January 2008

Micrologic’s NanoToolBox™ (NTB) is adopting OpenAccess

Micrologic’s nanoRVInteractive™ rules-driven reliability layout solution is to adopt the industry-standard OpenAccess database, enabling tight links with the new Cadence Virtuoso custom design platform.

West Hollywood, Calif., January 3, 2007 - Micrologic Design Automation, Inc., a leading provider of design for manufacturing (DFM) solutions for nanometer IC design, today announced its NanoToolBox™ rules-driven reliability solution will adopt the industry- standard OpenAccess database, enabling tight links with Cadence(R) Virtuoso(R) custom design platform.

With the increasing number and complexity of design rules, rules-driven reliability aware environment has become a necessity for nanometer layout editing and custom design. nanoRVInteractive™, one of NanoToolBox™ tools suite, greatly eases the burden on layout engineers, enabling reliability aware IC physical design environment. Micrologic has further simplified the design process for its customers by supporting open interoperability through OpenAccess, ensuring easy integration of nanoRVInteractive™ into their Cadence nanometer design flow.

"Support for OpenAccess is an integral part of our commitment to making nanoRVInteractive’s unique, must-have advantages available to as many layout engineers as possible," said Danny Rittman President of Micrologic. “Our participation on both fronts further contributes to open interoperability and ensures ease of tool integration for our mutual customers. Micrologic's decision to support the OpenAccess database is another example of the momentum behind OpenAccess and the true, open industry approach it represents, especially when it comes to complex nanometer design. Customers are benefiting from the ability to have interoperability across multiple suppliers, which can only be obtained through open initiatives like OpenAccess".

As chip feature sizes shrink into 45nm below, layout engineers face the impossible task of meeting complex reliability and DFM criteria. nanoRVInteractive™ is the first tool of its kind to provide full support for the 45nm and below technologies in real time. Unlike tools that only check for DRC and DFM violations after the layout is finished, nanoRVInteractive ™ shows layout engineers how to design IC physical structures without creating reliability violations - in real time, during the layout process. nanoRVInteractive™ is an integral part of NanoToolBox™ tools suite and shares design information across other NanoToolBox™ tools to achieve higher nanometer design efficiency and productivity.

nanoRVInteractive™ with support for OpenAccess and the Cadence Virtuoso custom design platform will be available during the third quarter of 2008.

Micrologic Design Automation is revolutionizing nanometer physical design by providing powerful new tools suite that enable chip designers to implement nanometer design within existing design flows by creating reliability-aware design environments, enabling first-time-right tape outs. Based on its proprietary NanoToolBoox™ (NTB), Micrologics' tools provide designers with automated solutions to the most complex nanometer manufacturability issues thus improving design productivity and reliability, reducing manufacturing costs, and accelerating time to market.

Virtuoso is a trademark of Cadence Inc.