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News Release from: Synplicity
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 18 June 2002
Synplicity set to acquire Iota's power
technology
Synplicity is set to acquire key products and core signal integrity and power analysis technology that will be used in the development of advanced synthesis tools for next-generation ASICs and SoCs.
Synplicity is set to acquire key products and core signal integrity and power analysis technology that will be used in the development of advanced synthesis tools for next-generation ASICs and complex ICs On completion of its first asset acquisition as a public company, Synplicity will own power planning and analysis technology, additional deep submicron intellectual property and products including the PowerPlanner and RealPower products from Iota Technology
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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San Jose based Iota has more than a decade of SoC design experience as well as expertise in deep submicron signal integrity and power issues.
Synplicity plans to continue to sell the stand-alone products it will acquire and apply the technology to expand its internal development efforts in advanced ASIC synthesis and design implementation products.
"Last June, Synplicity entered the ASIC synthesis market to address designer productivity and eliminate unnecessary complexity from the ASIC design flow", said Bernard Aronson, president and CEO of Synplicity.
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"Today, we are acquiring established products and core technology that we can leverage to develop innovative and differentiated next-generation ASIC synthesis products to meet the needs of our customer base.
We believe our acquisition of Iota's products and technology will accelerate our move into additional areas of ASIC design by enabling us to more easily address the increasingly painful signal integrity effects that are plaguing deep submicron SoC design".
Kenneth McElvain, Synplicity's chief technical officer added, "Our customers tell us that their number one concern in their front-end ASIC design process is the accuracy of pre-place-and-route timing estimates.
By applying Iota's technology to these problems early in the design process, we believe we can significantly improve our customers' ability to achieve rapid timing closure".
Synplicity intends to continue to sell the stand-alone power design solutions it will acquire from Iota including the PowerPlanner, RealPower and PowerRoute products.
As part of this acquisition, Synplicity also will hire the EDA development team that created the Iota products and technology.
These new employees will continue to enhance the products and work with Synplicity's ASIC synthesis design team to integrate the power routing and analysis technology into next-generation synthesis products.
Of the existing products, PowerPlanner allows interactive system-on-chip power floorplanning, power network design, reliability analysis and power grid signoff at the RTL level.
Based on the power grid, the IR drop analysis, and visual feedback from the user interface, users can design a complete power solution before and after synthesis.
RealPower provides an integrated solution that can be applied both pre-route and post-route for power grid design, IR drop and electromigration analysis for multimillion gate SoC designs.
PowerRoute is a power grid editing and routing solution designed specifically to solve the known problems with today's commercial place and route tools.
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