NEC Electronics America Achieves First Pass Silicon Using Sierra Pinnacle.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- Sierra Pinnacle Exceeds Performance Goals, Drastically Reduces Power, and Delivers Significant Productivity Boost Sierra Design Automation, Inc., the technology leader in high-capacity IC implementation solutions, today announced that NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Electronics America, Inc., a technology leader for complex IC design, has used Sierra Pinnacle(TM) to produce first-pass functional silicon on a design with 4 million gates and with a core frequency of 367 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. in 150nm technology. "We used Sierra Pinnacle for prototyping and physical synthesis and clock tree placement of the complete chip," said John Fallin, General Manager, Design Solutions Center, NEC Electronics America, Inc. "During the prototyping phase, Sierra was used to quickly analyze various floorplans and identify missing constraints. During the implementation phase, Pinnacle successfully exceeded the performance targets: operating 10 percent faster, using two watts less power, and reducing buffer count while concurrently optimizing at eight process corners. In addition to reducing the number of iterations, Sierra's run times were also very impressive: 30 minutes for a prototyping run and about four hours for an implementation run. Pinnacle enabled us to achieve high performance quickly by minimizing the number of iterations for large complex chips." Sierra Pinnacle's integrated prototyping & physical synthesis approach delivers world-class results and very-fast turnaround times (1) In batch processing, the time it takes to receive finished reports after submission of documents or files for processing. In an online environment, turnaround time is the same as response time. for multi-million-gate designs by incorporating advances in design for variability, performance bottleneck A lessening of throughput. It often refers to networks that are overloaded, which is caused by the inability of the hardware and transmission lines to support the traffic. It can also refer to a mismatch inside the computer where slower-speed peripheral buses and devices prevent the CPU detection, and analytical optimization technology. Pinnacle's ultra-compact database has the industry's highest capacity and smallest memory footprint Memory footprint refers to the amount of main memory that a program uses or references while running. This includes all sorts of active memory regions like code, static data sections (both initialized and uninitialized), heap, as well as all the stacks, plus memory required to hold , which enable prototyping and implementation to be performed in the same unified environment. Pinnacle is also the only solution in the market that is designed to simultaneously optimize for multiple process corners/design modes. "We are extremely pleased that NEC Electronics America has adopted Sierra's Pinnacle," said Pravin Madhani, President & 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. of Sierra Design Automation. "NEC Electronics America joins the growing list of customers who are successfully using Pinnacle to reduce their design cycle times in addition to getting improved chip performance. Our innovative product architecture and ultra compact database is helping our customers achieve design closure on multi-million designs in a fraction of the time it takes them with their existing flows." About Sierra Pinnacle(TM) Sierra Pinnacle(TM) is the industry's first IC implementation solution developed specifically to meet the high capacity, short turn around time and quality of results (QoR) demands of large designs targeted at manufacturing processes of 90nm and below. Its revolutionary physical synthesis technology and breakthrough product architecture speeds design closure by 5x to 10x over last-generation tools, slashing slash·ing adj. 1. Bitingly critical or satiric: slashing wit. 2. Dashing; pelting: a slashing hailstorm. 3. turnaround time from days to hours, and eliminating a major recognized bottleneck in the physical design of multi-million gate nanometer chips. Pinnacle's open architecture and ultra-compact database can handle 10 Million gates flat -- chips or blocks -- on a 32-bit machine. Pinnacle scales to 50+ Million gate hierarchical designs on a 64-bit machine and seamlessly integrates into customer's existing design flows. About Sierra Design Automation Sierra Design Automation is a privately funded 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. company focused on providing the highest productivity IC implementation system solutions to the semiconductor industry. Sierra Design Automation, Inc. was founded in January, 2003 and has assembled a world-class EDA team to address the capacity, architecture, design closure, variability and turnaround time problems that significantly worsen wors·en tr. & intr.v. wors·ened, wors·en·ing, wors·ens To make or become worse. worsen Verb to make or become worse worsening adjn at the 90nm and 65nm process nodes. Pinnacle, Sierra's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , provides "Fastest and the Best Closure for the Biggest Chips." For further information visit: www.sierra-da.com. Sierra Design Automation and Pinnacle are trademarks of Sierra Design Automation, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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