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News Release from: Cadence Design Systems | Subject: ARM Cortex-A8 support
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 October 2005
Design flow supports latest ARM
processor
Cadence Design Systems has developed a high-performance design flow for the new ARM Cortex-A8 processor.
Cadence Design Systems has developed a high-performance design flow for the new ARM Cortex-A8 processor This flow uses the Cadence Encounter digital IC design platform incorporating Encounter RTL Compiler synthesis, Encounter Conformal equivalence checking and the SoC Encounter RTL to GDSII system
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Nov 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Cortex-A8 customers at 90 and 65nm will be able to leverage the Encounter design flow and Cadence's extensive experience in implementing ARM technology-based SoC designs in order to minimise power, maximise performance, and tape out successful implementations ahead of their competitors.
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"We are pleased to collaborate with ARM to bring leading-edge SoC design capabilities to their Cortex-A8 partners", said Jan Willis, Senior Vice President of Industry Alliances at Cadence.
"Our joint programme combines engineering and development resources to help our mutual customers speed the completion of advanced digital-entertainment and mobile-communications products".
"This marks another milestone in our longstanding collaboration with ARM, which now spans over ten years and provides the broadest array of technology and support for ARM processor-based design".
"Our ongoing partnership with Cadence continues to produce innovative approaches to enable a faster path to our partners' successful product introductions", said Mike Inglis, Executive Vice President of Marketing at ARM.
"The capacity and optimisation of the Cadence Encounter platform, combined with the ARM Artisan Advantage-CE library for the Cortex-A8 processor, provides a complete front-to-back flow in high-performance, low-power design".
The high-performance design flow leverages the automation techniques of the Cadence Optimisation Methodology Kit for ARM processors that maximise high performance, low power, and small die size.
The collaboration will also enhance the ARM-Cadence Encounter Reference Methodology for RTL-to-GDSII synthesis, implementation, and verification of ARM processors.
The Cadence advanced design flow, support and services for ARM partners implementing very high-performance Cortex-A8 processor-based designs are now available.
Further enhancements to the ARM-Cadence Encounter Reference Methodology for other ARM processors will be available in early 2006.
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