SANTA CLARA, Calif. - February 07, 2006 - After reviewing competing voltage drop EDA tools, Genesis® Microchip Inc. selected Sequence Design for multi-year, multi-site power management solutions. Genesis® Microchip is a world leader in the development of image processing technologies for flat-panel TVs, monitors, and other consumer display products.

"High performance and power integrity are requirements for our product line as we move to the next generation of digital display controllers," said Genesis senior vice president of product development, T. Chan. "We chose Sequence over other vendors due to their superior products and application support."

Genesis design centers in the United States, Canada, and India are using Sequence's CoolTime and CoolCheck - a comprehensive, low-power SoC design suite for power and voltage-drop analysis, power-grid verification, and more. For details see Solutions Overview.

Genesis Tapeout Success With Sequence

During Genesis's design of a large chip with multiple power supplies, several mixed-signal blocks, and a large area devoted to memory, Sequence provided improved methodology for dealing with both dynamic voltage drop and power-grid analysis.

CoolTime has been adopted by Genesis for static and dynamic voltage drop analysis as well as power grid integrity. The CoolTime dynamic analysis is accurate and fast, featuring an updated extraction engine and the SpeedView layout viewer, with electro-migration and voltage drop "wizards" that overlay results on the original design, for 10X faster debugging of power grid failures.

CoolCheck is complementary to CoolTime, and traces the path from every cell to the power grid using patent-pending techniques. CoolCheck detects circuitous connections to the grid, missing vias, and power-grid disconnects. These fail-safe capabilities have proved valuable additions to the Genesis methodology, allowing the team to efficiently evaluate the power grid early in the design flow.

About Sequence

Sequence Design accelerates the ability of SoC designers to bring high-performance, power-aware ICs quickly to market. Sequence's power and signal- integrity solutions give customers the competitive advantage necessary to excel in aggressive technology markets, despite the demanding complexity and time-to-market issues of nanometer design. Sequence serves 9 of the top 10 semiconductor companies and over 130 customers worldwide, in application segments such as consumer, wireless, mobile computing, multimedia, cell phones, digital cameras, network-on-chip processors, and other power-sensitive markets. The company was named by Reed Electronics as one of the top 10 companies to watch in the electronics industry, and was recently selected as one of high-tech's Top 100 companies by siliconindia magazine. Sequence has worldwide development and field-service operations and is privately held. Please see sequencedesign.com.