Jennic’s ZigBee IC and Cadence Solution

Cadence announced that Jennic Ltd., a fabless developer of wireless-connectivity solutions, has successfully taped out an embedded ZigBee IC wireless microcontroller with the Cadence Low-Power Solution. The Cadence low-power technology combines RTL synthesis, silicon virtual prototyping, and full-chip implementation from RTL-to-GDSII.

Using this Cadence solution, enabling Jennic’s ZigBee devices to achieve a 30-percent reduction in silicon area and a significant decrease in power consumption for its latest embedded microcontroller device.

The Cadence Low-Power Solution integrates design, verification, and implementation technology with the Si2 CPF  standard. This approach is necessary to manage power consumption in 65nm and 90nm designs.

Source: Cadence