LEGEND DESIGN TECHNOLOGY - Company Highlights - Memory Characterization and Circuit Simulation
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Company Highlights
Legend Design Technology, Inc. was founded in October 1996.
The company's core belief is that through innovation and dedication,
we continually develop and provide leading edge solutions
for characterization, simulation, and verification of semiconductor
Intellectual Property (IP). Our EDA tools maximize engineering productivity, enabling SoC design
teams to meet critical time-to-market targets - accurately and economically.
Legend is headquartered at Santa Clara, California
with distributors in Japan, China, Korea and South East Asia.
To forge strong ties with semiconductor foundries across the
world, Legend has formed R&D and support teams in Taiwan.
Markets
For the characterization, simulation and verification of semiconductor IP, Legend's products address the quality and throughput needs of foundries, IP developers, IDMs and fabless design houses.
With regards to deep-submicron and nanometer designs, understanding the impact
of second-order effects - signal integrity, leakage power, glitch
and metastability - on IP performance is crucial. Legend's
characterization and simulation products can completely analyze
the effects to provide a total solution.
Products
Legend's EDA products and solutions include
Semiconductor IP Characterization
- Memory Characterization Tools
CharFlo-Memory!TM
- PLL Characterization Tool
CharFlo-PLL!TM
Circuit Simulations
- High-Accuracy Circuit Simulator
MSIM®
- High-Speed and High Capacity Circuit Simulator
Turbo-MSIMTM
Financing
Legend is a privately held company. The company's first-round
funding (around $5 million) came from venture capitalists, and
several highly regarded professionals in the semiconductor and
electronic design automation (EDA) industries.
Founder
Dr. You-Pang Wei
President & CEO
Dr. Wei has over 20 years R & D and management experience in
memory circuit design and simulation, timing analysis and
layout. He has worked with AMD, Intel, Meta-Software, Performance CAD, and
Mentor Graphics. At Meta-Software, Dr. Wei was the HSPICE chief architect and manager.
He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University,
and a M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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