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News Release from: Monterey Design Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 December 2001
Flextronics to deploy Monterey SDPD
worldwide
Monterey Design Systems has signed a multi-year multi-million-dollar agreement to provide Flextronics Semiconductor with its hierarchical System-Driven Physical Design (SDPD) methodology.
Monterey Design Systems has signed a multi-year multi-million-dollar agreement to provide Flextronics Semiconductor with access to its hierarchical System-Driven Physical Design (SDPD) methodology Monterey's SDPD solution will be used in Flextronics' IC design centres worldwide
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Monterey Design Systems describes System-Driven Physical Design as the first design methodology to enable physical chip implementation from system to GDSII tapeout of SoCs up to 100 million gates.
SDPD encompasses Monterey's full suite of physical design tools, from hierarchical design planning through tape-out.
Flextronics performed an extensive evaluation of Monterey's SDPD solution physical design products that included a complex benchmark design.
As part of the benchmark, key factors were considered, such as congestion management, accurate creation of a physical prototype, and correlation of timing results compared to Flextronics standard timing analyses.
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Fabless semiconductor company Morphics Technology has successfully completed multiple chips ranging from 5 to 15 million gates using Monterey's IC Wizard hierarchical design planner.
The results achieved included a physical prototype that was able to predict routability and timing within 4% of the final layout and tight correlation between Monterey's timing results and Flextronics' standard timing analysis.
In addition, results were achieved in a fraction of the runtime using Monterey's Sonar physical prototyping tool.
"We have been following the progress of Monterey Design for some time", stated Vig Sherrill, Vice President and General Manager of Flextronics Semiconductor.
"The convincing benchmark results, as well as the applicability of their hierarchical SDPD methodology to the broad spectrum of our design challenges, were key factors in our decision to deploy the Monterey technology across our design centres.
With the increasing complexity faced by our designers, Monterey's hierarchical methodology is a good fit for us".
"Flextronics is providing leading edge implementation of complex semiconductor products, and has been aggressive about equipping their engineers with the best available design technology", said Jacques Benkoski, President and CEO of Monterey Design Systems.
"The use of our hierarchical System-Driven Physical Design tools will enable Flextronics to dramatically simplify their design flow, reducing their cost of design while improving their ability to implement advanced IC's".
Flextronics is already working on its first design project using SDPD, which includes the Monterey IC Wizard hierarchical design planner, the Sonar physical prototyper and Dolphin physical implementation products.
Worldwide rollout of these tools to all of the Flextronics IC design centres will be completed within the next several months.
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