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4 October 2004

Financial News

Apache Achieves Record Breaking Q3 with Over 30 Percent Growth from the Previous Quarter

Apache Design Solutions announced that Q3 2004 marks the company's seventh consecutive record quarter. Each quarter has seen more than 30 percent sales growth over the previous quarter.

"As designs move towards 90nm and beyond, designers are finding that they can not address dynamic power noise by over-designing the supply networks," stated Andrew Yang, CEO of Apache. "From early prototyping to final sign-off, our foundry-certified and silicon-correlated solutions identify dynamic power noise, analyze its impact to timing, and provide fixing advisory."

Yang said that the Q3 results were well balanced, with existing customers adding quantities of licenses for worldwide deployment, new first-time customers, and a number of renewals. RedHawk-SDL licenses accounted for the majority of the revenue, addressing the growing need for dynamic power closure, especially for designs employing advanced low power techniques. NSPICE-PI licenses continued momentum in addressing global I/O SSO analysis and chip/package/board co-design. The recently announced SkyHawk power grid planning and optimization product will begin revenue shipments in Q4.

"Quarter after quarter, we continue to see an increase in worldwide adoption of RedHawk-SDL by leading semiconductor companies," said Keith Mueller, vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. "We are pleased with the growing acceptance of our solutions and the confidence that our customers have put in Apache to address the critical missing link in today's SoC power flow."

Apache's flagship RedHawk-SDL is a full-chip Vectorless DynamicT physical power integrity solution that fills the missing link for physical power flows in 130nm, 90nm, and 65nm SoC designs. Certified by TSMC's 5.0 Reference Flow and correlated with silicon measurements and SPICE, RedHawk-SDL delivers the most accurate power integrity solution on the market. It addresses dynamic power issues such as simultaneous switching outputs (SSO) for core, memory, clock, and I/O, as well as the effects of on-chip inductance, package RLC , and decoupling capacitance.

RedHawk-SDL delivers cell-based capacity with transistor-level accuracy and is the cornerstone of Apache's physical power integrity flow. It can be used early in the design flow when physical implementation decisions are being made, and throughout the entire design process. RedHawk-SDL enables designers to examine the timing impact of dynamic voltage drop on high performance SoCs, including those utilizing advanced low-power design techniques such as leakage current control, power gating, multiple voltage domains, and multiple threshold transistors.

 

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