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News Release from: Avant! Corporation
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 November 2001
Paion chooses Astro for SoC design
closure
Paion Co has selected the Astro physical optimisation, placement and routing system from Avant!, as its design automation solution to achieve rapid design closure for SoC designs.
Paion Co has selected the Astro physical optimisation, placement and routing system from Avant!, as its design automation solution to achieve rapid design closure for SoC designs "Our state-of-the-art Ethernet switch chipsets demand the best-in-class design tools for design success in an extremely tight time-to-market arena
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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After seeing the Astro tool's superior capabilities compared to other available physical design tools in terms of design performance, turn around time and memory usage, we are excited and confident that Astro is the solution we have looked for", said Dr Chong-Min Kyung, chief technical officer (CTO) at Paion Co and a renowned professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
"The ease of using Astro supported by Avant!'s Milkyway-based, SinglePass-SoC design flow will benefit us with design productivity as well".
Astro is rapidly being adopted as the premier ultra-deep-submicron (UDSM) design closure solution.
Two key breakthrough technologies, PhySiSys technology and Milkyway-DUO architecture enable Astro to concurrently address extreme demands of UDSM design including timing, clock, signal integrity, power integrity, die size and yield through highly efficient processes, resulting in complete design closure in a faster, easier-to-use and more memory-efficient way.
Compared with Apollo-II, Astro achieves 10% faster chip speed, up to 3X faster runtime and 50% reduction in memory usage.
"Astro is breakthrough technology within Avant!'s Milkyway-based, SinglePass-SoC design flow that enables our customers to quickly achieve design closure in the largest SoC designs", said Dr Paul Lo, president at Avant! Corp.
"Paion's selection of Astro for its SoC design flow affirms Avant!'s leadership for advanced, UDSM design closure".
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