Case Study: Spansion achieves 50% faster PDK release and 50% lower PDK testing and qualification costs with Cadence Design Systems

Spansion - Customer Case Study

Spansion, a leading provider of Flash memory for automotive, consumer, communications and industrial systems, faced slowing EDA tools and needed to improve designer productivity and compress time-to-market by adopting a more automated, front-to-back analog/mixed-signal design flow.

By partnering with Cadence and deploying Virtuoso tools, the PDK Automation System (PAS) and the System for Testing PDKs (STeP), Spansion automated PDK creation and standardized QA, cutting PDK release time to production by 50%, halving PDK testing and qualification costs, consolidating workflows, and gaining ongoing global support.

Spansion

Dinraj Shetty

Director, CAD and Methodology