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LACEedit Draws Fast, Saves Work Flows, Operates in Interactive or Batch Mode

ANAHEIM, CA--June 9, 1997--Design Automation Conference--Rubicad Corp., a supplier of layout tools, announced today that it will ship LACEedit, its new layout editor, next month.

The new editor targets users who are doing designs of 10 million or more transistors. It allows users to filter and view only the part of the layout they are working on in 10 seconds or less. With other tools, this can take minutes.
Rubicad's layout conversion environment, LACE, and LACEedit are used together to automatically correct design rule violations before compaction and conversion. LACEedit is usable stand-alone for new design and design modification.

 "Our goal is to be a leading layout tool supplier," noted, Michael Reinhardt, Rubicad's founder and president, "Our layout editor, LACEedit, expands our product line and gives our customers a tool that they can use for new design, editing legacy designs, and, combined with LACE, for design rule checking and automatic design rule correction."

Reinhardt added, "Our products match up with the needs of intellectual property (IP) users and creators. For example, today's dynamic silicon market makes it important for IC designers to consider alternative silicon technologies and suppliers for their valuable IP, and new designs require implementing a design reuse methodology right from the start."
Like LACE, LACEedit accepts GDSII files as input. It has an autosave mode for saving command flows during interactive execution or for future  batch execution. It also has a programmable data interface for easy integration with existing design environments.

According to one of the first LACEedit users, "The new layout editor gives us the option of using LACE for creating new designs. We can do these quickly and then have LACE check for design rule violations. Using LACE this way, cuts our design time for new devices in half."

About Rubicad's Products:
Rubicad's products are used for layout editing, design conversion and compaction, and design rule checking.
LACE automatically converts existing design layouts for use with new fabs or technologies. Using LACE to convert an existing layout improves time-to-market and allows design and layout engineers to optimize an existing layout for performance, power or area utilization. With LACE, IC layout conversions takes a few hours to setup, and 20 hours of CPU time to automatically convert a typical 50,000 transistor design on a Sun SPARC 20 workstation. Similar manual conversions take several man months. LACE compacts and converts full custom, standard cell and synthesized layouts.

Pricing and Availability:
LACE pricing  starts at $300,000 (U.S.) for Sun UNIX and HP workstations. LACEedit is $19,500 (U.S). UNIX versions ship in July, a Linux version ships in August. LACE and LACEedit are being demonstrated at the Design Automation Conference in Anaheim, Booth number 861.

About Rubicad:
Rubicad Corp., headquartered in San Jose, CA, is a pioneer in developing automatic IC layout conversion software. The company offers layout tools for editing, compacting and converting and checking designs. In addition the company offers layout consulting services.
Customers include: IC manufacturers, IC design centers, semiconductor companies, fabless IC design houses and systems manufacturers.

For information, contact Rubicad Corp., 1150 North First St., Suite 130, San Jose, CA 95112, Tel: (408) 995-3334, Fax: (408) 995-3335, info@rubicad.com.

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