Date: 08/07/2010

Open-Silicon integrates 50 Synopsys' IP products with 100 % silicon success

Open-Silicon has licensed and integrated 50 high-speed DesignWare IP products from Synopsys into its customers' chips with 100% silicon success. The IP products include configurable digital controllers, PHYs which support leading process technologies from 180 to 28 nanometers, verification IP, as well as analog front ends and data converters. Open-Silicon has also incorporated building block and infrastructure IP from Synopsys' DesignWare Library into many designs.

"Our customers look to us to execute complex interfaces with first time silicon success, including physical design, package design, and test engineering," said Taher Madraswala, vice president of engineering at Open-Silicon. "Our 100 percent success rate when using DesignWare IP is a reflection of Open-Silicon's IP integration capability, our tight technical relationship with Synopsys' engineers, and the high quality of Synopsys' complete solutions of silicon-proven DesignWare IP."

"For more than 15 years, Synopsys has been providing SoC designers with a broad portfolio of high-quality, silicon-proven IP solutions consisting of digital controllers, PHYs and VIP that reduce integration risk and development cost and speed time-to-market for SoC designs," said John Koeter, vice president of marketing for the Solutions Group at Synopsys. "As one of the industry's top fabless ASIC companies, Open-Silicon is focused on customer service, low cost, design schedules and first-time correct silicon. Our OEM partnership with Open-Silicon enables a larger customer base to access pre-qualified DesignWare IP allowing them to reduce development costs and risk."