Broadcom Corporation Adopts PROLIFIC's ProGenerate Suite To Accelerate Silicon Library Development.NEWARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 15, 1999-- PROLIFIC, Inc., developer of 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 for creating IC cell layout, today announced it is providing its ProGenerate tools to automate Broadcom Corporation's standard-cell library generation. "As a leading developer of high-speed broadband digital data transmission for homes and businesses, we wanted to be able to capture our design expertise as part of the automation process," said Steve Crain, Associate Director of Broadcom's Cable-TV Business Unit. "We're concerned about area minimization, and we won't sacrifice performance, and ProGenerate gives us the best of both worlds." Crain continued, "We evaluated other tools, but the results we've seen with ProGenerate have been outstanding, and we've really become believers in PROLIFIC's methodology." The ProGenerate family includes ProSpin, which converts input SPICE netlists to finished GDS GDS Global Distribution System GDS Google Desktop Search (Google) GDS Goodie Domain Service (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) GDS Guards layout by identifying patterns in the netlist and selecting appropriate generators (including those created by the user) to produce those subcells. ProGenerate can accommodate user-defined layout objects, such as unique transistors, wires, and contacts, as well as new design-rules. "Our customers look to the design experience we've put into our tools," noted PROLIFIC President Dr. Paul de Dood. "And because ProGenerate can learn the customer's layout style, we provide both full control and full automation of the library generation process." BROADCOM CORPORATION (Nasdaq: BRCM BRCM Broadcom Corporation (stock abbreviation, AMEX) BRCM Master Chief Boilermaker (USN rating) ) is a leading developer of highly integrated silicon solutions that enable broadband digital data transmission to the home and within the business enterprise. Using proprietary technologies and advanced design methodologies, Broadcom has designed and developed 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. for some of the most significant broadband communications markets, including the markets for cable set-top boxes The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. , cable modems cable modem Modem used to convert analog data signals to digital form and vise versa, for transmission or receipt over cable television lines, especially for connecting to the Internet. , high-speed networking products, direct broadcast satellite and terrestrial digital broadcast, and digital subscriber line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and (xDSL). PROLIFIC, Inc.'s EDA tools include the ProGenerate suite, used by customers like Broadcom for rapid, design-rule independent generation of standard-cell libraries. PROLIFIC's library generation and migration tools capture customer design styles for reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. , provide total control over layout appearance, accelerate library development, and produce output rivaling hand-drawn layout. PROLIFIC, founded in 1995, is a privately-held company headquartered in Newark, Calif., and may be contacted at 510/252-0490 or http://www.prolificinc.com. |
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