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10 December 2009

Implementation Investments

Cosmic Circuits Adopts Cadence Virtuoso 6.1 for Complex Analog and Mixed-Signal Designs

 

Cadence Design Systems (I) Pvt Ltd., a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., announced that Cosmic Circuits, a leading provider of differentiated analog IP cores, has adopted the Cadence® Virtuoso® IC 6.1 custom design platform. After extensive and rigorous testing, Cosmic selected Virtuoso IC 6.1 for its complex analog and mixed-signal layout flow, and immediately gained 30 percent improvement in productivity and turnaround time over its previous flow.

Cosmic Circuits successfully deployed Virtuoso technology in full production for its leading-edge analog/mixed-signal IP cores targeting consumer applications. These advanced features include automation to accelerate custom block authoring, as well as Virtuoso space-based routing technology, which automatically comprehends and enforces advanced process and design-rule compliance during interactive routing.

“We were looking for a next-generation technology that could help us with designing correct-by-construction layouts efficiently, thereby minimizing overall design cycle time. We achieved this by using Virtuoso IC 6.1, boosting our efficiencies further. This platform looks very promising and our designers experienced at least 30% improvements, even while ramping-up quickly on this new technology. Its enhanced productivity features, ease of use, and the support we received from Cadence effectively complemented our internal design processes,” said C. Srinivasan, vice president of engineering, Cosmic Circuits. “By deploying the IC 6.1 platform we were able to increase productivity of the layout engineers, thereby saving time when thoroughly verifying designs prior to tapeout,” he added.

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