Chartered Creates Partnership Network for 0.18-Micron Systems-on-Silicon Development.MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 1999-- Seamless Design Environment Closes the Gap Between Product Development and Manufacturing Phases Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing SGX: C27 NASDAQ: CHRT (abbreviated CSM) is the world's fourth largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry, with its headquarters and main operations located in the Woodlands Industrial Park, Kranji Singapore. has announced the formation of a partnership network that will develop a seamless design environment required for the manufacture of 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. utilizing Chartered's 0.18-micron process technologies. The qualified design environment allows customers to choose any qualified Chartered partner's offering and have the benefit of a seamless interface to Chartered's 0.18-micron manufacturing process. Under separate memorandums of understanding, Chartered is working with four leaders in the electronic design automation (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. ) and intellectual property (IP) industries -- Artisan Components, Inc, Avant! Corporation, Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. , and Synopsys, Inc. -- to provide customers with a seamless design environment offering three key elements. First, Chartered will work with Avant!, Cadence, and Synopsys to validate the accuracy of their tools and 0.18-micron technology files on Chartered silicon. Next, Chartered will validate the seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. of Artisan's and Avant!'s libraries within their respective customers' preferred design flows. Chartered will do this using the tools offered by Avant!, Cadence and Synopsys. Third, Chartered will verify the libraries in silicon via its test chip program. The result will be a fully integrated and verified set of design rules, models, tools, libraries and process technology. Commenting on the announcement, Ana Hunter, vice president of worldwide EDA services at Chartered, said, "These relationships mark a new phase in Chartered's EDA and IP program. Building on our strategy of partnership, we offer our customers the benefits of close collaboration with EDA and IP providers. At a practical level, we are verifying that our EDA and IP partners' offerings are qualified in the design environment under which our customers design their systems on silicon. "Through close collaboration with industry leaders such as these, Chartered's customers gain the highest degree of confidence that their designs rest on a reliable foundation. With both libraries and tools matched to each other and to our advanced 0.18-micron process, our customers maximize the efficiency of their next-generation designs. Further, these alliances highlight Chartered's strategy of partnering with key industry players to provide customers with fast access to deep submicron manufacturing." Chartered expects to begin accepting customer prototypes for manufacturing in the first quarter of the year 2000. About Chartered Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (www.csminc.com) is a leading dedicated foundry, offering advanced wafer manufacturing processes for a broad range of CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. logic, memory and mixed-signal technologies. Through alliances with complementary service providers, Chartered helps customers gain access to best-in-class services ranging from design to assembly and final test of packaged chips. Known for quality processes and exceptional customer service, Chartered is a recipient of Semiconductor International Magazine's Top Fab award. Headquartered in Singapore, the Company operates sales and service offices worldwide. Chartered is a member company of Singapore Technologies, a technology-based multinational conglomerate with 1997 revenues of S $5.4 billion (US $3.4 billion). Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Inc. 1450 McCandless Drive Milpitas, CA 95035 Tel: 408/941-1100 Fax: 408/941-1101 Chartered Semiconductor Creates Partnership Network or 0.18-Micron Systems-on-Silicon Development PRESS RELEASE ATTACHMENT 1: "As a leading provider of silicon IP components, we are pleased to be able to provide a seamless integration of our libraries into Chartered Semiconductor's customers' design flows," said Mark Templeton Mark Templeton (b. 1975) is Principal Trombone of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Mark studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama 1994-1998 with Eric Crees, Simon Wills and Peter Gane. During this time he became principal of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. , president and 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. , Artisan Components. "With this new partnership, we can now offer our library users access to 0.18-micron process technologies from all three leading pure-play foundries." About Artisan Components Founded in 1991, Artisan Components, Inc., (Nasdaq:ARTI) provides high-quality silicon intellectual property (IP) to the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers. The company's Process-Perfect products, including embedded memories, SAGE standard cells and Integral I/Os, are tuned to each manufacturer's process. Semiconductor manufacturers, in turn, provide these products to their design customers so that they may achieve the full speed, density and low power potential of the semiconductor process. Artisan's library products are designed to work with the most popular EDA tools in the industry including Avant!, Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys and Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics, Inc (NASDAQ: MENT) is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation (EDA) for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry it helped create. . Artisan Components is headquartered at 1195 Bordeaux Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1201; phone 408/734-5600; fax 408/734-5050; Web address: http://www.artisan.com. Artisan Editorial Contacts: For more information, please contact: Claudia Natalia Mary Jane Reiter Artisan Components, Inc. Tsantes & Associates 408/548-3172 408/369-1500, ext. 24 claudia@artisan.com maryjane@tsantes.com Artisan Components, Artisan, Process-Perfect, SAGE and Integral are trademarks of Artisan Components, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Chartered Semiconductor Creates Partnership Network for 0.18-Micron Systems-on-Silicon Development PRESS RELEASE ATTACHMENT 2: "Avant! brings a great deal of business and technology value to our relationship with Chartered," said Vic Kulkarni, general manger manger cattle trough which served as crib for Christ. [N.T.: Luke 2:7] See : Nativity of Avant!'s silicon unit. "Our Silicon Early Access(TM) (SEA) TCAD TCAD Technology Computer-Aided Design TCAD Tompkins County Area Development (Ithaca, NY, USA) TCAD Travis Central Appraisal District (Austin, Texas) TCAD Tennessee Commission on Aging and Disability tools provide a strong link with manufacturing. Integrating our world-class libraries with our SinglePass(TM) suite (silicon very deep submicron design) provides customers with a seamless flow. Consequently, we believe that Avant!, more than any other EDA company, has the best tools and technology to close the gap between product development and the manufacturing process." About Avant! Avant! (pronounced ah VAHN tee) Corporation (Nasdaq:AVNT) 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 ICDA abbr. International Classification of Diseases, Adapted for Use in the United States ) software for the design 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). Avant!'s full tool suite covers process characterization, circuit simulation and analysis, HDL (Hardware Description Language) A language used to describe the functions of an electronic circuit for documentation, simulation or logic synthesis (or all three). Although many proprietary HDLs have been developed, Verilog and VHDL are the major standards. simulation, formal verification
In the context of hardware and software systems, formal verification , floorplanning, physical design and VDSM VDSM Very Deep Sub Micron VDSM Volvo Driving Soccer Mom optimization, interconnect parasitic extraction, timing simulation, and physical verification Physical verification A procedure auditors use to ensure that inventory recorded in the book is correct by actually checking out the physical inventory. . Avant! also provides physical foundation IP libraries for integrated circuit design. Avant!'s tools support hierarchical design methodologies as well as incremental design changes in all phases, and they offer the capacity needed for multi-million transistor devices. Avant! is headquartered in Fremont, California For the unincorporated community in Yolo County, California, see . Fremont (IPA: /ˈfriːmɒnt/) is a city in California that was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communities: with offices worldwide. Tel 510/413-8000, Fax 510/413-8080 www.avanticorp.com. Avant! Editorial Contacts: For more information, please contact: Greg Fawcett Vic Kulkarni Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most General Manager, Silicon Unit 510/413-8022 510/413-8000 gregf@avanticorp.com vick@avanticorp.com Chartered Semiconductor Creates Partnership Network for 0.18-Micron Systems-on-Silicon Development PRESS RELEASE ATTACHMENT 3: "Participating in this program is another aspect of Cadence's customer support efforts," said Michael Buehler-Garcia, Cadence group director, strategic relationships. "Relationships like this ensure that Cadence products exceed the ever expanding requirements of our customers." About Cadence Cadence Design Systems, Inc. provides comprehensive services and software for the product development requirements of the world's leading electronics companies. Cadence is the largest supplier of software products, consulting services, and design services used to accelerate and manage the design of semiconductors, computer systems, networking and telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics, and a variety of other electronic-based products. With more than 4,000 employees and 1997 annual sales of $916 million, Cadence has sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world. The company is headquartered in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. And traded on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol 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. . More information about the company, its products and services may be obtained from the World Wide Web at http://www.cadence.com. Cadence Editorial Contact: For more information, please contact: Jim Lochmiller Cadence PR 408/944-8095 jiml@cadence.com Chartered Semiconductor Creates Partnership Network for 0.18-Micron Systems-on-Silicon Development PRESS RELEASE ATTACHMENT 4: "Synopsys is committed to enabling designs for 0.18-micron manufacturing process and looks forward to providing Chartered's customers with industry-leading tools targeted for multimillion-gate, system-on-a-chip (SOC) designs," stated Rich Goldman, senior director for strategic market development at Synopsys. "Through this partnership, Chartered is the first COT vendor to provide customers a complete front-end design flow, and we are pleased to deliver this using industry-leading Synopsys tools. Additionally, Chartered's support of EPIC Technology Files brings the industry-leading capabilities of the EPIC Tools Group to Chartered is customers." About Synopsys, Inc. Synopsys Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS SNPS Space Nuclear Power System ), is a leading supplier of electronic design automation (EDA) solutions to the global electronic market. The company provides comprehensive design technologies to creators of advanced integrated circuits, electronic systems and systems on a chip. Synopsys also provides consulting services and support to its customers to streamline the overall design process and accelerate time-to-market. Additional information about Synopsys is available at http://www.synopsys.com. Synopsys Editorial Contact: For more information, please contact: Ellie Katsoudas The Hoffman Agency 408/975-3057 ekatsoudas@hoffman.com Synopsys is a are registered trademarks of Synopsys, Inc. |
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