Apache Closes a Record Fourth Quarter with Continued Profitability.Increased Demand for Power Sign-off and Adoption of New Products Drives Growth MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Apache Design Solutions, the leader in power signoff and complete silicon integrity platform solutions for system-on-chip (SoC) designs, today announced that the company has achieved its 16th consecutive quarter of record bookings and revenue, with increasing profitability. By adding two new top-tier customers in Q4, Apache's power and noise solutions are now adopted by all of the top 5 semiconductor and top 5 fabless semiconductor companies. Contributions to Apache's Q4 business growth came from multiple products including RedHawk-EV for dynamic power integrity, RedHawk-LP for low-power design management, and PsiWinder for full-chip clock jitter A flicker or fluctuation in a transmission signal or display image. The term is used in several ways, but it always refers to some offset of time and space from the norm. For example, in a network transmission, jitter would be a bit arriving either ahead or behind a standard clock cycle analysis. "We are pleased that our customers continue to place their trust in our solutions and have selected Apache even without benchmarks," stated Craig Shirley Craig Shirley is President and CEO of Shirley & Banister Public Affairs, the public relations, marketing, and government affairs firm he originally founded in 1984. The firm has become internationally recognized over the years among public opinion leaders and the national media with , vice president of worldwide sales at Apache. "This demonstrates that Apache is addressing the market's critical silicon integrity needs and delivering worldwide post-sales support with dedicated expertise. Our leading edge technologies and world class support team will continue to drive our growth into 2007." "In 2006, we saw dynamic power and low power become a sign-off requirement for the majority of leading semiconductor and fabless semiconductor companies," stated Andrew Yang, 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 Apache. "This requirement along with PsiWinder's ability to address our customer's immediate need for a clock jitter analysis tool that correlates with silicon measurement drove our growth in 2006. Going into 2007, we are very excited about our roadmap for complete silicon integrity platform solution that leverages our leadership position in power sign-off." About RedHawk RedHawk is a full-chip Vectorless Dynamic[TM] physical power integrity solution for SoC power closure sign-off of 130nm, 90nm, and 65nm designs. Correlated with silicon measurements and SPICE, RedHawk addresses dynamic power issues such as simultaneous switching output (SSO See single sign-on and CSO. SSO - single sign-on ) for core, memory, clock, and 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 , as well as effects of on-chip inductance, package RLC RLC Residual lung capacity , and decoupling Decoupling The occurrence of returns on asset classes diverging from their normal pattern of correlation. Notes: Take for example stock and corporate bond returns, which normally rise and fall together. capacitance. RedHawk delivers transistor-level accuracy with cell-based capacity, performance, and ease-of-use. With RedHawk, designers can identify dynamic "hot spots hot spots acute moist dermatitis. ," examine the impact on timing, accurately pinpoint the cause of dynamic voltage drop, and automatically repair the source of supply noise. RedHawk enables designers to reach power closure sign-off for high performance SoCs, including those utilizing advanced low-power design techniques such as leakage current control, MTCMOS (power-gating), multiple voltage domains, and multiple threshold transistors. About PsiWinder PsiWinder is a clock network integrity (jitter) and critical path timing sign-off solution that considers the concurrent and interdependent effects of signal integrity (crosstalk noise) and power integrity (dynamic voltage drop and ground bounce, as well as package induced noise) on clock jitter and critical path timing. Certified by TSMC's Reference Flow 7.0, PsiWinder delivers Spice-level accuracy with full-chip capacity, enabling designers to gain much more realistic view of clock jittering jit·ter intr.v. jit·tered, jit·ter·ing, jit·ters 1. To be nervous or uneasy; fidget. 2. To make small quick jumpy movements. and skew (1) The misalignment of a document or punch card in the feed tray or hopper that prohibits it from being scanned or read properly. (2) In facsimile, the difference in rectangularity between the received and transmitted page. , as well as the setup and hold time violations in the critical paths. About Apache Design Solutions Apache delivers the leading power sign-off solution adopted by 70% of the top semiconductor companies and a complete platform solution for silicon integrity of low-power, high-performance system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs. Apache's innovative platform considers all sources of noise that impacts the design -- such as power, signal, package / system IO, substrate, and temperature -- Apache's silicon integrity platform enables designers of leading networking, wireless, communication, consumer, and semiconductor companies to detect, fix, and prevent design weaknesses that can result in reduced yield or failed silicon. Apache's vendor-neutral solution enables designers to adopt any industry-standard physical design flow and is certified by TSMC's 5.0, 6.0, and 7.0 Reference Flow (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : TSM TSM Tivoli Storage Manager TSM Transportation System Management TSM Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (stock symbol) TSM Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. ). Apache has direct sales and support offices worldwide with over 40 customers, including 8 of the top 10 semiconductor companies. For more information, visit www.apache-da.com. Apache Design Solutions, NSPICE, RedHawk, PsiWinder, Sahara-PTE, and Vectorless Dynamic are trademarks of Apache Design Solutions, Inc. |
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