CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
8 July 2008
Implementation Investments
Euphonic Technologies Achieves First-Pass Silicon Success With DesignWare IP for PCI Express
Synopsys, Inc. announced that Euphonic Technologies has achieved first-pass silicon success for its high-performance EGC601 Embedded Graphics Controller system-on-chip (SoC) utilizing Synopsys' DesignWare® IP for PCI Express. Euphonic selected Synopsys' DesignWare IP because it offered a comprehensive suite of digital controllers and mixed-signal PHY that met their power, feature and performance requirements. Furthermore, Euphonic benefitted from obtaining all the PCI Express IP from a single vendor and had convenient access to an experienced local technical support team, which enabled them to lower integration risk and speed time to market.
Euphonic needed an eight-lane PCI Express interface to meet the high bandwidth requirements of the EGC601 graphics controller, which supports up to five different imaging layers without intervention of the host CPU. After evaluating several IP providers, Euphonic chose Synopsys because the DesignWare IP for PCI Express exceeded the performance requirements and was extremely low in power consumption. In addition, Euphonic was impressed with the on-chip diagnostic and ATE capabilities of the PHY, which allowed them to get from initial silicon to production test within a matter of weeks. According to Euphonic, Synopsys' offering was unparalleled.
"Selecting Synopsys was definitely the right decision," said Shinji Masuda, vice president of engineering at Euphonic Technologies. "The DesignWare IP for PCI Express met our latency, power and performance requirements. Furthermore, the quality of the IP was excellent, enabling us to completely focus our engineering resources on product differentiation and achieve first-pass silicon success."
"We understand the importance of providing customers such as Euphonic Technologies with complete and compliant IP solutions that help them succeed in an aggressive market," said John Koeter, senior director of marketing for IP and Services at Synopsys. "As a leading provider of connectivity IP, we invest heavily in developing high-quality PCI Express IP that meets our customers' design requirements and reduces integration risk for their complex SoCs."
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