Two for one: integrated with new Allegro.

NASHUA, NH AND SANTA CLARA, CA -- A pair of EDA providers have integrated their tools with Cadence's (cadence.com) new Allegro system interconnect design platform.

Ohio Design Automation (ohioda.com) now provides Cadence users with full bi-directional integration with InterComm 5.1 collaboration groupware, which permits enterprise-wide sharing, reviewing, annotating and verifying of electronic design intent.

EDAconduit, a new add-on module for InterComm 5.1, eliminates manual file extraction steps with an automated bi-directional link between Cadence Allegro and InterComm 5.1. EDAconduit is also capable of back annotating InterComm red-line markups into Allegro layout and schematic tools. EDAconduit enables direct cross-highlighting of any EDA data captured in InterComm with the Cadence authoring tools.

Also newly integrated is Sigrity Inc.'s (sigrity.com) SPEED2000 transient time-domain simulation software. The tool analyzes the power delivery system and the signal return path in a non-ideal power supply environment of the entire system interconnect--from chip I/O driver through IC package, across the PCB and back through another package and IC I/O buffer; i.e., chip to chip.

Also, PowerSI, Sigrity's frequency-domain simulation tool, can extract a multi-port S-parameter model of the entire IC package or PCB structure.