Chameleon changes to Monterey

Chameleon Systems has purchased the entire Monterey Design Systems product line for use on its multi-million-gate streaming data processor.

Chameleon Systems has purchased the entire Monterey Design Systems product line for use on its multi-million-gate streaming data processor.

The multi-million-gate 300-400MHz chip will be implemented with a 0.13-micron eight-layer metal process.

The design makes extensive use of low power libraries in order to minimise power dissipation, which is particularly problematic on a chip of this size and speed.

"The hierarchical design planning and physical prototyping capabilities available in the Monterey products are exactly what we need for a chip of this size, complexity, and speed", stated Bill Salefski, Senior Vice President of Engineering at Chameleon.

"In order to achieve closure on timing and power for this design, we need the ability to work on both the logic design and the physical implementation simultaneously.

Physical hierarchy also allows us to work on multiple parts of the design in parallel.

Monterey gives us these abilities and is the best solution for our requirements".

Chameleon is using the Monterey products to implement a very complex SoC design.

The Monterey IC Wizard hierarchical design planner provides early feedback on die size, routability and congestion.

The Sonar physical synthesis and prototyper provides early feedback on timing and power dissipation.

In a customer-owned tooling (COT) design flow, these products allow the physical design engineer to provide feedback to the logic designer and enable both logic and physical design to advance concurrently.

The Dolphin physical implementation system completes the flow by providing GDSII tapeout capability.

"This design demonstrates the value of the Monterey solution for large, hierarchical designs, such as Chameleon's", said Dave Reed, Vice President of Marketing at Monterey.

"The Monterey hierarchical solution is designed to scale beyond 100 million gates and is particularly well-suited to companies developing advanced SoC designs using an in-house COT design flow".

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