Sigrity Breakthrough Solution Optimizes Performance of Chip/Package Power Delivery Systems; CoDesign Studio is First Solution to Co-Simulate Complete Package and Chip Together.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. -- Sigrity, Inc., the market leader in power and signal integrity software solutions for 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. , IC packages and printed circuit boards, today announced CoDesign Studio(TM), a complete chip and package co-design Co-Design is a philosophy in the American pragmatist tradition, which argues that all people have different ideals and perspectives and that any design process needs to deal with this. solution for analyzing the performance of the combined power delivery system. CoDesign Studio is the first 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. solution to simultaneously co-simulate the complete chip and entire package in an integrated design The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. environment. It leapfrogs existing power integrity tools by including all package effects that impact the correct operation of the chip. Sigrity's unique co-design methodology ensures that ICs are operational when they are placed into actual packages, preventing costly respins, and potentially saving millions of dollars for companies in the semiconductor, computer, graphics, communications and networking industries. Unlike other EDA tools, the CoDesign Studio solution analyzes power integrity of the entire chip and package power delivery system. This comprehensive approach combines Sigrity's proven flagship SPEED2000(TM) solution for de facto-standard electrical analysis of packages, with the company's XcitePI(TM) solution for complete IC power grid analysis. Jiayuan Fang, president of Sigrity said, "Power integrity issues continue to be a critical concern for high-speed high-speed adj. 1. Operated or designed for operation at high speed: a high-speed food processor. 2. Taking place at high speed: a high-speed chase. 3. designs. Most current EDA tools inadequately represent chip/package interactions, often leading to incorrect or misleading power analysis results. Sigrity helps companies overcome these deficiencies by co-simulating the complete chip and entire package to ensure correct operation and reduce design iterations." Simultaneous chip-package co-simulation Sigrity's proprietary computational Having to do with calculations. Something that is "highly computational" requires a large number of calculations. techniques take into account the complete self and mutual parasitics of the chip and all electromagnetic interactions Noun 1. electromagnetic interaction - an interaction between charged elementary particles that is intermediate in strength between the strong and weak interactions; mediated by photons within the package. CoDesign Studio performs chip and package co-simulation of dynamic power integrity analysis to achieve fast and accurate results. The intelligent "what-if" analysis in the chip-package co-design environment provides engineers with a variety of design choices, including chip and package decoupling capacitor A decoupling capacitor is a capacitor used to decouple one part of an electrical network (circuit) from another. Noise caused by other circuit elements is shunted through the capacitor reducing the effect they have on the rest of the circuit. placement, package selection, IC floorplan placement, and IC bump and power grid configuration. Pricing and Availability CoDesign Studio is priced from $30K for customers who already have Sigrity's XcitePI and SPEED2000 products. It will be available in June 2005. About Sigrity Sigrity, Inc., a privately held U.S. company incorporated in 1998, delivers advanced software tools that analyze power and signal integrity in chips, packages and boards. Sigrity's patented methodologies run orders of magnitude faster than general-purpose methods, helping leading companies in the semiconductor, computer, graphics, communications and networking industries ensure high performance and reduce time to market. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with direct sales and global distribution through worldwide representatives. For more information about how to prevent costly respins by using Sigrity's power and signal integrity analysis solutions, please access: http://www.sigrity.com. Sigrity, the Sigrity logo, CoDesign Studio, Speed2000, and XcitePI are trademarks of Sigrity, Inc. |
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