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Starting a new complex IC design project is a risky proposition. The stakes have never been higher-development costs will soar into the millions, the project will consume valuable engineers for perhaps 18 months or more, revenue from volume shipments remains years in the future, and the market window is narrow. A misjudgment in the schedule or staffing plan can be disastrous, especially in today's ultra competitive environment. There is little margin for error.

How confident are you in your project plan? How sure are you that the project is staffed adequately to implement the target feature set in the required development time? Today, 89% of all IC projects miss their target schedule, with an average over-run of 44%.

What if you could...

  • Quickly generate reliable schedule and staffing estimate for your project plan based on an accurate, quantitative assessment of your chip's design complexity?
  • Quantitatively analyze and validate with high confidence your project schedule, staffing levels and other key assumptions in your plan?
  • Instantaneously access an Industry Database of over 1200 benchmarked IC projects whose design complexities have been normalized to enable calibration of your project plan against industry norms?
  • Normalize the complexity of your past designs to better predict the staffing and schedule of your next project?
  • Get an early-warning of schedule slip using production-proven tools and methods, to help avert scheduling disasters or over commitments before they happen?

Numetrics gives you precisely the capability to do all that. Based on sophisticated algorithms and statistical models calibrated with the most comprehensive database in the industry, Numetrics' NMX-ERP™ software is an invaluable asset to any semiconductor organization.

Numetrics equips engineering and program managers with tools that deliver an accurate and quantitative perspective on the schedule and staffing decisions they are about to make. Starting with an estimate of the design's complexity, the NMX-ERP software tools approach the problem by modeling the development cycle as a stochastic, or random, process. From there, the tools perform three fundamental tasks: 

  1. Expose inherent risk in schedule and staffing assumptions by benchmarking your project plan against a database of completed projects whose complexity has been normalized for accurate comparison to your particular design.
  2. Allow you to do "fact-based" planning, which complements intuition based on prior project experiences
  3. Perform "what if" project plan simulation, enabling managers to generate a range of different scenarios based on alternative IC product feature sets, staffing constraints and schedule targets.

The Bottom Line: Numetrics' software and services enable semiconductor organizations to achieve unprecedented schedule predictability, which means reliable schedules and minimal, if any, schedule slip. At the same time, managers tap into the Industry Database to ensure that schedule targets are highly competitive. Projects finish on-time, within budget and boast competitive cycle times.

Numetrics offers solutions for:

  1. Developing highly reliable IC development schedules
  2. Accurately measuring IC development schedule risk
  3. Identifying engineering resource shortfalls in the project execution pipeline
  4. Benchmarking and calibrating IC development capabilities
  5. Root cause analysis and data mining of development cycle bottlenecks

You can click on the links on the left of this page to read more about each one of our solutions in more detail.