Spreadtrum Standardizes on Cadence Design Flow and Achieves One-Pass Silicon Realization for Its First 40nm Product
January 20 2011 - 8:00PM
Marketwired
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global
electronic design innovation, today announced that Spreadtrum
Communications (NASDAQ: SPRD), a leading provider of baseband and
RF processor solutions for the wireless communications market
headquartered in Shanghai, migrated to the Cadence® Silicon
Realization flow and successfully taped out its first 40-nanometer
low-power chip. The chip, a GSM/GPRS/EDGE/TD-SCDMA/HSPA mobile
phone baseband, was taped out with one-pass silicon success.
As one of the biggest Chinese fabless companies, Spreadtrum has
been seeking greater predictability and efficiencies that will lead
to a shorter time to market. By adopting Cadence-centric Silicon
Realization EDA solutions, Spreadtrum gained the advantages of time
to market.
"Time to market, power consumption, performance and cost
efficiency are some of our major concerns at Spreadtrum as we
compete in the highly competitive mobile communications market,"
said Leo Li, chairman and chief executive officer at Spreadtrum.
"We needed an EDA company that shares our vision and commitment to
make it possible to create and deliver differentiated
system-on-chip solutions. Cadence and its Silicon Realization
products were the clear choice for us. This 40-nanometer chip's
one-pass success demonstrated our ability to deliver cutting-edge
technology to the 3G communications industry and showcased the
capability of our world-class design team with an effective and
high-quality development process."
The Cadence-centric Silicon Realization EDA tools Spreadtrum
adopted include Encounter® Digital Implementation System, RTL
Compiler, Conformal® Low Power, Incisive® Enterprise Simulator,
Encounter® Test, Encounter® Timing System, Virtuoso® Custom Design,
Multi-mode Simulation, QRC Extraction, Encounter Power System and
design-for-manufacturing technologies.
"Cadence provides a recognized advantage in productivity and
profitability for mobile communication device providers with our
unique Silicon Realization offering," said Charlie Huang, senior
vice president and chief strategy officer at Cadence. "We are
gratified that Spreadtrum -- one of the leading fabless houses in
the 2G/3G communication industry -- standardized on the Cadence
flow and has already seen early success."
About Cadence Cadence enables global
electronic design innovation and plays an essential role in the
creation of today's integrated circuits and electronics. Customers
use Cadence software and hardware, methodologies, and services to
design and verify advanced semiconductors, consumer electronics,
networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems.
The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales
offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world
to serve the global electronics industry. More information about
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www.cadence.com.
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