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News Release from: Cadence Design Systems | Subject: Cadence Encounter Conformal ECO Designer
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 March 2008
Software smoothes late design changes
Encounter Conformal ECO Designer helps users evaluate the feasibility of engineering change orders and enables them to implement functional changes to the design very late in the design cycle
Cadence Design Systems has released Cadence Encounter Conformal ECO Designer Almost all chip designs go through engineering change orders (ECOs) to implement late-stage design modifications due to changes in design requirements or incorrect logic function
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Nov 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Engineering and management recognise ECOs as a time of high stress and long hours of manual work, which lead to uncertainty in schedule, cost and functional correctness.
Encounter Conformal ECO Designer addresses these challenges by bringing automation and predictability to the ECO process.
It is also part of an overall Cadence ECO offering that spans from RTL design to GDS.
"Encounter Conformal ECO Designer helps us evaluate the feasibility of engineering change orders and enables us to implement functional changes to the design very late in the design cycle", said Dinraj Shetty, director of Design Engineering at Spansion.
"This product frees up valuable engineering resources and significantly reduces our ECO turnaround time".
"Encounter Conformal ECO Designer brings significant productivity and predictability to the whole ECO process and gives logic designers the ability to analyse, implement and verify ECOs in an appropriate and accurate manner", said Andy Lin, Vice President of Research and Development for Cadence.
Encounter Conformal ECO Designer is a key part of the Encounter digital IC design platform and a component of the Cadence Logic Design Team Solution.
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