Sanyo turns to Avant! for fine-geometry design

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Apr 12, 2001

Sanyo Electric has purchased additional Avant! Corporation SinglePass design automation tools for its current and next generation SoC designs.

Sanyo Electric has purchased additional Avant! Corporation SinglePass design automation tools for its current and next generation SoC designs.

The multimillion-dollar contract enables Sanyo Electric with IC development at 0.18 and 0.13-micron process geometries.

Significant Milkyway-based, SinglePass flow capabilities including Apollo-II, for very deep-submicron (VDSM) place-and-route; Saturn for VDSM timing and logic optimisation; Mars-Rail for power, IR-drop, and EM driven analysis and optimisation; and Star-RCXT for parasitic extraction and analysis are now available for Sanyo's design teams.

Additionally, existing SinglePass capabilities at Sanyo including Hercules-II for layout verification and Star-Sim for high-performance, high-capacity circuit simulation are included.

With Milkyway as the backbone for the SinglePass flow, powerful techniques for incremental design are enabled by sharing of algorithms and data across applications.

Milkyway and the SinglePass flow combine to enable the industry's most advanced solution for reducing time-to-market.

"Avant!'s place-and-route tools are valued for next generation System LSI Design with under 0.18 and 0.13-micron design rules.

We entered this contract based on Avant!'s great technological capability", said Fumihiro Dasai, general manager of System LSI division, System LSI department, Semiconductor Company, Sanyo Electric.

SinglePass is Avant!'s proprietary RTL to Silicon flow that delivers the fastest time-to-market for differentiated silicon at very deep submicron (VDSM) process geometries.

Avant! pioneered the SinglePass solution in early 1998.

The Milkyway-based, SinglePass flow has achieved tremendous momentum and significant support from all customers, worldwide foundries and major ASIC vendors over the past 12 months.

SinglePass ensures rapid convergence of key design parameters, such as timing, area, power, and noise, while providing accurate VDSM silicon modeling, full chip analysis and optimization capabilities to generate silicon differentiated in terms of improved performance, density, and yield.