pure design foundry, has signed a multi-million dollar agreement to adopt Synopsys' GalaxyT Design and DiscoveryT Verification Platforms, and extensive DesignWare® intellectual property (IP) portfolio as IPCore's primary internal design flow. The tools adopted from the Galaxy Design Platform include Physical Compiler®, PrimeTime® SI, DFT CompilerT, TetraMAX®, Power CompilerT, JupiterT XT, AstroT, Star-RCXTT and HerculesT. The tools adopted from the Discovery Verification Platform include VCS®, Formality®, ESP-CV, NanoSim®, HSPICE®, CosmosT, as well as IP modeling and packaging tools VMCT and coreBuilder. Under the terms of the agreement, Synopsys Professional Services will also expand its delivery capability in China by selectively utilizing IPCore on a subcontracting basis.
The two companies worked closely together to develop comprehensive deep sub-micron design flows for silicon processes starting from 130 nanometers and below. The complete RTL-to-GDSII solution will enable IPCore to give its customers a complete, low-risk path to implementation and verification, backed by Synopsys' extensive DesignWare IP portfolio and Synopsys Professional Services.
"We chose Synopsys' tools, IP and design services in order to give our customers a comprehensive, silicon-proven, front-to-back design flow," said Jerry Lee, CEO of IPCore Technologies Corporation. "Synopsys' solutions have been successfully used for thousands of designs worldwide. This expertise is especially important as we move into the complex realm of deep submicron design."
"By working closely with a quality design foundry like IPCore Technologies, we will be able to play an increasingly important role in the development of the IC industry in China," said Chi-Foon Chan, president and chief operating officer at Synopsys. "We look forward to a long and rewarding partnership that will give IPCore and its customers a reliable path to silicon success."
The Galaxy Design Platform is an open, integrated design implementation platform with best-in-class tools and IP, enabling advanced semiconductor design. Anchored by Synopsys' semiconductor implementation tools and the open MilkywayT database, the Galaxy Design Platform incorporates consistent timing, signal integrity (SI) analysis, common libraries, delay calculation, constraints, testability, and physical verification from RTL all the way to silicon. The Galaxy Design Platform helps reduce design time, decreases integration costs and minimizes the risks inherent in advanced, complex semiconductor design.
The Discovery Verification Platform is a unified environment that provides high performance and efficiency of interaction among all platform components, including mixed-HDL simulation, mixed-signal, system-level verification, assertions, verification intellectual property, code coverage, functional coverage, testbenches and formal analysis. Combined with SystemVerilog and Synopsys' design-for-verification methodology, the Discovery Verification Platform helps designers achieve higher levels of verification productivity by contributing to first-time silicon success within required project schedules.
Synopsys' DesignWare IP enables designers to create and verify innovative, cost-effective SoCs, ASICs and FPGAs. The broad portfolio includes industry leading connectivity IP Cores and Verification IP (e.g., USB 1.1, USB 2.0, USB 2.0 PHY, USB 2.0 On-The-Go Host, USB 2.0 On-The-Go PHY, PCI, PCI-X, PCI Express, PCI Express PHY, Ethernet, I2C), AMBAT on-chip bus (logic, peripherals, verification IP), complete memory solutions (e.g., memory controllers, BIST and models), high-speed datapath components, microcontrollers (8051, 6811) and Star IP processors and DSP cores (e.g., IBM PowerPC® 440, Infineon C166TS and TriCoreT1, MIPS32T 4KET, NEC V850ET, Philips CoolFluxT DSP). For a complete directory of Synopsys IP visit: http://www.synopsys.com/ipdirectory For more information on DesignWare IP visit: http://www.designware.com or call 1-877-4BEST-IP.
IPCore Technologies is a Cayman Islands registered company with offices in Silicon Valley, U.S.A., Tokyo and Shanghai, China. It is the first Pure Design Foundry Company in China to provide One-Stop-Silicon-Solution to domestic and international IC product companies. Founded in 2001 with headquarters in Shanghai's CaoHeJing Hi-Tech Park, IPCore has strong partnerships with various wafer foundries, testing and packaging houses and global tier-one IC companies. IPCore's investor base is composed of a notable consortium of international venture capital firms including Walden International, Pacific Venture Group, 3i, Vertex, Sycamore Ventures and Pan- Pacific Venture. Please visit: http://ipcoreinc.com
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