Silicon Motion joins the Astro fan club

Silicon Motion has selected Avant!'s Astro solution for physical design closure of large, ultra-deep-submicron SoC designs.

Silicon Motion has selected Avant!'s Astro solution for physical design closure of large, ultra-deep-submicron SoC designs.

"We were looking for a solution that would enable us not only to achieve timing closure, but also to check and fix signal integrity and antenna violations at the same time within our tight time-to-market constraints", said Richard Chang, vice-president of Hardware Engineering at Silicon Motion.

"We compared several new tools, and Astro was the only one that delivered results.

Astro enables us to produce a multi-million-gate UDSM chip with manufacturable quality while providing a twofold increase in our productivity".

"Astro offers a high-performance physical design solution with an integrated and easy-to-use user interface", added James Chan, director of VLSI design at Silicon Motion.

"This has dramatically shortened the time needed to build our highly productive physical design flow.

We are in full production with Astro".

"Astro is rapidly being adopted as the premier USDM design-closure solution", said Dr Paul Lo, president of Avant! Corp.

"Our significant research and development efforts have produced the Astro optimisation, place, and route capability that gives Avant! solid leadership for SoC physical design automation.

We are extremely happy that Silicon Motion has chosen Astro as the best solution for producing multi-million-gate UDSM designs with the highest design productivity and best silicon manufacturability".

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