Conexant and Mindspeed Sign Multi-Year Licensing Deal With Sagantec; Conexant and Mindspeed Utilize Sagantec Tools for Rapid Physical Implementation of Full Custom Designs.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2001 Sagantec of Fremont, Calif. today announced that Conexant Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CNXT) and its Internet infrastructure business, Mindspeed Technologies(TM), have signed a licensing agreement for Sagantec's custom physical implementation products which include Companion, Hurricane, SiClone & DREAM. The businesses will use the Sagantec software to develop their world class personal networking and internet infrastructure IC technologies. Sagantec's products have allowed Conexant to create and completely verify custom ARM processor cores in a new technology in a very short timeframe. The results at both 0.18 and 0.15 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. processes not only were 22 percent smaller than what could be achieved by comparable methodologies, but the Sagantec methodology also provided control of electrical performance by transistor and wire sizing -- a level of control that is not possible with a layout shrink. "Our ability to quickly implement highly integrated system on a chip designs in new fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. technologies is a critical factor in our business. Sagantec's tool suite, as well as their extensive technical support, will be invaluable in exploiting new market opportunities,"said Mojy Chian, vice president, Core Technologies Group for Mindspeed. "In a competitive market, full custom building blocks such as high speed/low power embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. CPUs , specialized memories or analog transceivers are the key elements that create a highly integrated product with differentiated added value Added value in financial analysis of shares is to be distinguished from value added. Used as a measure of shareholder value, calculated using the formula:
Sagantec Product Overview: Sagantec's products are focused on automating and accelerating physical design, technology implementation and physical optimization of full custom 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. . These tools are used by designers of high performance CPUs and DSPs, memory ICs and embedded memories, and analog/mixed-signal ICs. The Sagantec product line includes: SiClone, a full custom layout migration and optimization tool. With its simultaneous, n-level hierarchy processing, SiClone can migrate, re-map, compact and optimize complex, hierarchical custom layout design blocks, such as high performance datapaths, custom control, memory arrays and peripherals. SiClone can also migrate analog and mixed-signal design blocks using a set of analog specific features. Hurricane, a high-capacity, high-speed layout compaction and migration tool. Hurricane can compact large custom-routed physical blocks, squeezing out unused spaces and making them denser and smaller. When used for process migration, Hurricane can handle large IP blocks and can flatten flatten - To remove structural information, especially to filter something with an implicit tree structure into a simple sequence of leaves; also tends to imply mapping to flat ASCII. "This code flattens an expression with parentheses into an equivalent canonical form." them to create the densest possible result. Companion, an interactive custom layout design acceleration tool. Companion integrates a powerful physical design-rule application and compaction engine with the Virtuoso XL layout editor and the Virtuoso Custom Designer from Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. (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. ). DREAM, this tool enables 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. and automatic retargeting of physical cell libraries to new process technologies, and generates new GDS GDS Global Distribution System GDS Google Desktop Search (Google) GDS Goodie Domain Service (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) GDS Guards 2 files conforming to the new design rules. It optimizes the layout for deep submicron technology while keeping the underlying physical architecture and topology topology, branch of mathematics, formerly known as analysis situs, that studies patterns of geometric figures involving position and relative position without regard to size. intact. About Sagantec Sagantec provides software, methodologies and services that enable rapid implementation reuse and design closure for full custom physical designs in sub-wavelength technologies. The company is working closely with its semiconductor partners and customers to ensure that its products work with the most aggressive technologies of 0.13 micron and below. Sagantec products are specifically designed to accelerate the physical design process of high performance/low power CPUs, and DSPs, dedicated and embedded memories, and analog/mixed-signal circuits. Privately held and funded, Sagantec was founded in 1993 in Israel. Its Corporate headquarters for sales, marketing, technical services and applications organization is located at 46485 Landing Parkway, Fremont, Calif. 94538. Telephone: 510/360-5200. Facsimile: 510/360-5255. On the web at: http://www.sagantec.com. Note to Editors: Sagantec acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products and services. |
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