NEC Electronics and Cadence Announce Encounter Platform to Support NEC Electronics' ISSP Structured ASIC Platform
December 10 2003 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
NEC Electronics and Cadence Announce Encounter Platform to Support
NEC Electronics' ISSP Structured ASIC Platform Customers Using
Industry-Leading Structured ASIC Platform Will See Faster Design
Turnaround With Support of Popular IC Design System Calif., Dec. 10
/PRNewswire/ -- NEC Electronics Corp. with its global affiliates
and Cadence(R) Design Systems Inc. today announced that the NEC
Electronics' Instant Silicon Solution Platform(TM) (ISSP(TM))
family of structured ASICs will be supported by Cadence's
Encounter(TM) digital IC design platform. When used in the back end
of the ISSP design flow, Encounter can reduce design turnaround
time by up to 50 percent compared to conventional design flows,
which means ISSP customers can bring products to market much more
quickly. NEC Electronics' ISSP devices provide a cost-effective,
high-function, easy-to-design, fast turnaround ASIC architecture
ideal for designs requiring low- to mid-range production volumes.
Customers using ISSP provide NEC Electronics or a certified design
house participating in NEC Electronics' ISSP Open Alliance Program
with a netlist of the IC design. As a result of today's
announcement, NEC Electronics or the design house can then complete
the remainder of the design flow in a greatly expedited manner.
"For the continued success of our ISSP products, it is important
for NEC Electronics to work with leading EDA tool vendors to ensure
that their products support our platform," said Dr. Hitoshi
Yoshizawa, general manager, 3rd custom LSI division, NEC
Electronics. "Cadence is recognized worldwide as a top supplier of
electronic design technologies, which made our decision to use the
Encounter design flow an easy one. Additionally, Encounter's
NanoRoute engine helped deliver excellent routing results while
guaranteeing signal integrity." "We are very pleased with the
outcome of our integration activity with NEC Electronics," said
Lavi Lev, executive vice president and general manager of Cadence's
IC business unit. "ISSP is an important new silicon platform in the
ASIC marketplace, and its core characteristics of high performance
and short turnaround time are a synergistic match with the
characteristics of our Encounter platform. We are particularly
pleased that NEC Electronics now has a common implementation
platform between its standard ASIC and ISSP offerings, as this
further enhances the efficiency of its design organization." About
ISSP The ISSP architecture was designed to serve the growing number
of applications that require higher complexity and performance than
an FPGA but cannot bear the high development costs associated with
cell-based ASICs. Each NEC Electronics ISSP design begins with a
prefabricated master composed of an array of complex multi-gates,
embedded IP cores, built-in test circuits, clock domains and power
lines. The upper metal layers are easily and quickly placed, routed
and fabricated to satisfy the unique requirements of each
individual design. ISSP-based products consume much less power than
a comparable FPGA and also have lower NRE costs than cell-based
ASIC devices. About Encounter for ISSP The Encounter platform is a
new-generation IC implementation system used for completing
large-scale system-on-chip (SoC) designs within short, predictable
development cycles, from synthesis and silicon virtual prototyping
through final chip implementation. ISSP support in Encounter allows
fast, full-chip timing closure with integrated SI-aware routing.
About Cadence Cadence is the largest supplier of electronic design
technologies, methodology services, and design services. Cadence
solutions are used to accelerate and manage the design of
semiconductors, computer systems, networking and telecommunications
equipment, consumer electronics, and a variety of other
electronics-based products. With approximately 5,000 employees and
2002 revenues of approximately $1.3 billion, Cadence has sales
offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world.
The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and traded on the
New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CDN. More information
about the company, its products and services is available at
http://www.cadence.com/. About NEC Electronics NEC Electronics
Corporation (TSE:6723) specializes in semiconductor products
encompassing advanced technology solutions for the high-end
computing and broadband networking markets, system solutions for
the mobile handsets, PC peripherals, automotive and digital
consumer markets, and platform solutions for a wide range of
customer applications. NEC Electronics Corporation has 24
subsidiaries worldwide including NEC Electronics America, Inc. and
NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH. In addition to marketing, selling
and supporting NEC Electronics products to customers in their
respective regions, NEC Electronics America and NEC Electronics
Europe also operate local manufacturing facilities in Roseville,
California, and Ballivor, Ireland, respectively. Additionally, NEC
Electronics America and NEC Electronics Europe are the sales and
marketing channels for NEC AM-LCD and PDP modules in their
individual countries. For additional information about NEC
Electronics worldwide, visit http://www.necel.com/. NOTE: Instant
Silicon Solution Platform, ISSP and NEC Electronics are either
trademarks or registered trademarks of NEC Electronics Corporation
in the United States and/or other countries. Cadence and SoC
Encounter are registered trademarks of Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
in the U.S. and other countries. All other names mentioned herein
are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their owners.
DATASOURCE: NEC Electronics Corporation CONTACT: Japan, Seiko
Yabuuchi of NEC Electronics Corp., +81-44-435-1664, or ; or United
States, Denise Viereck Garibaldi of NEC Electronics America, Inc.,
+1-408-588-6620, or ; or Europe, Oliver Luettgen of NEC Electronics
(Europe)GmbH, +49-211-6503-469, or ; or Carolyn Robinson of Hoffman
Agency, +1-408-975-3065, or , for Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Web
site: http://www.cadence.com/ Web site: http://www.necel.com/
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