Today's complex SoC designs require collaboration and teamwork across diverse teams across the globe. Getting design closure in a short and predictable time frame is a daunting challenge for design managers and directors. Today's design closure heavily relies on ad-hoc design database hand-offs, iterations and incremental closure of the design via many diverse teams. There is no easy way to ensure consistency and early closure in today's design process.

Atrenta products and methodologies focus on early design closure and predictability right at RTL authoring stage. Atrenta products ensure that a design hand-off is truly a hand-off where all the down-stream processing issues are already remedied at RTL stage. Net result is scalability, predictability and cost containment.

Another issue that haunts design managers is the issue of bug escapes to silicon. While there can be domain specific bugs that can not be avoided, Design managers want to capture avoidable bugs and ensure that those bugs are not repeated from design to design. Accordingly design managers have set up design rules, guidelines, checks and reviews. However there is no exhaustive repeatable way to ensure that design has conformed to the rules set up to avoid past mistakes.

Atrenta products and methodologies allow design managers to get an objective measure of closure and conformance of the design at every phase. This gives design managers an objective view of schedule impact areas.