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25 March 2008

Product News

Cadence Encounter Conformal Eco Designer Improves Logic Designers' Productivity

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced immediate availability of Cadence® Encounter® Conformal® ECO Designer, a new offering from the Encounter Conformal family of products which provides functional ECO analysis and ECO generation. Almost all chip designs go through engineering change orders (ECOs) to implement late-stage design modifications due to changes in design requirements or incorrect logic function. Engineering and management recognize ECOs as a time of high stress and long hours of manual work, which lead to uncertainty in schedule, cost, and functional correctness. Encounter Conformal ECO Designer addresses these challenges by bringing automation and predictability to the ECO process. It is also part of an overall Cadence ECO offering that spans from RTL design to GDS.

"Encounter Conformal ECO Designer helps us evaluate the feasibility of engineering change orders and enables us to implement functional changes to the design very late in the design cycle," said Dinraj Shetty, director of Design Engineering at Spansion. "This product frees up valuable engineering resources and significantly reduces our ECO turnaround time."

"Encounter Conformal ECO Designer brings significant productivity and predictability to the whole ECO process and gives logic designers the ability to analyze, implement, and verify ECOs in an appropriate and accurate manner," said Andy Lin, vice president of research and development for Cadence.

Encounter Conformal ECO Designer is a key part of the Encounter digital IC design platform and a component of the Cadence Logic Design Team Solution.

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