ADA Adds Analog/ Mixed-Signal Design Automation Tools to EDA Integration Alliance Partners Program; Joining the EDA IAP Flow Provides a Path to Silicon for Analog and Mixed-Signal Designs.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. & OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 2002 Analog Design Automation, Inc. (ADA Ada, city, United States Ada (ā`ə), city (1990 pop. 15,820), seat of Pontotoc co., S central Okla.; inc. 1904. It is a large cattle market and the center of a rich oil and ranch area. ) has joined the 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. Integration Alliance Partners (EDA IAP (Internet Access Provider) See ISP. IAP - Internet Access Provider ) program to provide semiconductor companies with transistor-level circuit design automation and a design flow from front-end design to silicon. ADA develops methodologies and tools for analog, mixed-signal, and high-performance digital design, based on the company's patent-pending intelligent systems algorithms. The EDA IAP Program was developed by SiliconMap LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control to deliver qualified tactical and strategic flow consultation services to customers with multi-vendor tool flows. EDA IAP serves as a clearinghouse that allows its members to ensure tool interoperability and intellectual property portability among tools within a design department. Members include integration consultants, EDA software vendors, commercial silicon foundries See foundry. , IP and design service providers, and engineering computing hardware providers. "We joined the EDA IAP to help semiconductor companies improve the process of designing chips with analog and mixed-signal circuits, and, at the same time, to improve the quality of those circuits," said Matthew Raggett, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of ADA. "Customers with high-performance designs need to focus on transistor-level precision, within their own design flows, and that's where our tools excel." "The addition of ADA to the EDA IAP will provide a major productivity enhancement for transistor-level design in the semiconductor design flow," said Pallab Chatterjee, president of SiliconMap. "Process technology is now refocusing Noun 1. refocusing - focusing again focalisation, focalization, focusing - the act of bringing into focus attention on transistor-level design and simulation to provide a suitable design for fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. . However, two factors are causing a major bottleneck in the design flow: the shortage of senior analog/mixed-signal designers and the magnitude of transistor-level simulation and manual optimization required for such things as migration of existing IP or legacy data to new processes. ADA's technology, which automates transistor sizing, is a key to breaking this bottleneck." About EDA IAP EDA IAP was created to address the most common problems designers face when using tools from disparate suppliers -- data interface and flow interoperability problems. Since EDA programs input and output data in different formats and organizations, massaging data to make the output of one program suitable for input to the next program is a constant headache. The EDA IAP promotes tool and data interoperability standards and provides designers with flows that are optimized for various EDA applications and processes. About SiliconMap SiliconMap LLC is a consulting services provider specializing in the creation of application optimized multi-vendor tool flows and tactical tapeout engineering support. The company was formed to optimally leverage the expertise of its physical designers and EDA methodology personnel who bring a collective experience base of over 900 tapeouts to their clientele. SiliconMap is committed to supplying engineering solutions that optimize tool and personnel resources, reduce time-to-market, and are based on a short-term ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). model. Additional information can be found at http://www.siliconmap.net. About Analog Design Automation Analog Design Automation, Inc. (ADA) is creating a new generation of electronic design automation (EDA) tools and methodologies that leverage intelligent systems to increase productivity in the design of analog, mixed-signal and high-performance digital integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. . The company's products enable designers to create optimal designs and capture libraries of re-useable semiconductor IP. ADA's investors include High Street Partners of Boston, Intel Capital, Royal Bank Capital Partners, and Synopsys Inc. James P. Rutt, former CEO of Network Solutions and co-founder of First Call, is chairman of the ADA board of directors. ADA is located in San Jose, Calif., and Ottawa, Canada. For more information on ADA please visit www.analogsynthesis.com. |
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