sci-worx is opening a design centre on the doorstep of Hamburg
sci-worx is opening a design centre on the doorstep of Hamburg
- A microelectronics company is treading new paths for taking on staff
- sci-worx sees itself as a forerunner in the IP growth market
Joining the Verification Alliance program, sci-worx introduces a new methodology to reduce customers' verification load by providing IP (DesignObjects®) together with reusable verification components.
Focusing on highquality IP, sci-worx integrates Verisity's tools into both its design flow and the existing IP Qualification and Certification process.
The rapid development of manufacturing technology in microelectronics enables ever more complex systems to be located on a single microchip (SoC). "Theoretically, a single development engineer would have to work for 500 years on a microchip that contains all the functions required today", explains Thomas Hoetzel, Chief Operating Officer. Studies in the sector verify that this complexity is growing by around 60 percent every year.
Related to the Verification Alliance program the Microelectronic Akademie, a sci-worx subsidiary, will extend its training program for instructing engineers in using Verisity's e-verification language.
Therefore the use of reusable circuit modules, socalled IP modules, is essential for the solution of this resources problem.
Hoetzel forecasts: "IP modules will fundamentally change the working methods in the semiconductor industry." Up to this, it was the norm in microelectronics that companies developed a complete microchip on their own. Buying in prefabricated modules was not common. The increasing complexity of microchips is changing the attitude of the semiconductor manufacturers, and is thus paving the way for the IP market. sci-worx is ninth in the world in this new, rapidly growing market. Its target is to make it to the first five of the international IP suppliers by 2004.
With this in mind, the company has developed its own IP brand: DesignObjects®. At present, sci-worx has on offer around 90 of these modules. The microelectronics company is focusing on the communications market and is working on secure solutions for line, mobile and encoded communication. "We are working among others on the DesignObjects of the third generation of mobile phones for UMTS", Dr. Achim Ibenthal, Chief System Architect, gives a concrete example of the IP strategy. "Without prefabricated DesignObjects, the tight timeframe for the introduction of UMTS could hardly be adhered to."
Contact sci-worx Headquarters:
sci-worx GmbH
Phone: +49 (0) 511 277-1619
Mobile: +49 (0)170 570 5613
Fax: +49 (0) 511 277-2610
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