Aprisa and Apogee – The New Avatars

Aprisa and Apogee – The New Avatars
by Alex Tan on 07-19-2018 at 12:00 pm

Earlier physical optimization impacts a design QoR gain and can disclose potential hurdles in dealing with unknown design variants such as new IP inclusion or new process node issues. Along the RTL-to-GDS2 implementation continuum, a left-shift move requires a robust modeling and proper context captures in order to produce… Read More


ATopTech is Back!

ATopTech is Back!
by Daniel Nenni on 09-18-2017 at 7:00 am

One of the biggest surprises at the TSMC OIP Forum last week was the reappearance of bankrupt EDA vendor ATopTech. I spoke with former ATopTech CEO and now Avatar IS President Jue-Hsien Chern at OIP. As a survivor of several EDA legal battles myself, I understand what ATopTech went through and I am thoroughly impressed that they had… Read More