QUALCOMM is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on CDMA and other advanced technologies.
UMC is a world-leading semiconductor foundry, specializing in the manufacturing of customer designed ICs for advanced semiconductor applications.
Ridgetop Group has a staff of experienced engineers and design tools that provide design services for out-sourced IC designs. These can include analog, digital, mixed signal and power supply designs of varying process nodes of 0.50u down to 90nm.
"Monte Carlo analysis is a 1980's solution and is inadequate for analog and mixed-signal designers who are desiging products in applications built around systems-on-a-chip. Analog and custom designers are seeing the effects of the 90nm and 65nm process variations that are affecting yield loss, performance, power and die area. Designs are failing, which is complicating the detection of the transistor failures. The motivation for using Solido's technology is to ensure that designs are robust. Solido's tools reduce overdesign." - Mary Olsson, analyst, Gary Smith EDA.
"Amit Gupta (CEO) and Trent McConaghy (CSO) founded Solido circa 2005 to target an emerging market opportunity: addressing the analog and custom digital simulation effects due to process variability for complex system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Frankly, we were intrigued to mention Solido Design because of the confluence of analog design at the DFM (design-for-manufacturing) level. Individually, these are among the fastest growing segments in the EDA market, but a market opportunity that combines these attributes for design variability analysis caught our attention and merited additional commentary." - Erach Desai, Principal of Investment Research, America's Growth Capital
"New tools and technologies in the analog market segment are essential to meet the ever-increasing demand for complex analog/mixed-signal designs. Solido Design has assembled a strong founding team with the experience required to bring its product suite to market." - Larry Lam, Director of Technology Seed Investments, BDC Venture Capital.
"Three goals of all design teams are to avoid yield loss and over-design, improve design robustness, and maximize designer productivity. When design teams achieve these goals, semiconductor companies and consumers win because it reduces their costs and gets products to market faster. Solido has produced an elegant solution to address these key areas for transistor-level nanometer designs." - Resve Saleh, NSERC/PMC-Sierra Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of British Columbia
"Our discussions with major Japanese semiconductor companies has validated that Solido is on the forefront of providing technology that addresses emerging challenges in transistor-level design. The combination of our sales, consulting and systems integration services with Solido’s technology will give Japanese customers an unparalleled solution for their analog/mixed-signal and custom digital and memory needs." - Tomio Okachi, President, Aisys Corporation
Solido Design was named on the EE Times list of top emerging startups. "The startups on the Silicon 60 list are the companies involved in semiconductor chips, memory, MEMS, EDA software, embedded applications, foundry manufacturing, semiconductor production equipment, electronics subsystems, packaging and materials that have made an impression on EE Times editors. They are emerging companies to watch — for a wide variety of reasons." - Peter Clarke, EE Times
SolidoSTAT is a finalist for EDN Magazine's 18th Annual Innovation Award. "The annual EDN Innovation Awards honor outstanding engineering professionals and products. The Innovation of the Year award recognizes unique, state-of-the-art electronics products in several categories." - Staff, EDN Magazine
SolidoSTAT was recognized in EDN Magazine's list of Hot 100 Products of 2007. "The list recognizes those products and technologies we chose from our print and Web pages in 2007 that our editors believe generated heat in the electronics community - from analog IC to test-and-measurement devices." - Staff, EDN Magazine
"Prediction is always a risky business, but in the world of chip and system design, there are some new methodologies, tools, and challenges that are clearly going to impact design and verification. In 2007, Solido Design Automation introduced transistor-level statistical design technology that promises new functionality well beyond conventional Monte Carlo simulation." - Richard Goering, Editor, SCD Source
"Based on the innovative results produced with ADA and the experiences gained from their first entry into EDA, the company deserves close attention as they are poised to make a major difference in the transistor level design world." - Pallab Chatterjee, Chip Design Magazine
"Designers will increasingly use statistical variability analysis to maintain reasonable yields on analog and high-peformance digital circuits built on 65nm, and especially on 45nm and below." - Christopher Labrecque, HSPICE Marketing Manager, Synopsys Inc.