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COMIT SYSTEMS EXPANDS ADOPTION OF CADENCE
ENCOUNTER DIGITAL IC DESIGN TECHNOLOGY
Design House Standardizes on Cadence Encounter Test; Harnesses Strength of
Encounter Platform’s Integrated Synthesis, DFT and Test Generation to Meet Stringent
Quality Goals
SAN JOSE, Calif. – June XX, 2006 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:
CDNS) today announced that Comit Systems has standardized its automatic test pattern
generation (ATPG) flow on Cadence® Encounter® Test. This expands Comit’s
commitment to Cadence’s powerful, synergistic front-end technologies and follows its
successful standardization on Cadence Encounter RTL Compiler global synthesis last
year. After previous experience with other DFT and test generation technologies, Comit
Systems chose Encounter True-Time Test to maximize test coverage and first-pass
manufacturing test success for its growing customer base.
After a smooth, simple migration process, Encounter True-Time Test helped Comit’s
design service customers meet stringent quality and time-to-market requirements with a
set of compact, high-coverage, high-quality manufacturing tests. Its timing-aware test
generation capability enabled Comit customers to detect small delay defects commonly
missed by traditional ATPG approaches.
“We looked at the marketplace and found that Cadence’s integrated offering of
Encounter Test and Encounter RTL Compiler synthesis is a powerful combination
unmatched in the industry,” said Venkat Iyer, vice president of Engineering at Comit.
“As a leading-edge design house, we must be able to quickly and efficiently adopt the
best possible technology. We were able to migrate to Encounter Test in a short time with
minimal support. Encounter True-Time Test’s proven track record and integration with
Encounter RTL Compiler synthesis will continue to help us deliver our customers
superior quality ATE test patterns in the shortest time possible.”
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Comit Systems provides engineering services for electronic product development
through chips, board, software, and system design. The combination of Encounter RTL
Compiler and Encounter True-Time Test gave the company confidence that it would
continue to meet its design goals of timing, power, area, and testability for first time
right, high quality test coverage vectors.
Exploding design complexity and nanometer-scale silicon geometries make test
critical to the success of modern system on chips (SoCs). Major challenges include
creating effective full-chip test architectures, minimizing cost of test and tester time, and
maximizing test coverage and product quality.
Encounter Test delivers the industry's most advanced test solution from RTL to
silicon. Encounter True-Time Test uses actual design timing to generate at-speed and
faster-than-at-speed tests that deliver unparalleled product quality.
Encounter RTL Compiler synthesis with DFT insertion has proven through tapeouts
to deliver improved performance, smaller die sizes, lower power consumption, and faster
design closure through place and route.
“Comit’s adoption of Encounter Test technology is an endorsement of the
differentiated value the Encounter platform’s integrated synthesis, DFT and test
generation technologies delivers,” said Sanjiv Taneja, vice president of R&D at Cadence.
“As an important partner, we are very honored by Comit’s expansion from Encounter
RTL Compiler global synthesis to Encounter Test.”
About Cadence
Cadence enables global electronic-design innovation and plays an essential role in the
creation of today's integrated circuits and electronics systems. Customers use Cadence
software and hardware, methodologies, and services to design and verify advanced
semiconductors, printed-circuit boards and systems used in consumer electronics,
networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. Cadence reported
2005 revenues of approximately $1.3 billion, and has approximately 5,000 employees.
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.
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About Comit Systems
Founded in 1992 Comit Systems, through its Contract Engineering Center in Santa Clara,
Calif., provides turnkey contract engineering services for electronic product development
through the design of chips, boards, software and systems, using the latest enabling
technologies and tools. Comit customers achieve implementation success and improved
ROI, using proven engineering processes that dramatically compress development cycles
and deliver quality and value to deadline. More information about Comit Systems, Inc.
may be found at http://www.comit.com.
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