Boeing Selected Orora for IBM 90nm CMOS PLL Design
Redmond, WA, July 18, 2006 — Orora Design Technologies, Inc., an emerging leader in semiconductor analog design software, today announced that Boeing Solid-State Electronics has selected Orora for a IBM 90nm CMOS PLL design.
Boeing Solid-State Electronics has delivered numerous custom integrated circuits to defense, space and commercial applications. Boeing is currently developing reusable high-performance radiation-hardened intellectual property (IP) for critical military electronic systems.
“There are three challenges faced by our designers: (1) aggressive performance targets, (2) accelerated tape out and delivery schedules, and (3) challenges of designing circuits in 90nm and below DSM CMOS,” said Roger Prees, Project Lead and Boeing Associate Technical Fellow, “Orora has been selected for PLL design based on their best-in-class analog synthesis technologies and industry-unique PLL behavioral modeling capacities, as well as product-proven analog design expertise”.
“Since 2002, Boeing has adopted Orora’s Arana and Arsyn tools in our mixed-signal design flow. A pilot project showed how the tools could be used to speed up the debug process in an A/D converter used in satellite telemetry applications,” said Dr. Warren Snapp, Manager, Boeing Solid-State Electronics. “We have also used the Orora tools in the design of an autozeroing amplifier, which is currently deployed in two spacecraft applications”.
