Defacto Announces a Unified Design Flow to Ensure Coherency Between RTL, UPF, IPXACT and SDC

Grenoble, France, Sunnyvale, CA, May. 06, 2015 – 

Defacto Technologies, the leading provider of RTL platforms that help achieve early design closure, announced today its unique EDA solution to help build a unified design flow that guarantees coherency between multiple languages and standards: RTL, power intent UPF, IPXACT and SDC. The unified design flow will be demonstrated at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) held in San Francisco starting June 1, 2014.

"We continue to help chip designers build robust, extensible and custom design flows at RTL. Beyond our RTL editing and structural verification solution, we will be unveiling at DAC new EDA breakthrough technologies in different areas such as RTL "low power" exploration, IPXACT and SDC support," said Chouki Aktouf, Defacto Technologies co-founder and CEO. "Our unified solution helps SoC designers build coherent and highly maintainable front-end design flows where the construction and the verification of complex RTL designs is automatically linked to different views such as UPF, IPXACT and SDC. With the adoption of Defacto?s EDA unified design flows, key semiconductor companies can truly expect a high degree of maintainability for front-end design flows and drastically decrease engineering costs."

Defacto team will be presenting its solutions at DAC in booth #807. For presentation and demo requests, please contact Defacto at inforeq@defactotech.com.

About DeFacTo Technologies

DeFacTo is an innovative chip design software company developing breakthrough technology to dramatically enhance the DFT process and increase the testability of integrated circuits (ICs) and systems on a chip (SoCs). The development of DeFacTo s technology was begun at the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (INPG-France) in 1997, under the leadership of Chouki Aktouf, PhD. More than 18 man-years of work were applied to the unique technology for moving DFT from a post-synthesis process to pre-synthesis. Dr. Aktouf and his team did the early market assessment and established proof of concept by working with a large European semiconductor manufacturer to validate the benefits of the company s technology.

Dr. Aktouf, Michel Oger, Philippe Duchene, and James Girand founded DeFacTo in August 2003 and the company raised Series A financing in 2004 and 2005. Mr.Oger and Dr. Duchene were founders of Snaketech Corporation, a substrate analysis company acquired by Simplex Solution, Inc. (later acquired by Cadence Design Systems, Inc.); and Mr.Girand has broad executive sales and marketing experience with worldwide electronics companies.

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