Avant! Announces WorldLink Partnership Program; WorldLink Offers ICDA Designers an Open Environment with Tighter Tool Integration Between Avant! and Other EDA Software Vendors.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 1997--Avant! Corporation (Nasdaq: AVNT) today announced it has established the WorldLink(TM) partnership program. Its purpose is to create an open, synergistic synergistic /syn·er·gis·tic/ (sin?er-jis´tik) 1. acting together. 2. enhancing the effect of another force or agent. syn·er·gis·tic adj. 1. environment that will promote better design tool integration between Avant!, 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. software vendors and deep-submicron library development companies. The ultimate goal of WorldLink is to provide existing and potential customers, those common to participants in this "open" program, with more tightly integrated, innovative solutions for their deep-submicron IC design flows. "We have established WorldLink because Avant!'s products are number one marketshare leaders and it is important for our present and future customers to be able to have tightly integrated multi-vendor IC development environments where they have design flexibility and still obtain accurate and dependable results," said Vic Kulkarni, vice president, marketing at Avant!. "Avant! is currently in negotiations with a number of ICDA ICDA abbr. International Classification of Diseases, Adapted for Use in the United States tool suppliers and library vendors to enlist en·list v. en·list·ed, en·list·ing, en·lists v.tr. 1. To engage (persons or a person) for service in the armed forces. 2. To engage the support or cooperation of. v. their participation in the program. Our target is to have selected key partners as WorldLink 'premier' members signed up in the very near future." WorldLink reflects the spirit of openness that prevails in the EDA industry today, where vendors are providing increasing levels of support and synergism synergism /syn·er·gism/ (sin´er-jizm) synergy. syn·er·gism n. Synergy. synergism for customers' multiple-vendor design environments. The criteria for membership in WorldLink will be based on the best interest of the customer. Avant! plans to have two levels of participation: regular membership and premier membership. Regular membership will permit access to Avant! products via industry standard interfaces and establish preferred license pricing for non-commercial testing and Q&A. In addition to regular membership privileges, premier members will have a closer relationship with Avant! which includes R&D involvement for tight integration between tools and libraries plus development of customized interfaces for key joint customers. In general, Avant! will make its entire product line available to WorldLink partners based on the common interest of customer, Avant! and WorldLink members. For library development companies, a library certification program for use with Avant!'s place and route tools will also be established. Current Avant! IC design software products included in the WorldLink Program are: Planet(TM) physical floorplanning; Aquarius(TM) place and route; Solar(TM) physical optimization; Polaris(TM) cycle-based and event-driven simulation; Hercules(TM) hierarchical verification; Star-RC(TM) extraction and Star-Sim(TM) and Star-Hspice(TM) high-capacity circuit simulation; and Gemini, the new version of MASTER Toolbox See toolkit and toolbar. automated cell characterization, model generation and verification. About Avant! Avant! (pronounced ah VANH tee) Corporation develops, markets, and supports integrated circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for design automation (ICDA) software for the layout, verification and analysis of deep-submicron ICs including microprocessors, microcontrollers, application-specific standard products (ASSPs) and complex application-specific integrated circuits (hardware) Application-Specific Integrated Circuit - (ASIC) An integrated circuit designed to perform a particular function by defining the interconnection of a set of basic circuit building blocks drawn from a library provided by the circuit manufacturer. (ASICs). The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. . Telephone: 408 738-8881. Fax: 408 738-8508. World Wide Web: http://www.avanticorp.com . -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: WorldLink, Aquarius, Hercules, Planet, Polaris, Solar, Star-RC, Star-Hspice, Star-Sim, and MASTER Toolbox are trademarks of Avant! Corporation. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners and should be treated as such. CONTACT: Avant! Don Davis The name Don Davis may refer to one of the following people:
don_davis@avanticorp.com or Vic Kulkarni, 408/328-8681 vic_kulkarni@avanticorp.com |
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