( ESNUG 455 Item 9 ) -------------------------------------------- [06/29/06]
Subject: Secrets of the Apache future product Roadmap
IT'S TOO NOISY IN HERE! -- It makes sense; you have a really good SI and
power toolset, so it's natural that you'd want expand into covering the
whole "noise" problem on a chip. Smart. Now my question is how much does
their new stuff differ from Gradient FireBolt in ELSE 06 #26?
"Have you seen the Apache future roadmap? What did they say that caught
your eye? What did you not believe in their roadmap?"
I did not see the Apache roadmap. But I've just seen the PrimeRail
roadmap, and I was surprised to see that it describes features that
RedHawk had 2 years ago.
- [ An Anon Engineer ]
The Chip Modeling option in their roadmap is a pretty important
capability which Cadence/Synopsys/Sequence do not have.
- [ An Anon Engineer ]
I am very impressed that they cover the whole spectrum of power and
signal integrity for physical design (core, IO, Memory, signal path,
power grid, etc.)
- [ An Anon Engineer ]
Yes, the roadmap really covers all noise spectrum including SI, PI,
thermal, substrate, etc.
- [ An Anon Engineer ]
Looks very good. Seems like they are the only ones with a clear vision
in this area. They are going to address the whole spectrum of power
analysis and SI.
- [ An Anon Engineer ]
Apache's roadmap for the next 18 months is to go from power integrity
signoff to a complete SI set of tools for thermal, noise, IC-package,
and OCV/PVT design.
Currently they're working on a power-thermal-electrical tool which
does on-chip temperature analysis, and shows its impact on leakage,
reliability and timing. It's to avoid thermal hot spots, help choose
chip cooling, and find its thermal-based timing margin.
- [ An Anon Engineer ]
Near term, we are anxious to improve our data/model interchange
between ourselves and our pkg design group. As such, we want to
implement Apache's upcoming handling of s-parameter pkg modeling
during RedHawk analysis.
- [ An Anon Engineer ]
Seen and reasonable.
- Syed Huq of Cisco Systems
Nope.
- [ An Anon Engineer ]
Not recently.
- [ An Anon Engineer ]
Nope, not seen the roadmap.
- [ An Anon Engineer ]
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