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31 October 2007

Implementation Investments

Renesas Technology Uses Magma Blast Fusion to Increase Speed and Enhance Capabilities of Next-Generation SoC Device for Car Navigation Systems

Magma® Design Automation Inc . announced that Renesas Technology used Blast Fusion®, Blast Noise®, Blast RailT and Blast YieldT physical design software to implement a new system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution that offers significant performance and capability enhancements for car navigation systems and other in-vehicle car information system products. The single-chip SH7775 32-bit processor, running at speeds up to 600MHz, achieves performance as high as 1 GIPS (giga instructions per second) and up to 4.2 GFLOPS (giga floating-point operations per second). The SH7775 also offers over 50 percent better performance than previous generations. Magma's advanced, integrated physical design capabilities were critical to enabling Renesas Technology to deliver these improvements and meet the time-to-market requirements of this complex device.

"The ability to deliver complex, high-performance SoC solutions at a reasonable cost is what keeps Renesas on the leading edge," said Mr. Okada, director of the SoC Business Unit at Renesas Technology. "Magma software plays a key role in enabling us to shorten our development schedule even as we add more sophisticated capabilities to our products."

"The Renesas Technology SH7775 is truly an accomplishment and demonstrates the advantages of Blast Fusion's ability to concurrently address timing, area, signal integrity and power," said Kam Kittrell, general manager of Magma's Design Implementation Business Unit. "We are pleased to contribute to the success of one of the world's leading semiconductor system solutions providers."

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