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電子設計自動化概況及挑戰-- 思源科技之觀點及角色

李新基 (Thomas Li)

思源科技資深市場行銷部經理


Gordon Moore – Moore’s Law Design complexity will double approximately every 12-18

months

Geoffrey Moore – Crossing the chasm etc. It’s important to recognize that differentiation-creation

innovation and productivity-creating deconstruction must be conducted in tandem. If you try the former without the latter, the inertia demon defeats you. If you try the latter without the former, you do nothing to overcome the forces of commoditization…

Harvard Business Review July/August 2004

Two Moores’ Tales

Innovation Productivity


Therefore…

The productivity of the development team must double every twelve months


Is that possible?

US Productivity growthSince 1996 averaged 2.5%

per year

Q2 2003 5.7%

Q2 2004 1.9%

• Worldwide•China 1978-2001 average 6.6% per year•India 3.4% per year•European telecommunications industry

1990’s ~18% per year


Is that possible?

Yes it is – and has the been the case over many years

ITRS

Essentially flat


Yes is it Possible!

Recent effects ESL will have a small effect according to Gartner

I believe it will have a much bigger effect

Big gain from very large block re-use platforms

The previous productivity improver Intelligent testbench

There is lots more to be gained here as well

This was actually the enabler for the ESL transition

Productivity growth is the driver for new tools.


Who Deliver the Possibility

• Risk Reduction• ROI• Productivity• Time to Volume

• Risk Reduction• ROI• Productivity• Time to Volume

• Reliability• High Performance• Ease of Use• Functionality• Design Cycle Time

• Reliability• High Performance• Ease of Use• Functionality• Design Cycle Time

• Cost Reduction• Licensing• Supplier Viability• Business Flexibility

• Cost Reduction• Licensing• Supplier Viability• Business Flexibility

EDAVendors

EDAVendors


IC Design Flow Overview

System Specification

Functional Design

Logic Design (RTL)

Gate Level Design

Physical Design

Fabrication

Package / Test

Synthesizer

A.P.RFull Custom

Verification/Simulation

Verification/Simulation Post Simulation

ExtractionVerification


Springsoft Product Family

DebussyVerdiSiloti


SpingSoft Profile

Incorporated: 1996 Feb. 2nd

Listed on TSE at 2001

The ONLY listed EDA company in Asia

Market capital US$240M

31 Patents filed in U.S.

Best selling product: Debussy, Verdi, Laker


Novas USASan Jose, CADallas, TXAustin, TXMassachusetts, MAPortland, OR

KT Design TechnologySeoul, Korea

Springsoft (Shanghai)Shanghai, China

Novaflow Inc.Yokohama, Japan

Springsoft Inc. Hsinchu, Taiwan

Novas LimitedHenley, UK

WAIZSingapore

CMR Design AutomationBangalore, India Headquarter

R&D Center

Silicon CanvasSan Jose, CA

SpingSoft Profile


Asia Semiconductor Industry on Spotlight


Market position

Top five EDA vendors

in terms of market cap.

Top eight EDA vendors

in terms of usage in Taiwan

Unit:10M

Springsoft


Technology ExcellenceTechnical staff 100+ engineersTenzing Norgay Award for interoperability 2004EDN top 100 products2002 & 2004 IEC DesignVision Award Winner 2005EDN Innovation Finalist 2002Electronique Magazine (France) Product of the Year 2006

Novas LeadershipAccelerating Engineers

#1 Customer satisfaction 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 EETimes EDA user survey

#1 Market share Gartner/Dataquest “RTL Design” category

400+ end user companies50+ EDA / IP partners

Mission: Ease design comprehension from

systems to silicon freeing engineers to focus on tasks that

add more value

DebugAutomation

Comprehension

VisibilityEnhancement

KDB FSDB

Unification

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Debussy®Debussy®

nA

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SimVE™SimVE™SilVE™SilVE™


Enhancing Visibility

Assertions

SystemVerilog

e/Specman

VERAVerilog

VHDL

SystemC

Software

Transactions

STILLEF/DEF

Observability

FailureAnalysis

DfD

NetlistsTimingPower

Architecture

New Visibility Enhancement Tools

Regression Sim

nESL™

nAnalyzer™

Advanced Debug From Systems to Silicon


Customer Testimonial

"Our teams work on extremely complex designs with advanced process technologies, often involing very large gate counts and significant amounts of third-party IP. These factors increase the magnitude of the verification challenge and impose additional time and cost constraints on our engineering efforts. With Verdi system, we are able to implement a much more effective, automated debug methodology for finding problems faster and earlier in the development cycle."

Shigenori ImazatoVP of Engineering, Toshiba America Electronic Components


Laker – The only Constant in Custom Innovation

Cut Layout Time in Half with Handcrafted Quality!

Powerful ECO FlowPowerful

ECO Flow


Laker’s Customers200+ companies adopt Laker in production now


TSMC uses Laker to taped-out their 90nm and developing 65nm including memory, IO, STD Cell Lib. and mixed-signals IP

ST Micro uses Laker to taped-out 90nm STD Cell Lib. and developing 65nm SRAM

LG-Philips and AUO use Laker to taped-out 42” LCD TV panel

MediaTek uses Laker to taped-out MT1508-CD-R/RW Chip, MT1328-DVD-ROM Chip and MT1369-DVD Player Combo Chip

Laker has Delivered over 2300 Chips ……


Customer Testimonial

“We were impressed by performance of Laker's database. Moreover, MCell™ provides a much faster and more flexible way for device creation and modification that dramatically increase the yield of our custom layout projects,” ”We’ve also greatly benefited from Springsoft’ commitment to customer support. Our memory layout team receives top-notch service. During the past two years, Springsoft and Laker have greatly helped our projects. Fred Wang, Senior Director at TSMC"Magic Cell? provides a much faster, more flexible way for device creation and modification. It allows a truly ease-to-use method for using and reusing devices. Laker provides practical solutions to deal with the shrinking layout time and still deliver better layout qualit

y." Johnson Liu

Manager of Layout Engineering Dept.


What Will be in the Future?

CustomizedPlatforms, addon functions

2007

Makimoto’s Wave


SpringSoft Behaviors for Success

Integrity

Customer Focus

Accountability

No.1 Aspiration

Diversity

Optimistic with Passion

Innovation

Teamwork

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