Cadence and NEC electronics announce encounter digital implementation system to support NEC Electronics' system LSI with built-in V850 CPU core

Microelectronics International

ISSN: 1356-5362

Article publication date: 31 July 2009

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(2009), "Cadence and NEC electronics announce encounter digital implementation system to support NEC Electronics' system LSI with built-in V850 CPU core", Microelectronics International, Vol. 26 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/mi.2009.21826cad.004

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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Cadence and NEC electronics announce encounter digital implementation system to support NEC Electronics' system LSI with built-in V850 CPU core

Article Type: New products From: Microelectronics International, Volume 26, Issue 3

Cadence Design Systems Inc. and NEC Electronics Corporation have announced the development of prototypes of NEC Electronics' state-of-the-art V850™-based System LSI, made possible by support of Cadence's new encounter digital implementation system v8.1. NEC Electronics developed its LSIs next-generation CPU core, successfully reducing the total design turnaround time (TAT) by 50 percent while including complete full multi-mode, multi-corner analysis and optimisation throughout the back end of the design flow.

Since the introduction of the first single-chip microcontroller with the V850 core in April 1996, NEC Electronics has steadily established a solid lineup of V850 series products and has extended the product portfolio to ASSPs and IP cores for ASICs. To further enhance quality and support to its customers, NEC Electronics collaborated with Cadence, which has a proven record as a top supplier of electronic design technologies for system LSIs. This collaboration has enabled NEC Electronics to significantly shorten its design TAT and improve production efficiency. Cadence provided NEC Electronics with a reliable multi-mode, multi-corner analysis that provides consistent results with encounter digital implementation system resulting in a more productive environment and a shorter TAT.

The Cadence® Encounter® digital implementation system is a configurable digital implementation platform delivering scalability with complete support for parallel processing across the design flow. The system also brings an ultra-efficient new core memory architecture delivering higher-performance, higher-capacity design closure for single CPU operations.

NEC Electronics intends to actively utilize the technologies and experience accumulated through the collaboration with Cadence and extend those to the company's other products to provide customers with the highest quality and performance solutions for system development.

Information about NEC Electronics worldwide, please visit the web site: www.necel.com

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