Compass Announces 0.35 Micron Passport Libraries; Provides Desingers True Foundry Portability Without Compromising Design Goals; First to Deliver IC Design Kits at No Charge and via WWW.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.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 1996--COMPASS Design Automation, Inc., a leader in 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. ) software and libraries for deep submicron design, today announced availability of its 0.35 micron micron: see micrometer. One micrometer, which is one millionth of a meter or approximately 1/25,000 of an inch. The tiny elements that make up a transistor on a chip are measured in micrometers and nanometers. See process technology. Passport(tm) logical and physical libraries, providing designers with leading-edge, foundry-portable silicon technology. Additionally, the new front-end design kits will, for the first time in the industry, be delivered to designers at no charge and via the worldwide web (WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. ), offering designers the fastest access to library technology. "These libraries provide unprecedented flexibility through Passport's foundry portable feature, enabling designers to specify their foundry of choice later in the design cycle than is currently possible with traditional libraries," stated Subrao Shenoy, product manager for Passport libraries at COMPASS. "This flexibility is critical to fully optimizing the silicon because it allows the design houses to choose the fab that provides the best price/performance, most advanced process features, intellectual property (IP) blocks and shortest time to market-all of this without compromising their design goals." The 0.35 micron (3V) Passport libraries include COMPASS' Optimum Silicon(tm) (OS) standard cells, RAM and ROM compilers This page is dedicated to list all current compilers, compiler generators, interpreters, translators, etc. C/C++ compilers Compiler Author Windows UNIX-like Other OSs License type IDE? C++ Builder CodeGear (Borland) Yes No DOS Proprietary Yes C++ Compiler , high-density datapath compilers and the industry's most complete package of I/Os, with approximately 100 interface functions available today. The new 0.35 micron libraries enable existing 0.6 and 0.5 micron customers to easily migrate to next-generation technology by providing appropriate technology parameters with the new libraries. COMPASS' Optimum Silicon library technology, announced in March 1996, is the base technology utilized in the new 0.35 micron Passport OS(tm) standard cell libraries and is optimized for both synthesis and place and route tools. With more than 300 standard cell functions, Passport OS is aimed at deep submicron design and at offering designers unparalleled silicon area efficiency while still meeting their stringent power and performance requirements. Currently the first program of its kind, Passport Foundry Program is a combination of the largest selection of physical libraries, which have access to most of the world's foundry silicon supply, with multi-foundry cooperation that links model performance to silicon. Current Passport foundry support for 0.35 micron libraries includes Chartered Semiconductor, LG Semicon, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation TSMC Traffic Systems Management Center TSMC Toll Station Management Controller TSMC Transportation Supply Maintenance Command TSMC Technical Services Manager Code ) and United Microelectronics Corporation UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation) was founded as Taiwan's first semiconductor company in 1980 as a spin-off of the government-sponsored institute ITRI. Today, UMC is best known for its merchant foundry business, manufacturing integrated circuits wafers for fabless (UMC UMC United Methodist Church UMC United Microelectronics Corporation UMC University Medical Center UMC United Microelectronics Corp (Republic of China) UMC University of Missouri-Columbia ), which was also announced today. Additional foundry support is planned as part of COMPASS' ongoing Passport Foundry Partners Program. When combined, this foundry support represents more than two-thirds of the worldwide 0.6/0.5/0.35-micron logic foundry capability. Price and Availability The 0.35 micron Passport design kits are available immediately, and the libraries will be available in Q4 1996. U.S. pricing for the libraries, including full physical, starts at $350K. About COMPASS Design Automation COMPASS Design Automation is a leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) tools and libraries for designing deep submicron 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) and application-specific standard products (ASSPs). The company supplies a complete set of tools for silicon implementation as well as front-end design and provides foundry flexible Passport and custom ASIC A redundant reference to an ASIC chip. ASICs are already customized for a specific use. See ASIC. libraries, memory and datapath compilers, and library development tools. COMPASS is headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , and develops, markets and sells its products worldwide. More information about COMPASS can be obtained on the World Wide Web by accessing http://www.compass-da.com. -0- Note to Editors: Passport, Optimum Silicon and Passport OS are trademarks of COMPASS Design Automation, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Tsantes & Associates Anna Leonard, 408/452-8700 anna@tsantes.com |
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