Mediatek and Apache Partner to Address 65nm, 45nm Design Challenges
(Business News, 10 Sep 2007 )
Mediatek, a fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital media solutions, has selected Apache Design Solutions as its EDA partner for addressing 65nm and 45nm physical design challenges. The Mediatek-Apache collaboration will focus on areas of power and noise, including power signoff, advanced low power and leakage optimization, reliability methodology, thermal integrity, and IC-package noise management.
Through the Mediatek-Apache partnership, Mediatek plans to establish power and noise signoff flows for its 65nm and 45nm high performance and low power designs based on Apache's advanced technologies, as well as existing products such as RedHawk-EV, RedHawk-ALP, PsiWinder. Sahara-PTE, and Sentinel. In addition, Mediatek and Apache will share their expertise in methodology and signoff for system-on-chip (SoC) silicon integrity.
