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News Release from: Chip Estimate Corp
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 October 2006
New funds to accelerate product roadmap
Chip Estimate Corp has raised US $3.5 million in expansion financing in two closings.
Chip Estimate Corp has raised US $3.5 million in expansion financing in two closings ITU Ventures, which participated in the original seed funding of the company, led this round
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 1 Oct 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Chip Estimate addresses the need of the industry for leveraging semiconductor data and design expertise at the earliest phase of design projects, before EDA flows begin", commented Jonah Schnel, Managing Partner, ITU Ventures.
"In this next stage of growth, with the development of an even tighter integration with classic EDA tools, we believe Chip Estimate will have a significant impact on cost and time to market savings for the industry".
Chip architects, those who plan chip projects and assess project viability from a technical and economic perspective, have traditionally been outside the classic EDA design loop.
Plans and specifications were unconnected from IC design flows, and optimisations of IP and architectures were left to design teams at the implementation stage of design.
With the recent announcement of InCyte Enterprise, Chip Estimate introduced the first architectural-level system that incorporates the same technology data that had previously only been used later in the flow, putting the information at the architects' fingertips and enabling accurate what-if analysis before logic design begins.
With accurate early plans now possible, driving constraints, IP, technology and architecture decisions into the implementation flow promises to significantly minimise late-stage time consuming and costly optimisation iterations.
"Our community of chip planners has grown to 9000 users who collectively have performed over 40,000 chip estimates with our systems", commented Adam Traidman, President of Chip Estimate.
"With the introduction of InCyte Enterprise and even greater accuracy in estimates, we are responding to our customers' requests for an even tighter link between the specifications our systems generate and the EDA flows they want these plans to direct".
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