LG Electronics Standardizes on Cadence Encounter Conformal Products

LG Electronics has adopted the full line of Cadence Encounter Conformal products to improve engineering management and speed their time to market.

 

LG Electronics (News - Alert) is using Conformal ECO Designer technologies for engineering change order (ECO) management. Many functional ECOs are automatically implemented once Conformal ECO technology is in place, said officials. This frees up valuable resources and increases schedule predictability in the design of consumer electronic devices.

 

Woo Hyun Paik, research fellow vice president at DIS Group, System IC Business Team at LG Electronics, said is adoption of these products enables them to analyze and implement complex functional ECOs that are typically difficult and tedious to implement manually.

 

The company is now free to focus on more important verification, design closure and signoff tasks, particularly during critical tape-out times.

 

“Conformal ECO Designer reduces our ECO implementation time from weeks to days, and it helps us evaluate ECO feasibility earlier in the process.”

 

What makes Cadence Conformal ECO Designer unique is its ability to seamlessly fit into existing design implementation flows. This capability makes it easy to adopt and deploy in production designs. The product allows the designers to both estimate and implement ECOs within a few days.

 

Nimish Modi, a senior vice president of research and development for the Front End Group at Cadence, said Cadence Conformal ECO Designer to be a uniquely differentiated technology that provides significant productivity improvement and faster design closure at critical project junctures.

 

"The one-pass, integrated ECO flow saves customers money and time, while ensuring that functionality and timing requirements are met."

 

Other products adopted by LG Electronics include Conformal ECO Designer technologies for engineering change order (ECO) management; Conformal Constraint Designer for design constraints validation, compare, and hierarchical integration; and Conformal Low Power for verifying designs that incorporate advanced low-power features.

 

Cadence enables global electronic design innovation and plays an essential role in the creation of today's integrated circuits and electronics. In another announcement Cadence has said that they have validated a new generation of ASIC libraries from ARM (News - Alert).

 

The validation was done by using the Cadence Encounter Digital Implementation System and it targets IBM’s (News - Alert) 45-nanometer silicon-on-insulator (SOI) manufacturing process.