Agere Systems Adopts Sigrity's Unified Package Designer for Single and Multi-die Package Design; Sigrity Delivers Enabling Functionality to Meet the Challenges of Advanced Packaging.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- Sigrity, Inc., the market leader in signal and power integrity software solutions, today announced that Agere Systems Agere Systems Inc. was an integrated circuit components company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Effective April 2, 2007, it was merged into LSI Corporation. , a global leader in semiconductors for storage, wireless data and enterprise networks, has adopted Unified Package Designer (UPD UPD Update UPD University Police Department UPD University of the Philippines-Diliman UPD Uniparental Disomy UPD Unión Progreso y Democracia (Spanish: Union, Progress and Democracy, political party) UPD Union for the Public Domain ) for use in the design of its advanced semiconductor packages. Agere chose UPD due to the strength of its advanced feature set to support their complex requirements, primarily related to single and multi-die wire-bonded designs. UPD supports a number of advanced package configurations including: stacked-die, flip chip A chip packaging technique in which the active area of the chip is "flipped over" facing downward. Instead of facing up and bonded to the package leads with wires from the outside edges of the chip, any surface area of the flip chip can be used for interconnection, which is typically done , chip scale, and system-in-package (SiP). "Given our long-term Long-term Three or more years. In the context of accounting, more than 1 year. long-term 1. Of or relating to a gain or loss in the value of a security that has been held over a specific length of time. Compare short-term. success with the Encore product and its technology acquisition by Sigrity, we felt it advantageous to migrate to UPD to maintain support continuity and access to its evolving feature set," said Rick Sergi, Manager of the IC Package Design Group at Agere Systems. "We are very encouraged by Sigrity's commitment to provide new and enabling functionality for advanced package design and to add these to the solid foundation already existing in the core product. In addition, we look forward to the introduction of advanced, cross-domain capabilities that Sigrity's expertise in the area of co-design Co-Design is a philosophy in the American pragmatist tradition, which argues that all people have different ideals and perspectives and that any design process needs to deal with this. methodologies promises." "Agere's decision to migrate to UPD signifies the importance of continued support and maintenance while developing some very sophisticated packages," said Dr. Jiayuan Fang, President of Sigrity. "We're very pleased Agere has selected UPD and look forward to their guidance and direction as we develop advanced capabilities for stacked Stacked is an American television sitcom that premiered on Fox on April 13, 2005. On May 18, 2006, Stacked was cancelled, leaving five episodes unaired in the United States. The last episode aired on January 11, 2006. and multi-die package design." About Sigrity Sigrity, Inc., a privately held U.S. company incorporated in 1998, delivers advanced software solutions for package physical design and for analyzing power and signal integrity in chips, packages and printed circuit boards. Sigrity's patented electrical analysis methodologies run orders of magnitude faster than general-purpose electromagnetic electromagnetic /elec·tro·mag·net·ic/ (-mag-net´ik) involving both electricity and magnetism. electromagnetic pertaining to or emanating from electromagnetism. tools, helping leading companies in the semiconductor, computer, graphics, communications and networking industries ensure high performance and reduce time to market. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with direct sales and global distribution through worldwide representatives. For more information about how to ensure operational designs by using Sigrity's package physical design and power and signal integrity analysis solutions, please visit: http://www.sigrity.com. |
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