CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
16 March 2010
Implementation Investments
Realtek Semiconductor Corporation Adopts Apache Design Solutions’ Products for Power and Reliability Sign-off
Apache Design Solutions announced that Realtek Semiconductor Corp., one of the world’s leading network and multimedia integrated circuit (IC) providers, has adopted Apache’s RedHawk and Totem platforms to speed up power design and analysis across their product lines.
Realtek designs and develops a wide range of competitive total solutions for communications networks, computer peripherals, and multimedia applications. As process technologies have gone beyond 65nm, power integrity issues have become very critical, and Realtek needed a comprehensive solution to quickly sign-off on digital and analog designs. The company selected Apache’s solutions for dynamic power, advanced low power, and EM sign-offs of their mixed-signal IC designs.
Realtek chose RedHawk-NX, a full-chip dynamic power integrity solution for IR-drop analysis and dynamic power sign-off. They also chose RedHawk-ALP to handle the ramp-up / shut-down analysis and optimization of advanced low power designs such as MTCMOS and LDO. Reliability is one of the critical design challenges for mixed-signal designs and Realtek selected Totem, a transistor-level power / ground noise analysis and verification solution, to verify the maximum EM current of a PAD and identify high EM locations on the layout of their analog IP.
“Realtek constantly strives to meet ever higher performance and yield targets,” said Realtek’s Executive Vice President Jessy Chen. “Apache’s products provide us with the performance and accuracy we need to ensure that our chips will perform as expected, while keeping our product cost competitive. In addition, Apache’s solutions integrate easily into our flow, and should we need it, their support is excellent.”
“Realtek’s ICs deliver the innovation and quality for which the company is renowned,” said Dian Yang, senior vice president and general manager at Apache. “We are delighted that they have chosen Apache’s power and noise solutions to help them optimize analog and digital power design.”
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