Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global electronic
design innovation, today announced that Fujitsu Limited has adopted the Cadence®
Encounter® Conformal® ECO Designer to cut costs and reduce design time in its
engineering change order (ECO) implementation flow.
The technology giant recently deployed the Cadence technology to tape out a
network-control large-scale integration design of 40 million gates at a
65-nanometer process.
Encounter Conformal ECO Designer
“We are very pleased with our recent success using the Encounter Conformal
ECO Designer,” said Takeo Asakawa, General Manager, LSI Development Div, in the
Next Generation Technical Computing Unit of Fujitsu. “We had to implement
several ECOs, some of them with 4,000 instances and they were very complex. I
have no doubt the technology saved us significant time and resources.”
Encounter Conformal ECO Designer can play a significant role in speeding time
to market and boosting design quality for companies seeking to narrow the
productivity and profitability gaps outlined in the EDA360 vision. The software
helps design teams implement RTL ECOs for pre- and post-mask layout. It combines
automatic ECO analysis and design netlist modification with world-class
equivalence checking to boost performance and productivity. This unique
technology combines logic equivalence checking with functional ECO analysis and
generation, design netlist modification, clock domain synchronization, and
semantics checks.
By using Encounter Conformal ECO Designer Fujitsu was able to start
implementation before functional verification was completed, cutting total
development time by months. Even engineers not familiar with logic design can
tackle ECOs to implement late-stage changes needed to improve design quality
prior to manufacturing.
“Fujitsu’s recent success with the Encounter Conformal ECO Designer is a good
example of the time-to-market and quality benefits that the right technology can
bring to the path toward Silicon Realization,” said Bassilios Petrakis, director
of product management at Cadence. “Like many of our other customers, Fujitsu was
able to exploit this technology to give itself a competitive boost.”
Source: http://www.cadence.com/