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News Release from: Atrenta | Subject: SpyGlass OEM sponsorship model
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 August 2003
Customised analysis over the web
Atrenta has developed a novel OEM sponsorship model and web-based delivery system to enable its strategic partners to deliver sponsor-specific SpyGlass capabilities to their customers 24x7.
Atrenta has developed a novel OEM sponsorship model and web-based delivery system to enable its strategic partners to deliver sponsor-specific SpyGlass capabilities to their customers 24x7 Atrenta's flexible token-based web delivery model delivers a convenient and cost effective solution to sponsors that helps reduce design iterations with sponsors' customers, streamline integration and speed the time to silicon
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Jan 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Atrenta's SpyGlass DFT incorporates two new engines to find testability issues at register transfer level (RTL) that would normally only be identified at the gate level.
Sponsors experience enhanced adoption rate and customer loyalty while their customers receive higher quality throughput with less rework because errors are caught early in the design cycle, before RTL or netlist handoff.
A number of leading ASIC vendors have been the first to adopt this new capability from Atrenta.
They are now able to provide their specific ASIC handover tools based on SpyGlass to their customers on an as-need basis, thus reducing overall costs while delivering the industry's only predictive analyser.
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"Two important features in our ASIC development platform process are the flexibility to create our process-specific rules and the ability to deliver these to our customers as we require", said Don Friedberg, Agere Systems' Director of Design Methodologies.
"Atrenta's flexible business model and web-based delivery has been critical to the success of our program and it has been well received by our customers".
ASIC vendors take advantage of SpyGlass' in-depth analysis and powerful customisation to create RTL, DFT (design-for-test) and ERC (gate-level) analyses that are kept proprietary to their process, while their customers can then download the necessary engines and licenses from Atrenta's website.
Each strategic partner gets their own private web page for their customers to ensure privacy.
SpyGlass' built-in capabilities can be extended with customised rules that help ensure first-pass ASIC handover success.
Vendor-specific rules can easily be added to allow SpyGlass to detect potentially fatal design issues that might be difficult, if not impossible, to identify with other methods.
That's why several of Atrenta's partners insist that their customers run SpyGlass on their designs before delivering those designs for ASIC production.
Additionally, customised rules can identify areas of poor implementation, which although correct in function may lead to lower circuit performance.
Partners can use PERL or C to customise their specific rules.
Additional services are available from Atrenta to accelerate the deployment.
"By collaborating with our strategic partners to provide customised solutions for their process-specific requirements, we enable a more streamlined approach to ASIC handover", stated Dr Ajoy Bose, Atrenta Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.
"Our partners gain a competitive edge by making it easier and faster for their customers to get to silicon".
The customers of Atrenta's strategic partners get the latest SpyGlass software via Atrenta's web-based licensing and download facility.
This provides them with 24x7 worldwide access and the fastest turnaround for the most current software and licensing.
"Atrenta has embraced the worldwide web as a way to meet our partners' global design requirements", said Philip George, Atrenta's Director of Business Development.
"Atrenta has extended its innovation beyond SpyGlass by pioneering this flexible token-based licensing and web delivery method as a way to enhance the communications channel between partners and their customers".
SpyGlass is supported on Sun/Solaris 2.5- 2.8, HP-UX 10.2 and 11.0 and RedHat Linux 7.The OEM sponsorship model with token-based licensing and 24x7 web-delivery is available now.
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