LG Electronics used ACAD's FinePower for Its Latest Digital TV Chip

FinePower Hybrid Power Analyzer Delivers Required Speed, Capacity and Accuracy for Verifying LG's Complex Digital TV full chip

SAN JOSE, Calif. (PRWEB) May 15, 2003 -- ACAD Corporation today announced that LG, a world leader in the design and manufacture of high performance Digital TV solutions, has selected ACAD's FinePower IR Drop and Electromigration analysis tool for the design and verification of a complex full chip used in LG's latest Digital TV.

With worldwide leading edge technology of Digital TV solutions, LG is a leading supplier of Digital TV. Under its license agreement, LG's Digital TV chip designers have used ACAD's FinePower to perform hybrid gate and transistor level analysis needed to assist in the first-pass silicon success of Digital TV ICs. FinePower was used in conjunction with the Synopsiss extraction, power library, and Primetime timing analysis tools.

"Fast, accurate, and full chip gate/transistor-level power analysis is essential for verifying the IR drop and analyzing the electromigration impact of our complex and high performance Digital TV design, but older power analysis tools are limited by either capacity, accuracy, or the performance we need," said the parties concerned with design methodology of LG System IC Division. "FinePower provided us with weeks of saving in full chip power analysis. Within only a day of cpu hours, Finepower completed the full chip analysis with our six million plus gate netlist and its twenty million plus of parasitic and power net elements in a full dynamic analysis mode. FinePower's capacity to analyze the full chip including parasitic elements in its dynamic analysis mode provided us with more confidence in its accuracy than the traditional static analysis tools, particularly when FinePower can complete its full analysis in less than a day."

"In addition to performance and accuracy, FinePower's hybrid ability is also critical to our designers," added the LGs System IC Division. "With close to two hundred different IP blocks in our 0.13um process, FinePower ability to accept all of our IP in different netlist forms is a key to solve our design flow compatibility issue. And FinePower's flexibility in performing black box, grey box, and white box analysis provided our designer the ability to choose its own trade off in speed and accuracy."

"After the power analysis was done," said Andy Huang, CEO of ACAD, "FinePower provided the customer the ability to perform what-if analysis for power pad, power bus, and power strip editing in our GUI environment. Furthermore, designer can also use our Primtime interface to visualize and analyze the new IR drop induced critical timing paths"

"In the highly competitive Digital TV arena, the ability to complete full chip with detailed power analysis quickly is essential for success, " said Andy Huang, CEO of ACAD. "We're pleased to offer LG designer the additional hybrid flexibility which enable a speedy verification and help ensure first-silicon success. And most important of all, FinePower's ability to perform what-if analysis and report the IR drop induced critical paths allows the designer to quickly solve challenging power related manufacturing and functional problems."

About FinePower

A hybrid power analysis tool combining gate-level dynamic and static analysis together with transistor-level static analysis, ACAD Corp.'s FinePower is a tool that checks power and IR drop and Electromigration for system-on-chip (SoC) designs. FinePower's innovative technology has significantly speeds up the analysis time while maintaining accuracy. FinePower also provide what-if power analysis capability and seamless integration with Synopsys's Primetime to highlight IR drop induced critical timing paths. FinePower can be used for pre-layout or post-layout power and IR drop analysis. Input consists of a Verilog netlist, VCD format file, and Detailed Standard Parasitic Format (DSPF). For post-layout analysis, it can also read GDSII layout files.

About LG Electronics

Established in 1958 as Korea's pioneer consumer electronics company, LG Electronics is a global major player of Electronics and Information & Communications products. Over 55,000 employees working in 73 overseas subsidiaries and marketing units around the world, LG Electronics strengthen core competencies in three main business companies: Digital Display and Media, Digital Appliance, Telecommunication Equipment & Handset.

Digital Displays and Media Company provides core technologies and cutting-edge digital products such as Digital TVs including PDP and LCD TV and digitally integrated products like AV products, optical storage, set-top boxes, and home servers.

LG Electronics is focused on promoting Home Network and Mobile Network businesses based on cutting-edge multimedia application technology along with Information and Communication Technology as its core business areas.

LG Electronics Goal is to enable the intelligent networking of digital products that will make consumers lives easier than ever. For more information, please visit www.lge.com

About ACAD Corporation

ACAD Corporation is a fast-growing provider of full-chip hybrid power and timing verification software for complex nanometer semiconductors. The company develops and markets power and simulation analysis solutions for advanced ICs, especially for SoC designs with embedded analog, memory, and mixed-signal blocks. ACAD's products enable first silicon success, and improve product quality and production yield for its consumer, communication, computer, and memory customers. The company has sales and distribution offices throughout the world. For more information about ACAD, please visit the company's website at http://www.acadcorp.com

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