Avant! Expands Business Relationship with Chartered Semiconductor through SinglePass Design Tools

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Avant! announced an expanded business relationship with Chartered Semiconductor, a leading dedicated semiconductor foundry, through the adoption of Avant!'s Milkyway-based integrated SinglePass design tools. This 3-year agreement will enable Chartered to support production flows at 0.35 micron and below, accelerating time-to-market delivery for Avant!'s customers. SinglePass is a proprietary RTL to Silicon flow that delivers the fastest time-to-money for differentiated silicon at very deep submicron (VDSM) process geometries.

Key Takeaways:

  • Avant! has expanded its business relationship with Chartered Semiconductor through a 3-year agreement for Chartered to use Avant!'s Milkyway-based SinglePass design tools.
  • Chartered will use SinglePass to support production flows at 0.35 micron and below, accelerating time-to-market delivery for Avant!'s customers.
  • SinglePass is Avant!'s proprietary RTL to Silicon flow that delivers the fastest time-to-money for differentiated silicon at very deep submicron (VDSM) process geometries.
  • SinglePass significantly reduces design iterations and accelerates the overall design process to bring ICs to market more quickly.
  • Avant!'s tools support hierarchical design methodologies as well as incremental design changes in all phases, and they offer the capacity needed for multi-million-transistor devices.
  • The SinglePass design and tools operate on Milkyway, the industry's only common VDSM database.
  • Chartered will use Avant!'s SinglePass design tools to support the integration of intellectual property cores like the MIPS32 4K RISC processor core family.

Statistics:

  • Avant!'s SinglePass design flow delivers the fastest time-to-money for differentiated silicon at very deep submicron (VDSM) process geometries.
  • Chartered will use Avant!'s SinglePass design tools to support production flows at 0.35 micron and below.
  • Avant!'s Milkyway-based SinglePass design tools will operate on Chartered's production flows for the next 3 years.
  • SinglePass significantly reduces design iterations, accelerating the overall design process to bring ICs to market more quickly.

Sources:

  • PRNewswire, "Avant! and Chartered Semiconductor Expand Business Relationship through SinglePass Design Tools," October 18.
  • Avant! Corporation website, "About Avant!", Retrieved December 2022.