Si2 Announces “Si2 Roundup@DAC: Standards in Action”

Design Automation Conference 2012

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) today announced the “Si2 Roundup@DAC:Standards in Action” co-located event at the Design Automation Conference, which will be held June 3-7 at The MosconeCenter in San Francisco, CA. The event will be on Monday, June 4, and will include a celebration of the 10th Anniversary ofOpenAccess. The event will include 4 individual sessions, a complimentary luncheon and an open reception. Attendees canregister for individual sessions or for the entire program.Standards have been proven to reduce cost of operations, drive greater process efficiencies and offer greater opportunities forstart-up companies to infuse fresh technology in the design and manufacturing of IC’s. Si2 standards have been targeted toresolve “pinch-points” in the overall semiconductor supply chain with a steadfast focus on rapid adoption of these standards.This day-long program, consisting of 4 individual events, will showcase activities currently underway with an eye towardsdemonstrating the value of these programs to the program participants and to the overall semiconductor industry. Therefore,this day-long session should entice engineers and technologists working at both current and cutting-edge technology nodesand also managers responsible for driving both design and manufacturing strategy, and related financial and staffing decisions.A featured part of the program will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of OpenAccess. A complimentary luncheon and an afternoonreception will highlight this occasion.

To read more of this release, please follow the link to http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120424005369/en/Si2-Announces-%E2%80%9CSi2-RoundupDAC-Standards-Action%E2%80%9D

About NanGate

NanGate, a provider of physical intellectual property(IP) and a leader in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software, offers tools and services for creation and validation of physical library IP, and analysis and optimization of digital design. NanGate’s suite of solutions includes Library Creation Platform, NanGate Design Optimizer, MegaLibrary IP, and professional services. NanGate’s solution enables IC design to optimize in performance and power, while significantly reducing area and cost.  The solution, as a complement to existing design flows, deliver results that previously can only be achieved with resource intensive custom design techniques.

NanGate is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and has offices in Denmark and Russia.  Visit NanGate online at http://www.nangate.com

In addition, we are proud to sponsor Synopsys’s Prime Time Special Interest Group event on June 4th, and also will be sponsoring Si2′s special luncheon celebrating 10th Anniversary of OpenAccess on Monday (see related press release from Si2). We will have a meeting room throughout DAC reserved for customer meetings and private demonstration of our latest product and roadmap. Please contact us to schedule meeting or in-person demonstration.

NanGate is expanding its team in Moscow, Russia to meet the growing demands of its successful Library Creator product. NanGate has R&D locations in Denmark, Russia and Brazil that cooperate in a borderless environment. Our projects are designed, implemented and supported across the three offices. Product teams have engineers from different locations and nationalities. At the Moscow site, our R&D staff is composed of talented engineers and computer scientists who share their experience and knowledge.

As a C++ developer, you will join the Nangate Library Creator team in Moscow. You will take part of the definition and implementation of complex algorithms and data structures. The successful applicant will have a good professional track with experience covering relevant work within any domain. Knowledge of microelectronics and VLSI standard cell library design is a plus.

Required Skills:

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science / Electrical Engineering or similar
• C++ experience in a Unix/Linux environment
• Background in object-oriented design, complex algorithm design and data structure development
• You understand that meeting milestones is essential for maintaining the highest level of customer satisfaction and loyalty
• You can work efficiently in a work environment with changing tasks and priorities driven by customer demands
• Fluent in English – spoken and written is a plus

Desired Skills

• Understanding of and practical experience in VLSI standard cell library design
• Perl, Tcl, SWIG, STL, Boost

NanGate is offering:

• An attractive compensation package to match qualifications
• Excellent career path working with international leaders in technology
• An international, professional and enjoyable working environment in Moscow

Do you want to make a difference with an exciting international technology company? Send your application to

mskru@nangate.com

NanGate is expanding its team in Moscow, Russia to meet the growing demands of its successful Library Creator product. NanGate has R&D locations in Denmark, Russia and Brazil that cooperate in a borderless environment. Our projects are designed, implemented and supported across the three offices. Product teams have engineers from different locations and nationalities. At the Moscow site, our R&D staff is composed of talented engineers and computer scientists who share their experience and knowledge.

As a senior C++ developer, you will join the Nangate Library Creator team in Moscow. You will take part of the definition and implementation of complex algorithms and data structures. The successful applicant will have a good professional track with experience covering relevant work within any domain. Knowledge of microelectronics and VLSI standard cell library design is a plus.

Required Skills:

• MSc in Computer Science / Electrical Engineering or similar
• Recent and proven track record in application development using C++ (3-5 years) on Unix/Linux
• Strong background in object-oriented design, complex algorithm design and data structure development
• You can work under pressure to deliver to customer deadlines while at the same time you strive for structure and discipline in your approach to product development
• You can work efficiently in a work environment with changing tasks and priorities driven by customer demands
• Fluent in English – spoken and written is a plus

Desired Skills

• Understanding of and practical experience in VLSI standard cell library design
• Perl, Tcl, SWIG, STL, Boost

NanGate is offering:

• An attractive compensation package to match qualifications
• Excellent career path working with international leaders in technology
• An international, professional and enjoyable working environment in Moscow

Do you want to make a difference with an exciting international technology company? Send your application to

mskru@nangate.com

NanGate Design Optimizer™ and Library Creator™ for Advanced 28nm SoC Design Adopted

by Fujitsu Semiconductor

NanGate Solution Improves Fujitsu Semiconductor’s IP Development Productivity and SoC Design Performance.

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA – October 18^th, 2011.  NanGate, the leading supplier of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) solution for digital cell library development and design optimization, today announced that Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited has adopted NanGate’s Library Creator, a comprehensive tool set that enables efficient creation and validation of digital cells, and NanGate Design Optimizer, an IC analysis and post-route optimization tool, into its advanced 28nm design environment.

With Fujitsu Semiconductor’s strong focus on accelerating 28nm design projects and their need to support process variants, Fujitsu Semiconductor has concluded a successful evaluation of NanGate’s solution. “Fujitsu Semiconductor’s business growth depends on our continuous improvement in design development quality and efficiency.  We are impressed with the effectiveness of NanGate’s solution to automate generation of large sets of complex cells, and the ability to improve the quality of design performance,” said Hiroshi Ikeda, Director of System LSI Technology & Product Department, Technology Development Division, IP & Technology Development and Manufacturing Unit of Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited.  “We expect to leverage these strengths for our critical design development with various advanced process technologies.”

Qualified for 28 nm technology and below, NanGate’s Library Creator tool set was designed to handle complexity of advanced process technology while delivering an automated and integrated solution for custom cell development.  With Library Creator, designers can control and alter the individual attributes of digital library cells, to make precise adjustments and automate to create extended cell variants.  Combined with the Design Optimizer, which has the ability to utilize large extended cell set in its unique optimization technology, NanGate solution fits seamlessly into existing EDA flow yet delivering much improved results.

“Being selected by Fujitsu Semiconductor to enable their critical designs in advanced process technologies underscores the significance of NanGate solutions,” said Kevin Bushby, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at NanGate.  “We are committed to continue our collaboration with Fujitsu Semiconductor and help them delivering superior results more efficiently and effectively”.

About NanGate

NanGate, a provider of physical intellectual property(IP) and a leader in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software, offers tools and services for creation and validation of physical library IP, and analysis and optimization of digital design. NanGate’s suite of solutions includes Library Creation Platform, NanGate Design Optimizer, MegaLibrary IP, and professional services. NanGate’s solution enables IC design to optimize in performance and power, while significantly reducing area and cost.  The solution, as a complement to existing design flows, deliver results that previously can only be achieved with resource intensive custom design techniques.

NanGate is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and has offices in Denmark and Russia.  Visit NanGate online at http://www.nangate.com

16th Si2 Conference

Venue: TechMart – Network Meeting Center, 5201 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA (Free parking).

Date: Thursday, 10/20/2011. NanGate is a proud sponsor of the DEMO/Reception session. Come visit our table and see our products.

Tokyo, Japan (Tokyo Conference Center Shinagawa) November 29(IC day) and November 30(system day), 2011. Come visit our booth and see our products. Contact us at sales@nangate.com to organize a meeting during the event

William Bayer

Silicon Integration Initiative

512-342-2244, ext. 304 (office)

NanGate Releases new 45nm Open Cell Library Through Si2

Austin, TX—September 13, 2011. Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) announced today the availability of the new NanGate open source 45nm standard-cell library, which is available for download from the Si2 website. The new release of the library has significant new features, including: a new set of low power cells, support for VITAL (VHDL Initiative Towards ASIC Libraries) views, support for Cadence Virtuoso database, improved sizing of all cells for better compatibility with place and route tools, and a new IP release directory structure.

The NanGate Open Cell Library is a generic open-source, standard-cell library provided for the purposes of research, testing, and exploring EDA flows. This library is purposely non-manufacturable. NanGate has developed and donated this library to Si2 for open use. The library is intended to aid university research by developing circuits in cutting edge technologies that can be used to evaluate new algorithms and design flows, and organizations such as Si2 in developing standards and design flows that can be used to evaluate the new standards. The library was generated using NanGate’s Library Creator™ and the 45nm FreePDK Base Kit from North Carolina State University and characterized with NanGate’s Nanspice™ using the Predictive Technology Model from Arizona State University.

A key feature of the new release is the Low Power Open Cell Library which contains always-on cells, isolation cells, level shifters and power-switches. All cell functions come in multiple drive strength variants. The Low Power Open Cell library contains the following cells types:

* Always-on cell: A special circuit located in a switched-off domain, and whose power supply is continuous even when the  power supply for the  remaining logic in the power domain is off.

* Isolation cell: A circuit used to isolate signals between two power domains where one is switched on and one is switched off. The most common usage of such cells is to isolate signals originating in a power domain that is being switched off, from the power domain  that receives these signals and that remains switched on.

* Level-shifter cell: Logic to pass data signals between power domains operating at different voltages (or levels).

* Power-switch (header) cell: Logic used to connect and disconnect the power supply from the gates in a power domain.

These cells will allow the user to explore the low power features (e.g. power gating) in the leading P&R tools and to develop new methodologies through the use of sample designs that use these cells.

”The 45nm NanGate Open Cell Library has seen great success with its popularity. This release accomplishes enhancement requests for the library to be used in a wider range of design flows,” said George Kuo, Vice President of Marketing at NanGate. “Our main technology is in automation of library cell creation and concurrently optimization of the design.. It is our pleasure to develop and donate the non-manufacturing Open Cell library to Si2, and allows its members and the entire community to experiment flow development, circuit design and new algorithms using a NanGate library with all required views”.

“Si2 is delighted to be working with NanGate on the continued evolution of the Open45nm NanGate library. Through the leadership and library contributions by NanGate and excellent cooperation from North Carolina State University, this donation has filled the need for an advanced library to support research and evaluation of concepts and ideas in EDA”, said Dr. Sumit DasGupta, Senior Vice President, Engineering at Si2.

The library can be downloaded at; http://www.si2.org/?page=1417

For more information on this and other ongoing projects, be sure to attaend the 16^th Si2 Conference on October 20 in Santa Clara, CA. See here for further details: http://www.si2.org/?page=1384

About NanGate

NanGate, a provider of physical intellectual property(IP) and a leader in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software, offers tools and services for creation and validation of physical library IP, and analysis and optimization of digital design. NanGate’s suite of solutions includes Library Creation Platform, NanGate Design Optimizer, MegaLibrary IP, and professional services. NanGate’s solution enables IC design to optimize in performance and power, while significantly reducing area and cost.  The solution, as a complement to existing design flows, deliver results that previously can only be achieved with resource intensive custom design techniques. NanGate is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and has offices in Denmark, Japan and Russia.  Visit NanGate online at http://www.NanGate.com

About Si2

Si2 is the largest organization of industry-leading semiconductor, systems, EDA and manufacturing companies focused on the development and adoption of standards to improve the way integrated circuits are designed and manufactured, in order to speed time-to market, reduce costs, and meet the challenges of sub-micron design. Now in its 23rd year, Si2 is uniquely positioned to enable timely collaboration through dedicated staff and a strong implementation focus driven by its member companies. Si2 represents nearly 100 companies involved in all parts of the silicon supply chain throughout the world. See www.si2.org

Nangate will be at DAC2011, San Diego.  Booth 1317.  Will be showing our latest product update and roadmap.

NanGate is expanding its team in US to support growing business, and is looking for talented engineers to joint an effective team of field application engineers(FAE).

As a member of the FAE team, you will play a critical role in ensuring that the benefits of the NanGate products can be fully utilized in leading COT flows from RTL to GDSII. You will take on the task of supporting customers to reach their project success, and feeding back information to product teams to drive continuous improvement.

Responsibility:

Perform advanced product demonstration and pre-sale support in the area of process technology configuration, standard cell creation and characterization, as well as IC design optimization for timing/area/power performance.  Given the rapid growth of NanGate’s engagements, the candidate would also have opportunity to drive project management activities and be responsible for post-sale customer training and support, in a team-work environment with product R&D and customer.

Successful candidates should possess the following qualifications:

• BS or MSc. in Electrical Engineering or similar
• 3-5 years of industry experience in digital physical design preferable as Field Application role
• Experienced with one of the leading COT physical implementation tools e.g. Cadence SoC
  • Encounter, Magma Talus Vortex, Mentor Olympus-SoC or Synopsys ICC
• Strong experience with Tcl and Perl scripting
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver quality results on time for customer, while at the same time strive for structure and discipline in the approach to customer support and communication, while managing potential changes in tasks and priorities from the customer
• Fluent in English – spoken and written

Practical experience with one or more of the followings aspects is a plus:

• ASIC design IC tape-out record (specify which nodes)
• Signal integrity
• Variability, SSTA
• On chip variation (AOCV)
• Multi corner, multi mode timing closure
• CCS/ECSM models
• Power management (power down, power regions, level shifters, leakage control)