Taiwan's ITRI Selects Celestry for Silicon Accurate Sign-off; R&D Organization Uses Celestry's Nautilus-SI and Nautilus-VT to Analyze Cross-talk Coupling Noise and IR Drop.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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. & HSIN HSIN Homeland Security Information Network (Dept of Homeland Security) CHU, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 2002 Celestry Design Technologies, Inc. (San Jose, Calif.), the leading provider of Silicon Accurate Sign-off(TM) technology for the semiconductor and electronics industry, announced today that the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI ITRI Industrial Technology Research Institute (Taiwan, ROC) ITRI Information Technology Research Institute ITRI Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute ITRI International Tin Research Institute Ltd ITRI Information Technology Reuse Initiative ) (Hsin Chu, Taiwan) has selected Celestry's Nautilus nautilus, in zoology nautilus, cephalopod mollusk belonging to the sole surviving genus (Nautilus) of a subclass that flourished 200 million years ago, known as the nautiloids. family of products for sign-off analysis. The Nautilus-SI and Nautilus-VT products perform deep submicron cross-talk coupling noise and IR drop analysis prior to silicon tapeout. The Nautilus family of products offers parasitic extraction, RC reduction, delay calculation, cross-talk coupling analysis, IR drop, and electromigration (EM) analysis. It fits in with cell-based design flows, and can be used for high-end ASICs, COT, ASSP (Application Specific Standard Part) An ASIC chip that is designed as a generic device for a particular market. Whereas an ASIC is typically used only by its creator, ASSPs are used by many different companies in the design of their products. See ASIC. and microprocessor designs. It offers the electronics industry's first and most complete full-chip, signal integrity verification solution for multi-million cell designs According to Dr. Juyo-Min Shyu, Vice President and ERSO ERSO European Road Safety Observatory General Director, ITRI, "Celestry's Nautilus products provide the most comprehensive extraction and analysis solution for our deep submicron cell-based designs." Dr. Shyu also noted, "Nautilus-SI and Nautilus-VT were selected over other competing products because of the integrated extraction with cross-talk coupling noise, IR drop and electromigration analysis, as well as their accuracy, performance and capacity for full-chip verification prior to tapeout." "Deep submicron processes require silicon accurate analysis, especially with all the added concerns that must be analyzed prior to tapeout, to ensure first-silicon success. Celestry has devoted its efforts to providing the most complete silicon-accurate sign-off. ITRI's choice of our Nautilus products is another example of how important our physical analysis solutions are for silicon accurate sign-off," noted Dr. Zhihong Liu, 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 Celestry. About ITRI The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is a non-profit R&D organization engaged in applied research and technical service. It was founded in 1973 by the Ministry of Economic Affairs The following nations have a Ministry of Economic Affairs:
MOEA Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm ) of the Republic of China to attend to the technological needs of Taiwan's industrial development. It has since grown to become both a technical center for industry and an important arm of the government's industrial policies. Today ITRI is a 6,000-person operation organized under twelve research divisions serving a wide range of new and traditional industries. For more information about ITRI, please visit http://www.itri.org.tw/. About Celestry Celestry is the leading provider of physical design products that enable integrated circuit designers to achieve optimal performance from semiconductor process technologies. The Company offers software and services to electronic and semiconductor companies involved with the design of chips that are used in networking, communication, multimedia and computing products. For more information visit www.celestry.com or email info@celestry.com. Notes to Editors: Acronyms and definitions: ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. : Application Specific IC ASSP: Application Specific Standard Product (Specialized ICs sold to multiple customers as a "standard part") COT: Customer Owned Tooling (where designers own tools for IC layout, verification & sign-off steps) EM: Electromigration (interconnect reliability failure mechanism of ICs that causes vastly shortened lifetime) IC: Integrated Circuit IR: Voltage is the sum of current (I) and resistance (R) IR drop: Voltage Drop (as in the power lost due to resistance in the interconnect, a very serious problem in today's ICs) RC: Resistance and Capacitance, mostly refers to parasitic R's and C's in IC interconnect SI Signal Integrity (analysis required in order to verify an IC design is ready for production) SPICE: Industry standard circuit simulator, originally developed at UC Berkeley VT: Celestry's abbreviation abbreviation, in writing, arbitrary shortening of a word, usually by cutting off letters from the end, as in U.S. and Gen. (General). Contraction serves the same purpose but is understood strictly to be the shortening of a word by cutting out letters in the middle, for power SI analysis since voltage (IR) drop is a key problem in ICs today Celestry, the Celestry logo, Nautilus-SI, Nautilus-VT and Silicon-Accurate Sign-off are trademarks of Celestry Design Technologies, Inc. |
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