PARIS – Australian Semiconductor Technology Company (ASTC Pty Ltd) and Tanner EDA (Monrovia, Calif.) announced they have concluded a collaborative agreement to deliver analog/mixed signal IP and custom ASIC design services globally.
The Australia-based company said it has invested in IP enablement and infrastructure readiness with Tanner EDA tools and flows to provide low cost analog/mixed signal ASIC design services and solutions to its global ASIC customers.
"Tanner EDA tools, flows and partnership enable the ASTC A/MS Design Services operation to offer new, lower cost, design solutions to a new range of global customers and ASIC segments," declared Jay Yantchev, CEO of ASTC, in a statement. "Previously cost-prohibitive A/MS ASIC product ideas have now become feasible and profitable propositions both for our customers and for ASTC A/MS Design Services."
ASTC is a semiconductor design, software and services company serving the global suppliers and customers of embedded semiconductors. ASTC commenced operations in March 2006 and employs around 100 staff worldwide with headquarters in Adelaide, an engineering center in the Chicago area, an office in Austin, Texas and Japan.
Late 2011, ASTC spun out a new company VWorks that intends to provide new technology and business solutions for electronic system level (ESL) development, modeling, simulation, and virtual prototyping to customers in the industries for aerospace, automotive, transportation, communications, and multimedia embedded electronics and software.
VWorks has a family of products that include VLAB, their primary design platform, Genesis a tool for model creation and OSCAR, a built from the ground up OSCI compliant simulator that they claim can do more and run faster than the reference implementation used by most suppliers of SystemC.
VWorks said it will demonstrate how virtual prototyping can accelerate embedded software and systems development at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2012, in the ARM Community booth.