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Monterey Design Systems Revolutionizes Computer Chip Design with E-Services Solution

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Monterey Design Systems, in partnership with Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), has unveiled an e-services solution that changes the way computer chips are designed. This innovative approach enables both companies' best-of-breed software and hardware to be used in a highly flexible and distributed design environment made possible by the Web. The new solution will allow Monterey and its customers to offer virtual extensions to their own customers' CAD and design infrastructures, enabling global 24x7 design by providing on-demand, remote access to both software and hardware through secured, high-bandwidth internet and intranet connections to worldwide data centers.

Key Takeaways:

  • Monterey Design Systems has partnered with HP to deliver the first e-services solution for the EDA industry, enabling both companies' best-of-breed software and hardware to be used in a highly flexible and distributed design environment.
  • The new solution will allow Monterey and its customers to offer virtual extensions to their own customers' CAD and design infrastructures, enabling global 24x7 design.
  • The solution includes software, hardware, network infrastructure, security, information technology (IT), and application support, eliminating time-consuming software delivery, installation, and initial setup tasks traditionally associated with EDA software tools.
  • eDolphin, a Web-based version of Monterey's complete In One Pass physical design system, will be the central component of the solution, providing the full physical design capabilities of Dolphin and added features focused on Web-based design.
  • The solution will be available for public demonstration at the beginning of March and will be available in production form in late Q2 '00 in the U.S. to a select group of customers.
  • Pricing will be customized to the individual customer infrastructure requirements and other parameters such as project size and duration, geographical location, number of servers, and bandwidth.
  • Monterey Design Systems' Dolphin is a breakthrough physical design system that directly addresses the new design imperatives of multi-million-gate SOCs built on sub-0.25 micron process technologies.
  • The company has been backed by venture and industrial investors including Sevin Rosen Funds, the Intel IA-64 Fund, and Infineon.

Statistics:

  • The new solution will enable global 24x7 design by providing on-demand, remote access to both software and hardware through secured, high-bandwidth internet and intranet connections to worldwide data centers.
  • The solution will eliminate time-consuming software delivery, installation, and initial setup tasks traditionally associated with EDA software tools.
  • The number of data centers planned for full deployment by 2001 is not specified.
  • eDolphin will be available for public demonstration at the beginning of March.
  • eDolphin will be available in production form in late Q2 '00 in the U.S. to a select group of customers.
  • The number of customers that will have access to eDolphin in late Q3 '00 is not specified.

Sources:

  • Monterey Design Systems press release dated March 10, 2000
  • Business Wire, BW1093 (CA-MONTEREY-DESIGN)

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