CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
8 October 2004
Implementation Investments
Silicon Dimensions and eSilicon Collaborate on Next Generation Design
Silicon Dimensions Inc. (SDI)T, announced an agreement with eSilicon Corporation to distribute Chip2Nite to the eSiliconT customer base. In addition, the custom chip supplier will adopt Chip2Nite into its silicon implementation flow and collaborate with Silicon Dimensions to develop new tools to meet future IC design challenges.
"Silicon Dimensions fills a sizable hole in the flow revolving around block-level design implementation, said Hao Nham, vice president and general manager of design services at eSilicon. "Chip2Nite will help to resolve the communication gap between logic and physical IC design teams reducing development cycles, improving the quality of IC designs, and lowering costs."
As IC designs move from 180nm to 130nm and below, early design implementation and feedback is critical to success. Critical design time is spent flushing out design issues by creating multiple trial netlists and physical implementation. The Chip2Nite technology allows for rapid prototyping and "what-if" analysis while also giving logic designers access to critical physical information needed to ensure success. Logic and physical designers now have a common platform to collaborate on design and resolve design closure issues.
"The access to the experience and customer base that eSilicon offers will not only put our technology to the ultimate test, but demonstrate its unique ability to change how chips are designed," said Don Zereski, CEO and president of Silicon Dimensions. "We are looking forward to working with eSilicon to create a truly new model for silicon and EDA vendor collaboration."
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