CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
3 May 2010
Implementation Investments
VIA’s Centaur Achieves Significant Benefits Using Cadence Virtuoso Space-Based Router at 65 Nanometers
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. a global leader in EDA360, announced that VIA Technology’s microprocessor subsidiary, Centaur Technology, achieved significant quality and time-to-market benefits by using the Cadence® Virtuoso® Space-Based Router on its latest set of processors. Centaur used the Cadence router to help design its new 65-nanometer Nano 3000 Series processors, designed to bring enhanced digital media performance and lower power consumption to Windows 7 notebook and desktop PC markets. Centaur adopted the Space-Based Router for 65-nanometer custom datapath designs and standard cell routing.
“Compared to our previous routing solution, the Cadence Space-Based Router provided dramatic benefits in four areas: automation, throughput, density and reduced design rule checker (DRC) count,” said Beth Longwell of Centaur Technology. “For example, we cut our routing cycle time in half, and block densities were increased up to 25 percent while meeting clock route requirements.”
The Virtuoso Space-Based Router helps designers achieve shorter time to convergence, better quality of silicon, and differentiated products for consumer and wireless markets. Its high capacity easily handles flat and hierarchical data for 250,000 net designs, while its high-performance, multi-threaded implementation accelerates completion of the largest designs. The hierarchical, 3-D space-based architecture enables accurate modeling, manipulation and checking of sophisticated geometries and constraints for sub-65-nanometer interconnect design closure. And its signoff-quality advanced design-rule interconnect checking system delivers correct-by-construction design closure.
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