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Cadence Low-Power Solution Selected for Global Unichip’s PowerMagic Low-Power Design Methodology


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PowerMagic 65-Nanometer Design Methodology Leverages Cadence End-to-End CPF-Based Low-Power Solution

SAN JOSE, Calif., Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global electronic design innovation, announced that Global Unichip Corporation (GUC) has integrated the CPF-based Cadence Low-Power Solution into its PowerMagicTM methodology to optimize the design of its customers’ complex low-power ASIC implementations in advanced technology.

GUC was able to develop a complete end-to-end low power ASIC flow, including dynamic voltage frequency scaling (DVFS) techniques, by integrating the Cadence® Low-Power Solution, including Cadence Encounter® RTL Compiler, Encounter Digital Implementation System and Encounter Conformal® Low Power, together with its proprietary in-house tools, into the PowerMagic methodology for design, verification, and implementation. These techniques are keys to enabling multiple power domains of variable voltages on a single chip and reducing voltage to circuits when peak performance is not required.

“Our designers benchmarked the capabilities of the Cadence Low-Power Solution by optimizing a 65-nanometer, 10-million-gate low power design while correctly implementing more than ten power domains and over 50 power modes,” said C.C. Hsieh, vice president of Design Service at GUC. “Cadence low power solutions worked well in GUC’s integrated PowerMagic methodology, which effectively resolved low power implementation and verification issues that puzzled ASIC designers in a complex low power design project.”

The Cadence Low-Power Solution provides a complete methodology for design-to-signoff that begins with early design planning and includes front-end design, synthesis and physical implementation. It enables consistency and convergence through power estimation and analysis at every step. Alongside the implementation flow, comprehensive power verification is performed by leveraging static, dynamic and formal power verification techniques in a closed-loop verification methodology. This fully integrated, highly automated, power-aware solution is backed by industry-leading services capabilities and the industry’s largest power-focused industry alliances – the Power Forward Initiative and Si2’s Low Power Coalition.

“By implementing the Cadence Low-Power Solution in its PowerMagic methodology for low-power design, GUC has delivered a tremendous productivity and quality boost to its design teams intent on providing superior low-power circuits to its customers,” said Chi-Ping Hsu, senior vice president of digital implementation research and development at Cadence. “The combination should provide tremendous value to GUC’s customers.”

About Cadence
Cadence enables global electronic design innovation and plays an essential role in the creation of today’s integrated circuits and electronics. Customers use Cadence software and hardware, methodologies, and services to design and verify advanced semiconductors, consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about the company, its products, and services is available at www.cadence.com.

About GUC
Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), a dedicated full service SoC (System On Chip) Design Foundry based in Taiwan, was founded in 1998. GUC is now publicly traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under the symbol 3443 with 2008 revenue of 295MUSD. GUC provides total solutions from silicon-proven IPs to complex time-to-market SoC turnkey services. GUC is committed to providing the most advanced and the best price-performance silicon solutions through close partnership with TSMC, GUC’s major shareholder, and other key packaging and testing power houses. With state of the art EDA tools, advanced methodologies, and experienced technical team, GUC ensures the highest quality and lowest risks to achieve first silicon success. GUC has established a global customer base throughout Greater China, Japan, Korea, North America, and Europe. Its track-record in complex SoC designs has brought benefits to customers in time to revenue at the lowest risk. For more information about GUC please see www.globalunichip.com.



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