Fujitsu to Adopt Cadence Synthesis Tool

<%=company1%> (San Jose, CA) announced that Fujitsu will provide library support for the Cadence Envisia Ambit synthesis tool, which allows rapid synthesis of large, multimillion gate system-on-a-chip (SOC) designs. Several application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) vendors, including Fujitsu, have seen a rapid increase in demand for the Envisia Ambit synthesis libraries.

This move by Fujitsu will enable its customers to take advantage of the Envisia Ambit synthesis tool's performance. Multiple design groups within Fujitsu use Envisia Ambit for their production designs. Fujitsu Telecom recently synthesized a 1 million-gate design with superior timing, area, and dramatic runtime improvements using the Envisia tool. Envisia Ambit synthesis also has a built-in, high-capacity, high-performance timing analysis tool that enables productive timing closure.

The distributed synthesis feature built into Envisia Ambit synthesis leverages modern networked compute environments to dramatically reduce synthesis runtime for large designs. Envisia synthesis with PKS technology is a synthesis product that brings physical timing accuracy to synthesis. With physical accuracy in synthesis, timing closure iterations between synthesis and place-and-route are eliminated resulting in greater productivity and denser, higher performance circuits.

Libraries supporting use of the Ambit synthesis product for the Fujitsu 0.35-micron and 0.25-micron process will be available in December 1999. Libraries supporting the Fujitsu 0.18-micron process will be available starting March 2000. The Cadence Envisia Ambit synthesis tools are available for UNIX-based workstations from Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. Envisia Ambit synthesis is offered at an U.S. list price of $25,000 and Envisia Ambit synthesis with PKS is offered at an U.S. list price of $250,000.