Situation
Teranetics is a leading mixed-signal IC company that develops silicon products for the most advanced communication applications. 10GBASE-T (10 Gigabit Ethernet over copper) chips represent some of the most sophisticated mixed signal designs in existence. The challenge of error correction over copper at these data rates requires very high performance signal processing and all of this has to be achieved within a power envelope that does not compromise system reliability or robustness.
Solution
Teranetics selected CellMath Designer to complement their existing IC design flow to provide the datapath-specific optimization capabilities required to meet their power consumption, performance and area utilization goals. CellMath Designer also produced simulation and formal verification models that significantly reduce the verification time required.
Results
The development of 10GBASE-T arguably represents the most significant technological development for Ethernet this decade. The power, speed and capacity of 10GBASE-T over traditional copper media opens new avenues for networking products designed to deliver on the promise of BASE-T connectivity for a new generation of high bandwidth/high capacity applications. As a leading provider of high-performance, mixed-signal digital semiconductors, Teranetics has introduced the industry’s first single-chip implementation of 10GBASE-T. The TN1010 represents the state of the art in communication system theory and mixed-signal technology.
Client Perspective
"The winners in the 10GBASE-T market will be defined by the highest performance and most power efficient designs. Arithmatica's CellMath Designer enabled our team to significantly reduce overall chip power and reduce datapath area while meeting the throughput requirements in our critical signal processing blocks. In addition, the behavioral models provide an elegant way to formally verify the netlist, easing the verification bottleneck typical in complex signal processing designs."
Sridhar Begur, Vice President, ASIC Engineering, Teranetics
