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Tanner's L-Edit IC Design Tool Gets New Capabilities to Speed Design and Time to Silicon for Analog, Mixed-Signal and MEMS Devices

Posted on: Monday, 14 November 2005, 12:00 CST

Design tools provider Tanner EDA today announced new capabilities for its Tanner Tools L-Edit(R) program for layout, verification, and placement and routing of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, ASICs and MEMS.

L-Edit accelerates the design cycle from concept to silicon by providing a complete package of layout tools with an intuitive and programmable interface. L-Edit 11.2 adds several key features to improve productivity, automate tedious manual design tasks, and make designing faster. These include:

-- Design rule checking (DRC) that runs 30 percent faster than previous versions of the program.

-- Multi-grid toolbar feature that allows users to switch easily among various grid settings, enabling faster layout and manual routing that is DRC correct.

-- Automatic guard ring generation, automatic via placement during manual routing, and via array generation allowing significantly faster analog layout. Guard rings and via can be set-up through L-Edit's user interface or imported from a Virtuoso(R) technology file.

-- Clip-out region feature that allows users to instantly copy the layout in a specified rectangle for fast changes to designs.

-- Ability to import bitmaps or to place geometric text using any font directly in the layout, which allows designers to add text or logos.

Tanner Tools' HiPer(R) Verify, which automates design rule checking for deep submicron manufacturing, also has been enhanced to support connectivity-based DRC rules. Foundry-compatible rule support allows it to run Calibre(R) and Dracula(R) foundry files natively, without conversion or modification.

About Tanner EDA

Tanner EDA is a leading provider of easy-to-use, PC-based electronic design automation (EDA) software solutions for the design, layout and verification of analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits, ASICs and MEMS. Its solutions help speed designs from concept to silicon and are used by thousands of companies to develop devices cost-effectively in the biomedical, consumer electronics, next-generation wireless, imaging, power management and RF market segments. Founded in 1988, Tanner EDA is a division of privately held Tanner Research, Inc. For more information, go to www.tannereda.com.

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Source: Business Wire

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