Ansoft and Synopsys Join to Provide IC/Package Co-Design & Analysis.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Design Automation Conference 2004 Booth #945 PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2004 Ansoft Corporation (Nasdaq:ANST ANST Association of Neuropsychology Students in Training ANST After Negative Skin Test ) today announced a collaboration with Synopsys, Inc., which will provide streamlined IC and package co-design and analysis design flow solutions to address the substantial challenges of developing products based on 90 nanometer and SoC (System-on-Chip) technologies. "IC packaging is now in the critical path of silicon product delivery as package I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output counts and densities continue to skyrocket. Increased functional integration, higher speed, and lower power drive the requirements for today's high-performance IC packages," said Kevin Rinebold, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, Advanced Packaging Products, Synopsys. "Ansoft and Synopsys combine to provide a unique and automated package design and analysis solution to fill this evolving need." For package designers, the ability to lay out the package and then seamlessly analyze the package interconnect structure for power and signal integrity issues is a major step forward in productivity and reliability of the end package design. The combined solution offers a winning combination of Synopsys' package design tool, Encore, and Ansoft's signal integrity analysis products, TPA (Transient Program Area) See transient area. TPA - Transient Program Area and SIwave. The new Synopsys/Ansoft design flow for package design and analysis will debut at this year's Design Automation Conference (DAC See D/A converter and discretionary access control. DAC - Digital to Analog Converter ) in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , CA in the Ansoft booth #945. With the combined tool solution offered by Synopsys and Ansoft, designers of I/O buffers, ICs and packages can now work concurrently from the same spec-sheet, utilizing a common design flow, thereby streamlining the design process, saving both time and money. "We are pleased to be partnering with the #1 player in 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. ," said Sherry Hess, VP Marketing at Ansoft. "Synopsys' leadership in design automation combined with Ansoft's physical design modeling and parasitic extraction solution delivers the integrated solution that IC and package designers require in order to stay ahead of their competition." About Ansoft Ansoft is a leading developer of high-performance electronic design automation (EDA) software. Engineers use Ansoft software to design state-of-the-art electronic products, such as cellular phones, Internet-access devices, broadband networking components and systems, 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. (ICs), printed circuit boards (PCBs), automotive electronic systems and power electronics. Ansoft markets its products worldwide through its own direct sales force and has comprehensive customer-support and training offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Asia and Europe. To learn more, please visit www.ansoft.com. |
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