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COMPANY PROFILE

Founded in 1993, Sagantec is privately held and funded. Sagantec is the leading supplier of layout migration and re-implementation tools for processor, memory and analog/mixed signal design.  The company's physical design technology powers design reuse, process re-targeting and feature enhancement enabling rapid migration to the most advanced process technologies. Sagantec's advanced tools and methodologies provide substantial improvements in time to market and design flexibility over traditional full-custom layout approaches.

MISSION

Sagantec's mission is to accelerate physical implementation and optimization of full custom designs, meet our customers' time to market and time to volume requirements, and take full advantage of the most advanced process technologies.

SAGANTEC BACKGROUND

In order to stay competitive in today's challenging electronics market, semiconductor and system companies are under increasing pressure to design, produce and deliver integrated circuits (ICs) built with the latest semiconductor fabrication processes as rapidly as possible.

Over the past decade, there have been substantial improvements in the way cell-based (or semicustom) ICs are designed.  These improvements have resulted in dramatic reductions in time to market, a critical factor for success. The recent growth of complex system-on-chip (SoC) designs has created a new time to market challenge, however. A typical SoC design can include dense memory, processor cores, DSP cores and other full custom blocks. Even the libraries used in these designs are implemented using a full custom layout methodology.  Today, 50% or more of total semiconductor revenue comes from full custom dominant design.  For continued success in today's electronics marketplace, dramatic improvements in full custom design methodology are necessary.

Sagantec solutions capture and maintain the integrity of an existing, proven physical design and automatically translate it to a new set of process manufacturing rules.  This capability allows for design migration and reuse, resulting in compact, optimized circuits in the most advanced process technologies.

Sagantec offers a fast, automated way to implement physical components such as processor cores, libraries and memories in advanced deep submicron (DSM) semiconductor process technologies and thus enable fast introduction of SoC designs.  Sagantec solutions encompass all physical design components, from analog cells and mixed-signal components, custom libraries and memories, standard cell libraries, to large memory macro cells and complex IP cores such as CPUs and DSPs.