Latest Virtuoso news from CDNLive!

Hey Folks, thanks to all of you who participated in CDNLive SV. There was a lot of great information shared by our customers as to their success using teh latest Virtuoso (which by the way has a new version IC6.1.3 out on downloads). 

Three presentations that I would call your attention to come from our customers Freescale, Texas Instruments and ST Microelectronics. Each found new and interesting ways of using the advanced features of the Virtuoso Analog Design Environment XL/GXL and the Virtuoso Layout Suite XL/GXL.

In the case of Freescale, they reported significant improvements in their design and verification productivity by taking advantage of the multiple-testbench capabilities, along with the updated corners analysis and new data displaywhich could speed their analysis of data from many sources simultaneously.

ST reported their success in getting a 30% boost in layout productivity by taking advantage of the usability changes and the new integrated router inside the Virtuoso Layout Suite.  And finally TI reported on their use of corners, monte carlo and optimization to increase their confidence that their circuits were going to achieve their yield targets once they went to manufacturing.

Each of these successes was made possible because of the maturing of the new Virtuoso, and its ability to handle complex tasks as easily as the simple basic tasks.  This continuum of flexibility it what we strove for in the new geenration of Virtuoso, and that labor has come to a spectacular fruition.