[November 21, 2009] Fujitsu to Deploy SpyGlass-CDC Product Tweet Nov 21, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Atrenta Inc., a provider of Early Design Closure solutions for design efficiency throughout the IC design flow, announced that Fujitsu Kyushu Network Technologies, a developer of technologies for network and service management solutions, announced it has adopted its SpyGlass-CDC product. Fujitsu Kyushu Network Technologies said it will broadly deploy the tool to help reduce design risks associated with semiconductor IP integration. Early Design Closure solutions from Atrenta allow design capture, verification, optimization and exploration early in the design flow at the register transfer language (RTL) stage, when it is faster to correct problems and explore alternatives. This approach facilitates propagation of design efficiencies to detailed, back-end implementation with minimized schedule risk. "Atrenta's SpyGlass-CDC product allows us to ensure correct clock synchronization in our complex ASIC and FPGA designs," said Yuji Yoshitani, senior engineer at Fujitsu Kyushu Network Technologies System Logic Development Center. "We have deployed SpyGlass-CDC as a mandatory part of our ASIC and FPGA design flows to verify correct synchronization as early as possible and allow us to take corrective action if necessary." "The use of third party semiconductor IP from multiple sources, with multiple clock domains, is a fact of life these days for complex SoCs," said Mike Gianfagna, VP of marketing at Atrenta. "Our SpyGlass-CDC product is very effective at finding clock synchronization bugs that can become chip killers." Atrenta's SpyGlass-CDC product analyzes system-on-chip (SoC) designs to ensure complex clock synchronization schemes such as FIFOs and handshakes are correct. Bugs in faulty clock domain synchronizations between IP blocks on a chip are hard to find with conventional design tools and represent a cause of chip re-spins and field reliability issues. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]