Place-and-Route in Under a Day for Allegro Microsystems

Allegro Microsystems has small, custom digital blocks to implement. By hand, such designs were taking up to three days to complete. With the Virtuoso® Custom Placer and Virtuoso Space-based Router in Cadence's Virtuoso Layout Suite, Allegro cut that place-and-route time down to a less than a day and reduced its block size by 30%. Watch the video to hear what Steve Nedeau, senior IC layout engineer, says about how the tools have made his life easier.