``Total COT'' Program Takes the Risk Out of COT Physical Design.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 2002 Monterey pulls together leading vendors of EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. tools, libraries, SIP, design services, foundries, and compute platforms to reduce risk and lower cost of adoption for COT physical designers Monterey Design Systems announced today the roll out of a cooperative program The Cooperative Program is a unified funds collection program of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) designed to support SBC seminaries, mission agencies and denominational ministries. aimed at reducing the cost of adoption for IC designers seeking to perform in-house physical implementation of their chips. Leading providers of EDA tools, libraries, semiconductor intellectual property (SIP), foundries, design services, and compute platforms are working together to reduce the time and effort required to establish an in-house customer-owned tooling (COT) flow. "We have already benefited from cooperative efforts between the members of the Total COT program," said Gideon Paul, vice-president of research and development at TeraChip. "We consider our in-house COT flow to be an integral part of our competitive strategy. Design issues that require interaction between the logical and physical design teams used to take days or weeks to resolve. Having the physical design team in-house allows us to resolve these issues in hours or even minutes." "Chip designers today are adopting in-house COT design flows for a number of reasons -- performance, cost, and turnaround time (1) In batch processing, the time it takes to receive finished reports after submission of documents or files for processing. In an online environment, turnaround time is the same as response time. ," said Tom Kozas, director of business development at Monterey Design Systems. "The Total COT program allows customers to reap these advantages while reducing the cost and risk associated with developing and implementing a COT physical design flow." Developing and implementing a production physical design flow can be a very costly and time-consuming process. The Total COT program reduces ramp-up time and cost by bringing together component technologies to form a comprehensive solution. The compatibility of these component technologies is pre-validated by completing reference designs using specific EDA tools, libraries, SIP, and foundry processes on specific compute platforms. This ensures working solutions and minimizes the risk of adopting COT physical design flows. Cooperating companies in the program include ARC International This article is about the publicly traded processor company. For the privately held French housewares company of the same name, see ARC International (household). , Artisan Components, Inc., Astek Corp., Genesys Testware, GoFabless.com, Monterey Design Systems, Inc., Nassda Corp., Red Hat, Inc., Synplicity, Inc., Tower Semiconductor, Ltd., Verplex Systems, Inc., and Virtual Silicon Technology, Inc. See what these companies are saying about the Total COT program at http://www.TotalCOT.com. About Monterey Design Systems Monterey Design Systems provides electronic design automation software that enables integrated circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for designers to take their circuits from completed logic design to manufacturing ready output. Built to handle the most demanding semiconductor process requirements, the company's products -- IC Wizard(TM) hierarchical design planner, Sonar(TM) physical prototyper, and Dolphin(R) physical implementation system -- combine to provide the most streamlined physical design flow on the market. Monterey Design Systems is privately held and partners with other leading EDA companies, such as Cadence (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. - news) and Synopsys (Nasdaq:SNPS SNPS Space Nuclear Power System - news), to ensure interoperability in all existing design flows. Key customers include LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic, STMicroelectronics, Fujitsu Limited, Flextronics Semiconductor, and NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Electronics. Monterey Design Systems is located at 894 Ross Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1443, tel: 408/747-7370, fax: 408/747-7377, http://www.montereydesign.com. Note to Editors: Monterey, Monterey Design Systems, Dolphin and System-Driven Physical Design are registered trademarks and IC Wizard and Sonar are trademarks of Monterey Design Systems. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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