Five Nominations:
Overall Innovator of the Year – DesignWare SuperSpeed USB 3.0 IP team
The team combined all aspects of USB 2.0 and emerging USB 3.0 5-Gb/s speed modes to yield a fully functional PHY plus controller on first silicon. The result is a complete solution that is optimized for both area and functionality. No other vendor has undertaken such an enterprise, instead opting to bring up Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and SuperSpeed USB 3.0 independently, each requiring separate reference clocks and independent external resistors.
Five Nominations:
Overall Innovator of the Year – DesignWare SuperSpeed USB 3.0 IP team
The team combined all aspects of USB 2.0 and emerging USB 3.0 5-Gb/s speed modes to yield a fully functional PHY plus controller on first silicon. The result is a complete solution that is optimized for both area and functionality. No other vendor has undertaken such an enterprise, instead opting to bring up Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and SuperSpeed USB 3.0 independently, each requiring separate reference clocks and independent external resistors.
Design Frameworks – Lynx Design System
Lynx is truly unique within the EDA industry in its completeness, production readiness and degree of automation. Lynx simplifies creating, configuring and maintaining an advanced chip implementation environment, lowering the overall cost of design. It combines an open, tapeout-proven RTL-to-GDSII design flow, GUI-based runtime automation, design metrics capture and reporting, and a subsystem to configure pre-validated foundry data.
EDA: Analysis and Synthesis Tools – IC Validator in-design physical verification solution
IC Validator unites the worlds of physical design and verification. Working in concert with IC Compiler, IC Validator allows physical designers to efficiently conduct signoff-quality verification during the design process, and ultimately results in a DRC-clean design that passes final signoff with ease.
EDA: Simulation and Database Tools – MVSIM voltage-aware co-simulator
MVSIM, Synopsys’ voltage-level aware co-simulator, works with VCS to shorten verification cycles by up to 5X because of its enhanced low-power bug detection. Technological innovations include: accurate simulation of designs with multi-supply macros, testbench customization based on assertion monitoring, and facilitation of a structured low power verification methodology.
Silicon Intellectual Property – DesignWare SuperSpeed USB 3.0 IP
The silicon-proven Synopsys DesignWare? SuperSpeed USB 3.0 IP solution helps designers deliver an enhanced user experience through better performance and faster data transfer speeds between their electronic devices. For example, a 27 GB high-definition movie can be transferred from a PC to a portable device in approximately one minute utilizing a SuperSpeed USB interface, compared to 14 minutes using a Hi-Speed USB interface.
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