TOSHIBA SELECTS NEOCIRCUIT FOR AUTOMATED ANALOG CIRCUIT SIZING.Toshiba's System LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Design Division has chosen Neolinear's NeoCircuit to automate analog circuit sizing. Toshiba previously selected Neolinear's NeoCell for automatic analog cell place and route. Kazuhiro Oda, Mixed-Signal Design Manager for Toshiba's LSI Division, conducted an extensive evaluation of NeoCircuit on multiple challenging circuits including a chopper comparator comparator Instrument for comparing something with a similar thing or with a standard measure, in particular to measure small displacements in mechanical devices. In astronomy, the blink comparator is used to examine photographic plates for signs of moving bodies. with a seven transistor stack utilizing only 2.5 volts in a .18um process. Manual design of the comparator took approximately 4 weeks versus 1 day with NeoCircuit. Layout of the design was done with NeoCell in 3 days versus 3 weeks by hand. "Analog functionality is a growing requirement for system-on-chip designs. Next generation design tools like NeoCircuit and NeoCell will revolutionize analog design akin to digital synthesis and digital place and route over a decade ago," noted Tetsuyo Iida, Mixed-Signal Design Director of Toshiba's LSI Division. "Moreover, designs created with Neolinear software become analog intellectual property that can be easily re-used. "Toshiba is a leader in mixed-signal design and a Neolinear strategic technology partner," stated Tom Beckley, 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. of Neolinear. "Their feedback has been, and will continue to be, key to the success of NeoCircuit and NeoCell." Neolinear develops software for analog/mixed-signal silicon design. NeoCircuit automatically sizes analog circuits utilizing the customer's simulation environment and NeoCell automatically places and routes analog cells. In combination, Neolinear's solution provides an order of magnitude A change in quantity or volume as measured by the decimal point. For example, from tens to hundreds is one order of magnitude. Tens to thousands is two orders of magnitude; tens to millions is three orders of magnitude, etc. increase in design productivity. NeoCircuit is available from Neolinear and NeoCell is sold exclusively through 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. - news). The products integrate seamlessly into customers' existing process flows and are technology and methodology independent, thereby resolving the challenge of analog IP re-use and deep submicron technology migration. The company has sales and support offices in the U.S. and Europe with distributors in the Far East. |
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