Sagantec’s updated tool set offers tighter integration with new Cadence Virtuoso Platform

Integration accelerates process migration and custom IC design and supports industry-wide interoperability through OpenAccess.

FREMONT, Calif., September 15, 2003 Sagantec, the leader in process migration and custom layout acceleration, has released Sagantec Tool Set version 7 (STS7). This new version updates all Sagantec custom IC design products: SiClone™, SiFix™, Companion™ and Anaconda™ - the company’s newly announced product for analog design. STS7 delivers bigger design capacity, higher speeds, support for 90nm and 65nm process design rules, and flow integration with the newly introduced Cadence® Virtuoso® custom design platform running on both the industry-standard OpenAccess and the popular Cadence CDBA databases.

STS7 works seamlessly in the Virtuoso environment enabling designers to migrate designs within the Cadence environment, through support of Virtuoso data objects and features including parameterized cells (Pcells), relative object design (RODs), and data attributes. Taking advantage of Cadence’s connectivity based Virtuoso editor, users of Sagantec tools, such as Anaconda, can benefit from significant acceleration of custom and mixed-signal design tasks using schematic and constraint driven layout optimization and migration flows.

Sagantec, as a current member of the OpenAccess Coalition, has worked closely with Cadence to ensure industry-wide open interoperability of the STS7 products with the new Cadence Virtuoso custom design platform version 5.033 running on OpenAccess database. OpenAccess support delivers increased productivity for users with mixed design flows involving tools from multiple commercial vendors and internally developed applications.

"We have a long and close working relationship with Sagantec both as a Cadence Connections® partner and as a member of the OpenAccess Coalition,” said Michael Sanie, group director of Strategic Third-Party Partnership and Initiatives at Cadence Design Systems. “This allows us to provide our mutual customers true value added access to Sagantec process migration and compaction capabilities tightly integrated within our Virtuoso design environment."

“Our clients demand and deserve the best possible tools and flows for implementing their challenging custom and SoC designs in the most advanced process technologies,” said Coby Zelnik, senior vice president of business development at Sagantec. “We need to provide our Cadence-based customers the most efficient and seamlessly integrated migration and acceleration flows. By working closely with Cadence we can help our mutual clients advance their design platform to a more coherent, robust, efficient and standard implementation that OpenAccess provides.”

Sagantec will continue to work with Cadence, as well as with the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) and the OpenAccess Coalition members, to provide ongoing support for the OpenAccess standard and OAC members’ implementations.

About the Cadence Virtuoso custom design platform

The Cadence® Virtuoso® custom design platform is the world’s fastest, most silicon-accurate custom design system. It directly addresses the speed and silicon accuracy requirements of advanced analog, RF, custom digital, and mixed-signal designs. The Virtuoso platform includes the industry’s only specification-driven environment, the world's first multi-mode simulation, >10x faster accelerated layout, advanced silicon analysis, and mixed-signal full-chip integration. It is available on both the Cadence CDBA database and the industry-standard OpenAccess database. With the Virtuoso platform, even the most advanced design teams can deliver silicon that is right, on time.

About OpenAccess

OpenAccess is a community-driven initiative, which provides an interoperability platform for complex IC design based on a common, open and extensible architecture. This is done through an open standard data access interface (API) and reference database implementation supporting that API. The OpenAccess technology enables easy tool integration from multiple vendors, smooth interoperability and faster application development. The initiative is driven by the OpenAccess Coalition, an organization comprised of leading electronics and EDA companies. The OpenAccess Coalition operates under the governance and bylaws of Si2. For more information about OpenAccess, visit www.si2.org/openaccess and www.OpenEDA.org.

About Sagantec

The leader in layout acceleration, process migration and compaction, Sagantec develops software and solutions enabling reuse of full-custom design, including analog mixed-signal circuits. Sagantec solutions are used to migrate designs to either the newest technology or to a different process at the same technology node. Privately held and funded, Sagantec was founded in 1993 in Israel. Its corporate headquarters is located at 46485 Landing Parkway, Fremont, CA. 94538. Telephone: (510) 360-5200. Facsimile: (510) 360-5255. On the web at: www.sagantec.com

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