Aristo Widens Market Focus With IC Wizard-COT.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2000 Aristo Technology, Inc., today announced that it is expanding its market focus with IC Wizard-COT(TM), a new product that allows COT design groups to extend their flat P&R flow in order to handle multi-million gate ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. designs. Typically, designs over 2 million gates have been too large to be completed using a gate-level synthesis/place-and-route (P&R) design flow. IC Wizard-COT addresses this by providing automated partitioning, optimization, and assembly capabilities to the users of gate-level design tools. Development Driven by Customer Requirements Aristo's developers worked closely with engineers from NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq:NVDA NVDA NVIDIA Corp (stock symbol) NVDA Non-Violent Direct Action (direct resistance lobbying) NVDA NonVisual Desktop Access (open-source screen reader) ) during the development of IC Wizard-COT. "NVIDIA's core strategy is to deliver breakthrough products with double the performance of the preceding generation every six months," said Joe Greco, director of engineering at NVIDIA. "Maintaining state-of-the-art physical design capability is an absolute requirement for us to meet this objective. We licensed IC Wizard-COT to automate our block partitioning on a multi-million gate design." About IC Wizard-COT IC Wizard-COT extends the capabilities of current generation synthesis and P&R tools by automatically dividing the design at the top-level into partitions. These partitions are small enough to be comfortably handled with current generation P&R tools or with a physical synthesis tool and can be connected by abutment abutment /abut·ment/ (ah-but´ment) a supporting structure to sustain lateral or horizontal pressure, as the anchorage tooth for a fixed or removable partial denture. a·but·ment n. without top-level routing. IC Wizard-COT generates boundary information for the partitions (both P&R and synthesis constraints), handles the optimization of the partitions, manages the connectivity across partition boundaries, and finalizes the top-level assembly of the partitions. "IC Wizard-COT extends Aristo's innovative and patented block-based design technology to address multi-million gate ASIC designs," said Dave Reed, vice president of marketing at Aristo. "By using the power of our underlying block-based design algorithms, IC Wizard-COT is able to generate partitions that are optimized for timing convergence and easy design completion." Features of IC Wizard-COT IC Wizard-COT interfaces with ASIC design environments through standard file formats and works well with all commonly used physical design tools. Major features of IC Wizard-COT include: -- Hierarchy Management -- Timing-Driven Automatic Partitioning -- Automatic Pin Placement and Optimization -- Power and Clock Routing Pricing & Availability Aristo's IC Wizard-COT is available immediately and is priced in the U.S. starting at $93,000 for a one-year license. Additional information is available at http://www.aristotech.com/products.htm. About Block-Based Design Block-based design, the methodology enabled by the IC Wizard family of products, brings several advantages over gate-level design. These include better support for hard and soft IP reuse; predictable design closure; scalability to support large designs; and better support for distributed team-based design. About Aristo Aristo Technology, Inc. develops and markets automated block-based design planning and assembly tools for the rapid design of large 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 IC Wizard products are designed for and used by leading edge consumer, computer and communications companies Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. . Aristo is a partner in the Cadence Design Systems' (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. ) Alanza Connections and Synopsys' (Nasdaq:SNPS SNPS Space Nuclear Power System ) in-Sync programs. Aristo is privately held, funded by US Venture Partners, Information Technology Ventures, Lucent Venture Partners (NYSE:LU) and Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking (Nasdaq:INTC INTC Intel (NASDAQ symbol) INTC Intercept INTC Interrupt Controller ). For more information about Aristo visit our Web site at http://www.aristotech.com. |
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