Quick Start™

QuickStart delivers a quantitative assessment of the complexity of the chip design, as well as a reliable initial estimate of the schedule and corresponding staffing requirements needed to meet the desired target market window.

Inputs to QuickStart are those factors having the greatest impact on chip development effort. Project and design managers enter parameters such as process node, frequency target and voltage, together with an estimate of the chip’s gate count, memory, analog content, I/O count and reuse levels. This information is processed by the QuickStart complexity calculation engine and then automatically passed to Project Planner, which generates estimates of project duration and staffing requirements.

The early estimates that the QuickStart-to-Planner solution generates facilitate the critical trade-off decisions facing project managers: Cycle time vs. Staffing-level vs. Chip complexity. The solution also provides for rapid generation of Request-for-Quote responses. Initial input and results can be progressively refined as more detail becomes available during the planning process.