WARWICK, UK - (BUSINESSWIRE) - July 20, 2006 - Arithmatica, the silicon math company, today announced a licence agreement to supply its CellMath Designer datapath synthesis software to MediaTek, the leading Taiwan-based supplier of multimedia and DVD chipset products.
According to MediaTek, MediaTek has scheduled CellMath Designer to be applied on the next generation controller chips. It chose CellMath Designer primarily based on its language support which is a real productivity advantage, where the tool combines better quality of results for power, area and speed with productivity features in datapath design. During MediaTek's evaluation, CellMath designer demonstrated good quality of results that fit into current existing design flow and produced correct, equivalence-check verified output netlist that passed APR with reasonable utilisations.
Nick Atkinson, Director of Software Development at Arithmatica, said: "We are very pleased to be working with Mediatek and that their engineering teams have appreciated our language features." Tony Curzon Price, Arithmatica CEO, added: "Arithmatica aims to sell its tools into every chip project that contains a significant datapath area. We are very pleased to be working with the datapath heavy design teams at Mediatek."
Pricing and Availability
Arithmatica actively markets and supports its products in North America, Europe, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. The CellMath Designer, Builder and Optimizer tools are term licensed with US single copy annual license fees ranging from $19,000 to $129,000.
About Arithmatica
Arithmatica is the first company focused solely on using advances in silicon math algorithms to lower costs and power and increase speed for math-intensive ICs, such as those used in 3D graphics, imaging, multimedia, wireline and wireless communications, and embedded processing. Its unique technology, available through its tools products and design services, provides differentiated improvement to licensees' ICs. The company received its first venture funding in 2001 and is headquartered in Warwick, UK, with sales and support operations in Palo Alto, California. For further information about how its silicon math solutions increase silicon efficiency and boost productivity, please visit: www.arithmatica.com.
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