CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
1 December 2004
Implementation Investments
Azul Implements High-Speed Chip with Cadence Encounter
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that fabless design house Azul Systems has successfully implemented a high-density, high-speed design using the Cadence® EncounterT digital IC platform and RTL Compiler. With the Encounter flow, Azul minimized its risks in timing closure, power management, signal integrity and design for manufacturability.
To realize top quality of silicon (QoS), Azul leveraged the leading technologies of the Encounter platform, including the Cadence RTL Compiler synthesis and CeltICT signal integrity tools. The design was targeted to a leading edge process from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). Azul achieved maximized QoS through improved area, performance and power after wires. Coupled with direct support from Cadence, Azul was able to take advantage of an extremely fast route to successful silicon.
"We used the Cadence Encounter flow with standard cell libraries from TSMC to design a high performance chip with multiple levels of hierarchy," said Scott Sellers, vice president of Hardware Engineering, CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems. "Utilizing CeltIC provided us an advanced signal integrity analysis capability. Coupled with RTL Compiler's concurrent global synthesis capabilities, this helped us achieve our aggressive frequency target. Working with Cadence gives us access to a preeminent design flow, leading edge tools and foundry support for our nanometer design."
"Azul's successful deployment of the Encounter platform was another example of our open industry collaboration," said Wei-Jin Dai, platform vice president, digital IC implementation for Cadence. "Through optimization of the TSMC in-house library technology data with the Encounter platform, and as a full-line distributor of TSMC in-house libraries, we are able to provide customers such as Azul easy access to top design automation technology and foundry expertise to meet their most pressing nanometer design challenges."
Azul Systems is introducing the industry's first network attached processing solution designed to unbound compute resources for Java and J2EE platform-based enterprise applications. Azul compute appliances eliminate capacity planning at the application level and much of the cost and complexity associated with the conventional delivery of computing resources. More information on Azul Systems can be found at http://www.azulsystems.com .
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