Monterey supports STMicroelectronics

Monterey Design Systems has signed an agreement to support the use of its System-Driven Physical Design solution by various STMicroelectronics design centres.

Monterey Design Systems has signed an agreement with STMicroelectronics to support the use of its System-Driven Physical Design (SDPD) solution by ST Central R and D and the Consumer and Microcontrollers Groups in their design centres.

The use of Monterey SDPD on production tape outs has delivered major benefits in terms of productivity and design capacity.

ST Central R and D recently completed the first 0.13-micron design using SDPD, demonstrating the suitability of the solution for this new technology.

"The improvements in designer productivity and turnaround time that we achieved with Montereyûs products were very compelling, so we decided to extend the availability of the Monterey solution to more of our customers", said Philippe Magarshack, Group Vice President for Design Automation Central R and D at STMicroelectronics.

"The results that we achieved in 0.13 micron with the Monterey solution demonstrated to us the productivity gain thanks to streamlining our design flow.

Based on these results, the decision to expand the use Monterey was very straightforward", continued Magarshack.

"We have seen significant value from IC Wizard, having applied Monterey tools on production designs, including a five million gate digital television controller, a cable modem, and a set-top box controller", said Jean-Marc Chateau, Director of Design, Consumer and Microcontroller Groups, STMicroelectronics.

"Montereyûs strengths in hierarchical design methodologies make them an ideal fit for the digital consumer chips that represent a substantial part of our product offering.

Sonar, IC Wizard and Dolphin are the powerful combination enabling us to make a major productivity jump for 0.13um designs and below".

"Using the automatic floorplanning features of IC Wizard, we can create a design plan in just a few days where it used to take several weeks of manual work to develop a workable chip-level plan", said Francois Remond, Design Methodologies Manager for STMicroelectronics Set Top Box Division.

"IC Wizard has become an integral part of our design flow for complex hierarchical SoC design".

"This agreement is an important milestone in Monterey's ongoing partnership with STMicroelectronics", said Maria Adolf, vice-president of European operations at Monterey.

"Although we have already witnessed great benefits from ST use of Monterey products, we believe that we have barely scratched the surface and look forward to continuing our work with ST to fully realise the power of the SDPD hierarchical design solution".

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