Rio Design Automation Sets Sights on Emerging Package-Aware Chip Design Software Market; Startup Brings Together Experienced Team to Solve Challenge, Raises $5.25 Million from Cadence, Magma, Angel Investors.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Rio Design Automation Inc. today unveiled its plans to be the first electronic design automation (EDA) company to bridge the gap between the design of high-performance integrated circuits (ICs) and packages, and a chip's integration with the rest of the electronic system.

It is developing revolutionary "package-aware chip design(TM)" software to be formally introduced in January 2006 that will allow chip designers to make optimal tradeoffs between the chip layout, wires within the package and printed circuit board (PCB) connections.

"This is a huge problem that has cost many companies millions in chip redesign and, in some extreme cases, a company's collapse," says Kaushik Sheth, Rio Design Automation's...

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