Ciranova Closes Record Sales Year in 2011
20.05.12
Contributing to the Helix business were orders from new customers,
including two top-10 fabless IC companies, and reorders from multiple
existing customers. The company also exited the year with its largest
backlog to date.
“Placement, including layout-dependent effects, has become the most
complicated and critical step in nanometer custom layout,” said Eric
Filseth, CEO of Ciranova. “Once you automate this, large improvements in
design time and predictability become achievable, together with much
closer synchronization of layout with circuit design. This has been a
major draw. At 28nm and beyond, nobody wants to spend months in manual
layout without knowing how long it will take for everything to turn out
right.”
2011 also saw adoption of Ciranova’s PyCell™ technology for
interoperable parameterized cells by several leading-edge semiconductor
companies at the 20nm node.
Source: Business Wire (press release)